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Chapter 38: Baba's Cooking Pot
Shirdi Sai Baba
English - September 02, 2019 17:00 - 19 minutes - 17.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsSpirituality Religion & Spirituality miracle sri sai satcharitra shirdi sai baba shirdi baba sai baba monika penukonda taylor monika taylor monika penukonda spirituality enlightenment Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Different sadhanas are prescribed in the scriptures for different ages. Tapas (austerities) is recommended for the Krita age, jnana (knowledge) for the Treta age, yajna (sacrifice) for the Dwarpara age, and dana (charity) for the Kali (present) age. Of all the charities, giving food is the best one. We are very disturbed when we do not get food at noon. Other beings feel the same way under these circumstances. Knowing this, he who gives food to the poor and hungry is the best donor or charitable person. The Taittiriya Upanishad says, “Food is Brahma. From food all creatures are born, and having been born, by food they live, then having departed, into food again they enter.” When an uninvited guest comes to our door at noon, it is our duty to welcome him by giving him food. Other kinds of charities, like giving away wealth, property and clothes require some discrimination but in the matter of food no such consideration is necessary. Let anyone who comes to the door at noon be served immediately. If lame, crippled, blind or diseased indigents come, they should be fed first and then the able bodied persons and relations afterwards. The merit of feeding the former is much greater than that of feeding the latter. Other kinds of charity are imperfect, but anna dana (giving food) is the most meritorious. ...Listen to the full recording of Chapter Thirty-Eight today!
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