Baba
This email contains five sections:
1. Posting: Gross Misuse of the Human Body
2. Comments on Baba Story
3. End Quote: Spice That Increases Hunger, And Helps To Enhance Digestion
This email contains five sections:
1. Posting: Gross Misuse of the Human Body
2. Comments on Baba Story
3. End Quote: Spice That Increases Hunger, And Helps To Enhance Digestion
4. PS #3576: Coming and Going, Life and Death, Is Only To Serve
You
5. Links
Namaskar,
Following is an example of how some have cause great harm to themselves - and even brought about their own death - by engaging in eating competitions.
This way of living is a misuse and abuse of one's human potentiality. One has been blessed to receive a human body and it should be used for following bhagavad dharma.
Nowadays in this dark era of extreme materialism, many use their human body as tool of indulgence. This is the sad reality. And when that indulgence is directed towards food, they will literally eat themselves to death and destruction. In that case food becomes a mechanism for ruining their own life. It is quite shocking.
The story does not end there. According to their inherent desire they will again take birth. But it will not be as a human being, but as a pig, bear, bull or some other degraded being, or worse than that. Tragically, that is how one will have to face the consequences.
Read below the tragic example as well as Baba's divine teachings that dictate that those who misuse their human body will take birth in a lesser form in their next life. They will have to suffer the reactions of their misguided desires and lowly thoughts.
When you desire something animalistic then you will get the body of that animal or bug etc. One will be reborn as an animal because the human body is unfit to satiate their chosen desire. For instance, in this example below, a married man and father ruined his existence after eating and ultimately choking on large quantities of sweets that he had stuffed into his mouth. In his next life he may be reborn as a pig or hippopotamus since a human body was incapable or satisfying his desire in that way.
This is an the extreme example - no doubt. But in day to day life, most members of the general society do not use their human body in the right manner for the right cause. Mostly they desire something mundane. That is why, when the moment arises most will not get a human body - let alone moksa.
The annals of gurgitation are dotted with strokes and blocked windpipes, of guts literally busted. Go as far back as you like. The novel The Golden Ass, written around A.D. 200, tells of an ancient food fighter almost choking to death on a piece of cheese. The native Tlingit peoples of Alaska used to hold raucous eating contests at their potlatch feasts; one such bacchanal came to a tragic end when a warrior ate a box full of dried hemlock bark and washed it down with water. According to a turn-of-the-century ethnography of the Tlingit, “This caused the hemlock bark to swell and his stomach to burst.”
As for more recent harms, you can’t top Mort Hurst’s Guinness World Record attempt in 1991. Hurst, a MoonPie-eating champ from North Carolina, suffered a stroke after eating 38 soft-boiled eggs in 29 seconds. He recovered and went on to compete again. Others weren’t so lucky. In 2002, a 14-year-old schoolkid in Japan raced his friends at bread-eating, choked, and died. In 2004, a Japanese housewife choked to death on a wheat-rice cake at a contest in Hyogo prefecture. And in January [2010], a 28-year-old woman in California died of water intoxication after drinking almost two gallons of water in a contest sponsored by a morning radio show. She was trying to win a Nintendo Wii. (Courtesy of Slate.com)
The above example does not exist in isolation. One's thoughts and actions affect not just the present but their future as well. Here following are Baba's teachings that clearly apply to all those who indulge in eating contests - as well as those plunged in other poor habits and lowly thinking.
Yádrshii bhávaná yasya siddhirbhavati tádrshii.
