So now I am going to speak just briefly about the most important of all the aspects of eating. That is the spiritual aspect. We spend all our attention on our material life, and indeed it is important, but nothing in comparison to our spiritual life which we neglect almost exclusively. So in relation to food, no matter if you are vegetarian, you still will...
More2. THREE TYPES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
So now you are a vegetarian, and you have greatly reduced your karma. But still the vegetarian food is filled with karmic reaction also because killing is still involved. And most people would just come to a dead end, “Oh, what do I do now? I have to eat. I eat, I create karma, and this karma keeps me on the wheel of birth and death. And I still have to...
More3. RELATIONSHIPS
So it is all about the relationship. So what we are trying to do in bhakti yoga is develop that devotional attitude toward our relationship with God. And we have to eat to live, so our eating can be a very big part of the development of the relationship. So that is why instead of sitting down, “Nice dinner. Thank you, God”, and then eating… there...
More4. PROCESS OF PURIFYING AND HELP TO OTHERS
And that removes all the karma. There is no karma now. Can you see the difference? You cannot see the difference, it looks the same, cabbage and cabbage. What is the difference here? But it is karmically free now. And also you will now find it becomes spiritually purified. Now it is full of spiritual potency. You eat that and not only there is no karma but...
More5. QUESTIONS
All right, she has a question. Question: I prepared some food, offered it to Krishna, and put it into the refrigerator. Then I took it out later, and I needed to heat it again. When it was heated for the second time, does this food lose its qualities or do they remain? Do I need to offer it to Krishna again? Answer: No, they remain. Question: What if I...
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