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Dadashri’s Awareness While Eating Or Sleeping
What do I do while I am eating? It takes long to eat. I
eat little. I do not talk to anyone while I am eating. There is full
focus on whatever I am eating. I am able to chew my food and
so I chew it. I do not get absorbed in the taste, I am simply
aware of it. People derive pleasure from the taste and get carried
away by it, whereas I am just aware of it. Certain subtle tastes
are released in the food and I am an observer of these tastes.
I know very subtle tastes of the food.
If someone were to cover me with a blanket on a cold
night, I would remove it partially. The cold or an occasional
cough will keep me awake during the night. Therefore I can
remain in the awareness of the Self.
For years, no matter how sick I am, or regardless of
what happens the night before, I get up exactly at 6:30 AM. It
is 6:30 when I get up, but in reality I have not slept at all. The
vidhis take me about two and half hours every night. The satsang
goes on until 11:30 PM and I go to bed at midnight. I do not
take the pleasure of sleep or any worldly happiness.
Even The Shop Bows Down To This Vitarag
In America, mahatmas take me to shopping malls. ‘Lets
go Dada’, they would say. Even the shop itself ‘bows down’ to
me and says, ‘This is amazing, behold this man who does not
want anything from us, and has not shown the slightest trace of
desire’. I look at the merchandize in the shop but I am never
tempted by anything, because nothing there is of use to me. You
would be tempted, would you not?
Questioner : One buys what is necessary.
Dadashri : Yes. I do not get tempted but at the same
time I do not shun anything either. I have neither likes or dislikes