"According to one's desires one gets the fruits thereof. If somebody is a voracious eater and always hankers after food then it is quite likely that after the death of his physical body he may get the body of a pig in the next life. Suppose somebody wants to be a runner like a deer then it is not impossible that he will eventually get the body of a deer after the death of this present human structure." (1)
"One acquires a physical body according to the nature of one's sam'skáras. A human being who behaves like a goat or a dog may be born as a goat or a dog in the next life, because such an animal body is the proper base for the congenial expression of the latent saḿskáras. Hence it is not at all impossible for a human being to be reborn as a hog, a worm, a tree, or even a piece of stone. One's destiny will be decided according to the nature of one's karma – this is an infallible law. In this regard, neither Paramátma nor Prakrti can do anything to help. But Parama Brahma out of His Infinite grace, will reconvert these “Ahalyás” (those converted into stone as a result of crude actions) into glorious human beings in the process of pratisaincara [the introversive movement of the Cosmos], and provide opportunities for their movement towards the most exulted life." (2)
"According to human longings and desires or according to human propensive pursuit, their minds take form i.e., they will gradually acquire the like Saḿskáras or reactive momenta. They first see within themselves what they aspire for and then let their minds flow towards it. Thereafter the external organs i.e., hands and feet, etc., set about achieving it. And so it is generally seen that the desires that they had been giving indulgence to throughout their lives, come hurtling over to them in a condensed form at the last hour, i.e., their mind-stuff takes the like mental form for the last time in order to shape itself into a fitting medium of the like Saḿskáras. Even during the life-time as well it is seen that the mind-stuff of a drunkard, which imbibes within it an indomitable desire or Saḿskára for wine, turns into a vantage ground for undergoing the next Saḿskáras or momenta of pleasure and pain. That is to say, such a person gets scent of the wine shop by the sheer propulsion of his acquired mental propensity, if he happens to go to a new and unfamiliar place. A man who has cultivated dog-like or swine-like desires all his life, dies with the same dog-like or swine-like frame of mind. Thereafter with the help of Prakrti’s Mutative force he acquires the form of a dog or swine in order to undergo the dog-like or swine-like Saḿskáras. The great ascetic, King Bharata, died thinking of a fawn, and that was why it is written in the Puráńas (Indian mythologies) that he had to take the body of a deer at his next birth." (3)
INDULGING IN MEANING THOUGHTS
IS CAUSE OF BEING REBORN AS LOWER SPECIES
"Indulging in mean thoughts only engenders crude vibrations in the Citta, as the result of which you will have to take rebirth in lower species in order to suffer the lowly Saḿskáras created by those crude vibrations. Thus you must arouse higher vibrations in your Citta. Even a man of King Bharata’s calibre had to take rebirth as a deer because at the time of his death he was deeply anxious about a fawn. Thus regardless of what you are at present or what you may possibly become in the future, do not digress from the ideal of the Great in any circumstances: do not stray even a step away from the path of realization of Absolute Bliss. Ananda Marga or the path to eternal bliss is the only path for you." (4)
According to Baba's above directive, those from the eating contests in the case studies will be reborn into that thing which they were thinking about. If at the time of death they were thinking about a bug, insect, or Indian sweet, then after their death they will take that shape and form in their next life. That is the simple formula.
DEGRADATION IS IMPOSSIBLE
IF PARAMA PURUSA IS THE GOAL
"No matter what circumstances you are in, never lose sight of the Infinite One. Degradation is impossible for those who have accepted the Supreme Being as the Ideal of their lives." (5)
Namaskar,
in Him,
Sanjay
The question arises, "Why do human beings do like this?" The response is that they are trying to satisfy their infinite desire with material indulgence. Their desire is to take an infinite amount of food, but alas the body is limited, so they die. Infinite desire can only be satiated by the realisation of Parama Purusa. So long as we are not teaching dharma sadhana to all, this problem will continue.
REFERENCES
1. AV-2, The Difference between Macrocosm and Microcosm
2. AMIWL-7, Form and Formless
3. SS-2, Intuitional Science of the Vedas - 3
4. SS-3, Vibration, Form, & Color
5. SS-3, Vibration, Form and Colour
Baba says, "Black pepper stimulates the secretion of saliva, increases hunger, and helps to enhance digestion. Plus it makes the nerve fibers alert. Furthermore it is a medicine and remedy for lethargy and melancholia."
"If you make a paste by mixing the top layer of milk with black pepper and apply it to the face it prevent acne." (SC-8)
Note: People should also be aware that black pepper, especially coarse grain black pepper, should not be applied directly on the food when one is eating. Rather it should be prepared with the food. That way in the cooking process the black pepper will mix with the water and get distributed evenly throughout the dish. Whereas if one eats raw black pepper directly on their food then it enters the body in a very concentrated form which the body cannot digest. If the black pepper is extremely fine like dust, then one can eat it directly but best is to soak it in water first and then let it sit for a while in a container and then sparingly put that sauce (i.e. pepper water) on your food.
