Sunday, July 10, 2011

What does God eat?

Went to a temple with a friend, on the way back we were talking about a few things when my friend, simply, very casually, very lightly asked me a question - “Does God eat? What does God eat?”
My first answer at that moment was “Prayers”. Have been thinking about it and with every minute things are getting more and more connected.
We keep offering fruits, coconuts, sweets etc to God because from our limited understanding of physical world, these things are supposed to give nourishment. But what we don’t get is that these objects are created by God. How could something created by God possibly satisfy His hunger?
But there is one thing, just one thing that was not created by God. That one thing is “Prayer”. He has created everything else in the world, but the one thing which we have created as humans is "Prayer"
If we had to go all the way back into the history of humankind, I’m sure the very first prayer was either a word of gratitude or a desire communicated to a higher power.
Just like we feel happy, full and satisfied after eating our food, same is with God. He feels happy, full and satisfied at a place where there is prayer.
You might ask: “Okay, So like we become weak without food and can probably die when we don’t get food for long enough, do you mean even God will become weak if he doesn’t get prayer?”
God doesn’t become weak my dear, but yes, the presence of God definitely becomes weak. And when the presence of God becomes weak, we see more bad, sadness, troubles in that place.
Let’s say you don’t have a pet, there is this dove which comes to your balcony everyday and eats the grains which you keep for it. One day you don’t keep the grains, the dove will come and wait. Don’t keep the grains for the next day, the dove will still come and wait. Do this long enough and the dove will stop coming.
Let’s Forget the dove, if your own mother doesn’t give you food everyday but your aunt gives you food, you will start eating at the aunt’s place.
If there is prayer in the house, God comes. If there is no prayer in the house, God waits there, if it’s still not there, he just goes to the place where he finds prayer.
This is the reason why in the old times God was there in every house but today he is restricted to staying in temples only. Because that is where he gets undiluted prayers, less of negative and more of positive.
You might ask: “Okay, agreed that God goes where he finds prayer, but then why is it that in some houses even after praying for so many years, there is no happiness. It feels like God doesn’t want to come there?”
If I had to give you a bowl full of green chillies to eat, would you eat? If I add one heaped spoonful of sugar to the bowl of chillies and give, now would you eat it?
Check the house, chances are that the number of people not praying in the house, number of people jealous, fighting, complaining, cribbing in the house is greater than the number of people offering prayers in the house. How do you expect this to work out?
All of us have had glimpses of our prayers being answered almost magically, look back and see, those were probably the most sincere ones.
My ultimate growth would be if I could get Him to come and stay with me forever on the strength of my prayers...

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