The other saints who were under Rishi Agastya’s guidance asked him the ways through which he survived the demonic traps. Rishi Agastya emphasized the quality of the food taken through all the sensual openings. The saints felt unsatisfied with the explanation. They believed that their colleagues, their Guru and, they consumed the same quality of food.
Rishi Agastya presented the illustration based on the event when Parshurama Ji appeared in the court of King Janak and questioned Rama for snapping the giant bow into two. Instead of Rama, Lakshmana replied sternly, saying that Rama merely touched the bow and the bow broke into two fragments. Parshurama Ji stood erect with his active farsa, the divine weapon. Lakshmana doubted Parshurama Ji’s logical abilities. He said that an odd number divided by two yielded a remainder as one, irrespective of the greatness of the number. Similarly, Parshurama Ji could abolish the physical body of Lakshmana but could not stir him from being an ageless remainder, the Shesh of the underworlds.
Lakshmana Ji didn’t portray his ego before Parshurama Ji but merely taught us the impermanence of the physique. Parshurama Ji was the incarnation himself. He enacted the drama to protect the sun of dawn, Rama (as he was not omnipresent Rama before the exile). Parshurama Ji was the sun of mid-noon, the giant spot impenetrable to be faced. At that moment, the entire court of King Janak stood breathless. If Parshurama Ji had not come, Rama would have had to face several queries of the world.
Rishi Agastya continued explaining the basic queries of other saints. He gave another example. Rishi Agastya asked the saints about the experience when they used to consume the food prepared by their mothers. The saints rejoiced, remembering the buried memories. Rishi Agastya asked them the reason behind the drastic differential differences between the delicacies prepared by their mothers and the same by other mothers. Rishi Agastya answered the query on their behalf.
He said that a mother could instill positive charges in food preparations, but the same mother didn’t feel a motherly move for another child. The minutest vibrations altered the pharmacodynamics of the same meal. The same porridge prepared by the mother and by a cook in a restaurant produced variegated effects in the body. The cook might think of boozing in the bar while preparing the meals and thus, instill the same charges in the food. The consumer had to face the aftermath. Even, a sweet prepared by the mother and that in a wedding party instilled a plethora of passions in the consumers.
Rishi Agastya said that the practicing saints didn’t go in the foody observances over the death of a beloved. People considered the abolition of the late-existent soul, but in reality, the soul was imperishable. The food prepared by the cooks with unstable minds instilled instability in the minds of the consumer.
The true saints collected raw cereals and grains in alms, mixed the mess, and prepared a porridge. They never collected cooked food. The food prepared under the force of positive thoughts imparted good health to the consumer.
The saints felt convinced with the explanation.
