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Statistics say that nearly 70 million people all over the globe are facing the music of eating disorders. 1 in 5 females are suffering from such disordered eating. What more, around 24 millions of Americans are fighting tooth and nail with this problem!
So, you can see it’s just an unchecked eating approach or undisciplined practice! It’s indeed an epidemic, which has swept away the present day bustling and faddish society. Symptoms are quite apparent– Acidity! Gastroenteritis! Frequent cramps! Upset stomach! Dyspepsia! Obesity!
Really, if Shakespeare had to write a novel in the present era, he would have posed a different gridlock situation: ‘What to eat, what not to eat?’ Also, ‘When to eat, when not to eat?’
Is there a key to this behavioural lock? …Indeed there is!
Spiritual Pill for Eating Disorders
Patient: Swami ji, why eating disorder? Obesity?...
Swami: Dear, only two bases are there– ‘Lack of self-control’ and ‘Unstable intellect’! Lord Krishna says– “Those who are deluded and cling to sensual pleasures have misled intellect. They lack: ‘Vyasayatmika buddhi’. They are not established in the self with concentrated fixity.” (Gita- 2/44)
Patient: But Swami ji, I can’t help. I unconsciously get pulled to the yummy foodstuffs; get deluded by personal and social conditionings.
Swami: That’s exactly the symptom of two above-mentioned spiritual ailments.
Patient: Any cure?
Swami: Sure! ‘Yogastha kuru karmani sang tyaktva’ (Gita 2/48)– Being fixed in Yoga and having abandoned all attachments, do thy actions.
Patient: What’s Yoga?
Swami: It’s the divine union of lower self to the higher one!
Patient: How to accomplish this union?
Swami: For union, foremost condition is to have face-to-face encounter between the ‘self’ of both order: lower and higher. Let your lower self commune with your higher self through meditation (based on Brahm Gyan).
Patient: Come on, Swami ji! Just a petty eating disorder and such an outsized pill– Brahm Gyan! Perception of higher Self! Are you kidding?
Swami: That’s another delusion! Eating disorder is not a petty one। The rasa/raga of taste is the most difficult roadblock to crossover. The Lord says– ‘Rasa varjam rasoayasya param drishtva nivartaty,’ meaning by, ‘rasa’ ceases only when Supreme (Higher Self) is seen or perceived. And, on perceiving the Higher Self, once you get tuned to it– you are bestowed with higher intellect and stronger Will-power to say ‘No!’ for whatever and whenever required.
