Does a man eat meals?It is said & taught that whatever you have as meals is important in running the life of a person.

To day I am going to show you the reality behind this “eating meals”.

Look at this picture!

A man is eating rice.

Does a man eat rice? Your answer will be “yes, he does”

To day I am going deep to show you what actually happening here is?

As you already know, a man is a combination of 2. The body & the mind. Otherwise even a dead body can eat rice. Body is the one that develops due to 4 types of food which we do not mention here due to elongation of the letter (you can read my first “Wisdom “article) & the mind gets the feeling of it.

When we think of the body, the body does not know that you are eating rice or any other meal nor does it feel the taste.it is inanimate like a dead body & added mind is the one giving you the taste. The mind is the one that takes….

1. Vision of rice.

2. Smell of rice.

3. Taste of rice.

4. Tactile sensation of rice.

5. Added thinking about the rice.

Here, you have a question. The mind gets only the feeling as mentioned above, but the action of the eating process is carried out by the body with the help of the mind that is inside.

So, think a bit now!

The mind itself can not handle the food or rice. What it does is letting the body in to an action to get only the feeling of it. The mind of an every creature is doing the same job as mentioned above.

So, the body grasps food.

The mind senses sensations.( the mind does not have a mouth to put tasty food inside.)

Whatever the tasty food, like divine meals, you take; the mind gets only the feeling of it. The mind can not do anything beyond this. THAT’S WHY THE LORD BUDDHA HAS SAID THAT THE LIFE MEANS THE FEELING OF 5 SENSES WITHOUT A MAN & nothing more than that.

The life at any one moment is an eruption of ONE of the 6 senses seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, sensing tactile or thinking.

Is there anything more for you to point out? Whatever you do means, you make one feeling out of 6, at a time. If you see this, the life is this much of simple & nothing to worry.

Read the PRETHA VATTU PRAKARANAYA, here you have enough stories of how some PRETHAS eat meals. There the Buddha has said that how they eat meals & what they do is ONLY THE SENSING MEALS.( The hunger means the body aches due to lack of meals)

Now, tell me, is there any difference between the man & the PRETHAS in meal taking? Not only them but the whole creatures of the universe have the same reality of meal taking. That is….

They SENSE THE EATABLES. That’s all.

Thank you!