Eating Like
You Should
My good
friend, Akhilananda, drove up from Salem ,
Ohio
We did then go
for some delicious Krishna food called
prasadam at Govinda’s. Eating time is perhaps time-out for feeling gratitude. I
was reminded of some excerpt from the book “The Higher Taste”.
“Walking
through a supermarket, people may forget a very basic fact of nature- it ‘s not
mom but God who makes food. There’s something mystical about the way food
grows. You put a tiny seed in the ground. It sprouts, and by the mysterious
life force within it a food factory arises - a tomato plant producing dozens of
tasty red tomatoes, an apple tree producing bushels of sweet apples. No team of
scientists anywhere has yet invented anything as amazing as the simplest green
creation of God.”
On the menu
was a squash soup; a lovely lentil dish called sambara; kofta, a veggie ball
set in tomato sauce; aloo gobi, which is an unforgettable potoato/cauliflower
curry; matar paneer, a cheese and pea combinations; basmati rice; veggie
fritters known as pakora; and a flat bread called chapatti as well as other items.
It all went
down well before the stomach got a chance to hurt.
Not too much
of anything right?
Let’s
familiarize ourselves with the well-known verse from the Gita, “If one offers
Me with love and devotion a leaf, a flower, fruit or water, I will accept it.”
May the Source
be with you!
8 km
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