Here are links to hot topics in our Ananda Marga
http://anandamarganewsbulletin.blogspot.com/2014/05/maybe-your-jagrti-mu-land-also-to-be.html
http://anandamarganewsbulletin.blogspot.com/2014/05/amps-news-thief-thief-3-more.html
Here is a link to Baba story referenced in section 3 above:
http://anandamargauniversal.blogspot.com/2014/05/baba-story-fulfilled-my-desire.html
5. Links
GROSS MISUSE OF THE HUMAN BODY
Namaskar,
Following is an example of how some have cause great harm to themselves - and even brought about their own death - by engaging in eating competitions.
This way of living is a misuse and abuse of one's human potentiality. One has been blessed to receive a human body and it should be used for following bhagavad dharma.
Nowadays in this dark era of extreme materialism, many use their human body as tool of indulgence. This is the sad reality. And when that indulgence is directed towards food, they will literally eat themselves to death and destruction. In that case food becomes a mechanism for ruining their own life. It is quite shocking.
IT AFFECTS THEIR NEXT LIFE ALSO
The story does not end there. According to their inherent desire they will again take birth. But it will not be as a human being, but as a pig, bear, bull or some other degraded being, or worse than that. Tragically, that is how one will have to face the consequences.
Read below the tragic example as well as Baba's divine teachings that dictate that those who misuse their human body will take birth in a lesser form in their next life. They will have to suffer the reactions of their misguided desires and lowly thoughts.
When you desire something animalistic then you will get the body of that animal or bug etc. One will be reborn as an animal because the human body is unfit to satiate their chosen desire. For instance, in this example below, a married man and father ruined his existence after eating and ultimately choking on large quantities of sweets that he had stuffed into his mouth. In his next life he may be reborn as a pig or hippopotamus since a human body was incapable or satisfying his desire in that way.
This is an the extreme example - no doubt. But in day to day life, most members of the general society do not use their human body in the right manner for the right cause. Mostly they desire something mundane. That is why, when the moment arises most will not get a human body - let alone moksa.
DYING TO WIN THE CONTEST
The annals of gurgitation are dotted with strokes and blocked windpipes, of guts literally busted. Go as far back as you like. The novel The Golden Ass, written around A.D. 200, tells of an ancient food fighter almost choking to death on a piece of cheese. The native Tlingit peoples of Alaska used to hold raucous eating contests at their potlatch feasts; one such bacchanal came to a tragic end when a warrior ate a box full of dried hemlock bark and washed it down with water. According to a turn-of-the-century ethnography of the Tlingit, “This caused the hemlock bark to swell and his stomach to burst.”
As for more recent harms, you can’t top Mort Hurst’s Guinness World Record attempt in 1991. Hurst, a MoonPie-eating champ from North Carolina, suffered a stroke after eating 38 soft-boiled eggs in 29 seconds. He recovered and went on to compete again. Others weren’t so lucky. In 2002, a 14-year-old schoolkid in Japan raced his friends at bread-eating, choked, and died. In 2004, a Japanese housewife choked to death on a wheat-rice cake at a contest in Hyogo prefecture. And in January [2010], a 28-year-old woman in California died of water intoxication after drinking almost two gallons of water in a contest sponsored by a morning radio show. She was trying to win a Nintendo Wii. (Courtesy of Slate.com)
NOW APPLY BABA'S BELOW TEACHINGS TO THE ABOVE
EXAMPLE
The above example does not exist in isolation. One's thoughts and actions affect not just the present but their future as well. Here following are Baba's teachings that clearly apply to all those who indulge in eating contests - as well as those plunged in other poor habits and lowly thinking.
YOU GET A BODY ACCORDING TO YOUR DESIRE
Yádrshii bhávaná yasya siddhirbhavati tádrshii.
