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Dear friends,

"All this world is verily "annam", Food" -- is a
famous saying from the sacred Upanishads. Most of you
know exactly what the old wisecrack, "Money makes the
world go around" is meant to convey. If one were to
paraphrase it and say instead, "Food makes the world
go around", one would get a true, although less than
full measure of the profundity of the Upanishadic
statement.

         "annAdvai prajA prajAyantE
           yAh kAscha pruthiveem srithAh
          athO annae-naiva jeevanti
           athaina-dapiyan-yant-tathah:

         annagum hi bhUtAnAm jyEshtam...

         annAd bhUtAni jAyantE 
         jAtAn annEna vardantE...."
                 
             (Taittiriya Upanishad: "Anandavalli")

  (meaning):  

          "Know this to be truth: 
          Everything that lives was born from Food
          lives on Food
          and in the end,
          shall merge into Food!
  Food is verily the greatest amongst all Creation!"

                **************

If you take a moment to look all around you, you will
see at once that all this world runs on Energy -- from
motor-cars and airplanes to air-conditioners, toasters
and cell-phones. And all the energy needed to run the 
world is generated by a precious thing called "fuel".
Without "fuel" -- whether fossil, thermal,
hydro-electric, wind or nuclear -- without fuel, even
the best model to roll out of a Cadillac assembly-line
in Detroit is little more than gleaming metal junk.

Planet earth has about 6.5 billion human beings. In
much of their normal functioning, be it plain
locomotion, strenuous manual work or great creative
thinking, human beings are not unlike machines. They
need "energy" too -- "prANa" and lots of lots of it.
Humans need to guzzle energy just to be able to simply
carry on in life. What generates this "prANic energy",
the Upanishad says, is "annam", Food. A human being
with no "prAni-c" fuel inside to energize him/her is
just about as worthless as a Cadillac with no fuel in
the tank. One is just beautifully engineered junk
while the other is biologically evolved junk.

                  ***********
               (to be continued)

Rgds,

dAsan,
Sudarshan






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