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Adjust Everywhere
Eat whatever comes on your plate. That which comes
in front of you is a circumstance and the Lord has said that
if you push away that circumstance, that push will hit you!
That is why, if there are things that I do not particularly
care to eat on my plate, I will eat some of them anyway.
If I do not eat them, then there will be a problem with two
entities. One, with the person who brought it, who cooked
the food, a problem will arise with them; they will feel
contemptuous rejection. And the other, with the food item
itself. The food item will protest, “What fault have I done?
I am being offered to you, so why are you insulting me?
Take as much as you want, but do not insult me!” Should
you not show some respect to it? If someone gives me
something that I do not like, even then I will respect it.
This is because, to begin with, the food that is offered to
you does not come easily, so when you get it, you should
give it respect. When the food item is offered and you find
fault in it, does your happiness increase or decrease? You
should not engage in business that reduces your happiness,
should you? Many times, when there is a vegetable I do not
like, I eat it, and then I even say, “Today’s vegetable was
very nice.” Oh, many times when there was no sugar in the
tea, even then I have not said anything. So people say, “If
you do this, then everything in the home will become spoiled.”
I tell them, “Just wait and see tomorrow!” Then, the next
day, she says, “There was no sugar in the tea yesterday. Why
didn’t you say anything to me?” I tell her, “What is the need
for me to say anything? You will find out, won’t you? If
you did not drink tea, then I would need to tell you. You
drink it, so what is the need for me to tell you?”
Questioner: But there is so much awareness one has
to maintain moment-to-moment!
Dadashri: Every moment, awareness twenty-four