"According to one's desires one gets the fruits thereof. If somebody is a voracious eater and always hankers after food then it is quite likely that after the death of his physical body he may get the body of a pig in the next life. Suppose somebody wants to be a runner like a deer then it is not impossible that he will eventually get the body of a deer after the death of this present human structure." (1)
"One acquires a physical body according to the nature of one's sam'skáras. A human being who behaves like a goat or a dog may be born as a goat or a dog in the next life, because such an animal body is the proper base for the congenial expression of the latent saḿskáras. Hence it is not at all impossible for a human being to be reborn as a hog, a worm, a tree, or even a piece of stone. One's destiny will be decided according to the nature of one's karma – this is an infallible law. In this regard, neither Paramátma nor Prakrti can do anything to help. But Parama Brahma out of His Infinite grace, will reconvert these “Ahalyás” (those converted into stone as a result of crude actions) into glorious human beings in the process of pratisaincara [the introversive movement of the Cosmos], and provide opportunities for their movement towards the most exulted life." (2)
"According to human longings and desires or according to human propensive pursuit, their minds take form i.e., they will gradually acquire the like Saḿskáras or reactive momenta. They first see within themselves what they aspire for and then let their minds flow towards it. Thereafter the external organs i.e., hands and feet, etc., set about achieving it. And so it is generally seen that the desires that they had been giving indulgence to throughout their lives, come hurtling over to them in a condensed form at the last hour, i.e., their mind-stuff takes the like mental form for the last time in order to shape itself into a fitting medium of the like Saḿskáras. Even during the life-time as well it is seen that the mind-stuff of a drunkard, which imbibes within it an indomitable desire or Saḿskára for wine, turns into a vantage ground for undergoing the next Saḿskáras or momenta of pleasure and pain. That is to say, such a person gets scent of the wine shop by the sheer propulsion of his acquired mental propensity, if he happens to go to a new and unfamiliar place. A man who has cultivated dog-like or swine-like desires all his life, dies with the same dog-like or swine-like frame of mind. Thereafter with the help of Prakrti’s Mutative force he acquires the form of a dog or swine in order to undergo the dog-like or swine-like Saḿskáras. The great ascetic, King Bharata, died thinking of a fawn, and that was why it is written in the Puráńas (Indian mythologies) that he had to take the body of a deer at his next birth." (3)
INDULGING IN MEANING THOUGHTS
IS CAUSE OF BEING REBORN AS LOWER SPECIES
"Indulging in mean thoughts only engenders crude vibrations in the Citta, as the result of which you will have to take rebirth in lower species in order to suffer the lowly Saḿskáras created by those crude vibrations. Thus you must arouse higher vibrations in your Citta. Even a man of King Bharata’s calibre had to take rebirth as a deer because at the time of his death he was deeply anxious about a fawn. Thus regardless of what you are at present or what you may possibly become in the future, do not digress from the ideal of the Great in any circumstances: do not stray even a step away from the path of realization of Absolute Bliss. Ananda Marga or the path to eternal bliss is the only path for you." (4)
According to Baba's above directive, those from the eating contests in the case studies will be reborn into that thing which they were thinking about. If at the time of death they were thinking about a bug, insect, or Indian sweet, then after their death they will take that shape and form in their next life. That is the simple formula.
DEGRADATION IS IMPOSSIBLE
IF PARAMA PURUSA IS THE GOAL
"No matter what circumstances you are in, never lose sight of the Infinite One. Degradation is impossible for those who have accepted the Supreme Being as the Ideal of their lives." (5)
Namaskar,
in Him,
Sanjay
Note 1: INFINITE LONGING, LIMITED BODY
The question arises, "Why do human beings do like this?" The response is that they are trying to satisfy their infinite desire with material indulgence. Their desire is to take an infinite amount of food, but alas the body is limited, so they die. Infinite desire can only be satiated by the realisation of Parama Purusa. So long as we are not teaching dharma sadhana to all, this problem will continue.
