Video Information: Month of Awakening, 25.06.2019, Naukuchiatal, India <br /><br />Context:<br /><br />~ What is the real intention behind a real teacher's saying?<br />~ How should one understand a teacher?<br />~ How can one come to see the truth?<br />~ How to avoid self-deception and bring inner honesty into life?<br />~ How to understand Khalil Gibran's philosophy?<br /><br />Music Credits: Milind Date<br />~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br /><br />EATING AND DRINKING<br />Then an old man, a keeper of an inn, said, Speak to us of Eating and Drinking. <br />And he said: <br />Would that you could live on the fragrance of the earth,<br /> and like an air plant be sustained by the light. <br />But since you must kill to eat, and rob the newly born of its mother’s milk to <br />quench your thirst, let it then be an act of worship. <br />And let your board stand an altar on which the pure and the innocent of forest <br />and plain are sacrificed for that which is purer and still more innocent in man. <br />When you kill a beast say to him in your heart: <br />‘By the same power that slays you, I too am slain; and I too shall be consumed. <br />‘For the law that delivered you into my hand shall deliver me into a mightier <br />hand. <br />‘Your blood and my blood is naught but the sap that feeds the tree of heaven.’ <br />And when you crush an apple with your teeth, say to it in your heart: <br />'Your seeds shall live in my body, <br />‘And the buds of your tomorrow shall blossom in my heart, <br />‘And your fragrance shall be my breath, <br />‘And together we shall rejoice through all the seasons.’ <br />And in the autumn, when you gather the grapes of your vineyard for the wine-<br />press, say in your heart: <br />‘I too am a vineyard, and my fruit shall be gathered for the wine press, <br />‘And like new wine I shall be kept in eternal vessels.’<br /><br />#acharyaprashant #khalilgibran #truth #honesty
