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Oh. What did you say...........Your wife doesn't cook food properly.......Ok.........Lets listen to what Bhagavan has to say.
A Bhakta shares :
When
I was writing to you yesterday about eating popcorn with boiled rice, I
was reminded of another incident. Echamma’s cooking was never very
good; it would not contain vegetables and spices in proper proportions.
To Bhagavan her devotion was more tasty than her preparations and so he
never complained, but some who could not relish the food casually
hinted at this now and then while Bhagavan was cutting vegetables in the
kitchen in the early morning hours. After hearing their complaints
repeatedly Bhagavan said, “I don’t know. If you do not like the food you
need not eat it. I find it quite good and I shall continue to do so.”
Sometime back, she was sending food for about a week or ten days
through someone else because perhaps she was out of town or not quite
well. The cooks one day forgot to serve the food sent by her and
completed serving all other items of food cooked in the Ashram. Bhagavan
who would usually beckon to others to start eating and would himself
commence doing so, sat silently that day with his left hand under the
chin, and his right hand on the leaf. The people there sitting in front
began to look at one another and those in the kitchen, or wondering and
enquiring in whispers about the possible reason.
Suddenly they
remembered that the food sent by Echamma had not been served and, when
they served it saying, “Oh, we have forgotten,” he gave the formal
signal to the others to eat and he too commenced eating the food. It is
usual for him to eat with greater relish the raw groundnuts offered to
him by a devotee than the highly seasoned sweets and puddings offered by
rich people, just as Lord Krishna ate with relish the beaten rice
handed over to him by Kuchela.
Letters from Sri Ramanasramam
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