REFERENCES
1. AV-2, The Difference between Macrocosm and Microcosm
2. AMIWL-7, Form and Formless
3. SS-2, Intuitional Science of the Vedas - 3
4. SS-3, Vibration, Form, & Color
5. SS-3, Vibration, Form and Colour
== Section 2
==
Re: Baba Story: Fulfilled My Desire
Here below are two comments about this recently posted Baba
story. A link to the actual story is appended below. - Eds
Too beautiful this Baba’s story not to be translated into italian
I shall translate it and retransmit [re-post] it on our mailing list
Thanks a lot
Atman
Thanks for sharing beautiful and encouraging gracious stories . it gives stronger feelings.
Too beautiful this Baba’s story not to be translated into italian
I shall translate it and retransmit [re-post] it on our mailing list
Thanks a lot
Atman
---
Thanks for sharing beautiful and encouraging gracious stories . it gives stronger feelings.
Manisha Raipur
== Section 3
==
The section below demarcated by asterisks is
an entirely different topic,
completely unrelated to the above material. It stands on its own as a point of interest.
completely unrelated to the above material. It stands on its own as a point of interest.
***************************************
Spice That Increases Hunger, And Helps To Enhance Digestion
Spice That Increases Hunger, And Helps To Enhance Digestion
Baba says, "Black pepper stimulates the secretion of saliva, increases hunger, and helps to enhance digestion. Plus it makes the nerve fibers alert. Furthermore it is a medicine and remedy for lethargy and melancholia."
"If you make a paste by mixing the top layer of milk with black pepper and apply it to the face it prevent acne." (SC-8)
Note: People should also be aware that black pepper, especially coarse grain black pepper, should not be applied directly on the food when one is eating. Rather it should be prepared with the food. That way in the cooking process the black pepper will mix with the water and get distributed evenly throughout the dish. Whereas if one eats raw black pepper directly on their food then it enters the body in a very concentrated form which the body cannot digest. If the black pepper is extremely fine like dust, then one can eat it directly but best is to soak it in water first and then let it sit for a while in a container and then sparingly put that sauce (i.e. pepper water) on your food.
***************************************
== Section 4 ==
~ Coming And Going, Life And Death, Is Only To Serve You ~
"Toma'rei priyo na'm, tumii parin'a'm, toma'kei niye jato a'sha'..." (P.S 3576)
Purport:
O' Parama Purusa, Your name divine is most dear, most sweet. You are the destination; You are the Goal. The whole creation is revolving around You. Our coming and going, life and death, is only to serve You. Everyone is revolving around You.
O' my Lord, I do not know anything about Your 'cause and effect' theory. This much only I know: that You are the creation, You are the maintenance, and You are the culmination. Baba, You are everything.
By Your grace with the melody of the sound of silence my mind is dancing and revolving around You. That ecstasy is beyond my description - there is no language to describe that bliss. You have graced me. O' Parama Purusa Baba, I do sastaunga pranam at Your lotus feet again and again and again...
"Toma'rei priyo na'm, tumii parin'a'm, toma'kei niye jato a'sha'..." (P.S 3576)
Purport:
O' Parama Purusa, Your name divine is most dear, most sweet. You are the destination; You are the Goal. The whole creation is revolving around You. Our coming and going, life and death, is only to serve You. Everyone is revolving around You.
O' my Lord, I do not know anything about Your 'cause and effect' theory. This much only I know: that You are the creation, You are the maintenance, and You are the culmination. Baba, You are everything.
By Your grace with the melody of the sound of silence my mind is dancing and revolving around You. That ecstasy is beyond my description - there is no language to describe that bliss. You have graced me. O' Parama Purusa Baba, I do sastaunga pranam at Your lotus feet again and again and again...
== Section 5 ==
Links
Links
Here are links to hot topics in our Ananda Marga
http://anandamarganewsbulletin.blogspot.com/2014/05/maybe-your-jagrti-mu-land-also-to-be.html
http://anandamarganewsbulletin.blogspot.com/2014/05/amps-news-thief-thief-3-more.html
Here is a link to Baba story referenced in section 3 above:
http://anandamargauniversal.blogspot.com/2014/05/baba-story-fulfilled-my-desire.html
