The Masters of Wisdom - Sublime Beings - 16 : Cooperation with the Devas - 2

🌹 The Masters of Wisdom - Sublime Beings - 16 🌹

🌴 Cooperation with the Devas - 2 🌴

✍️ Master E. Krishnamacharya

📚. Prasad Bharadwaj

🌻.  Children of Day and Night 🌻

In Eastern scriptures, it is explained that the creator made children of day and night: the divine devas and the evil asuras. 

The forces of light have the quality of balance while the forces of darkness are aggressive and constantly attempt to get the upper hand. 

These apparent contrasts, however, are complement to each other; and, on the spiritual path, we strive for yogic poise. 

Thus, we must constantly be careful not to be distracted by other thoughts, but to actually put our good intentions into action. 

Devas as well as asuras receive their power through our actions. We should not look for them in the external, but internally. 

When we know that potatoes do us no good, but we eat a big portion French fries with ketchup, the devas withdraw from the digestive tract, and we develop a stomach ache. 

The devas stay away until we change our behavior. When the system is disrupted even more, the devas do not return at all, and we must think of a transplant.

The devas of the senses, like the sense of smell, hearing, taste, and the visual sense, suffer when we behave irresponsibly. 

They are happy when we behave appropriately and care for them. The scriptures say that eating is a sacrifice to the devas. 

It is a fire ritual in which the mouth is the fire altar from where the food is transmitted to the digestion in order to be burned. 

The devas of the body are happy and support our health when we offer them nutrition which suits them energetically. 

We should remember that when we eat and only take the amount that is needed. A prayer goes like this: “I am thankful to the Lord for the food made available. 

I offer this food to the Lord of Fire, for his distribution to the devas within the body. May the Lord be pleased. May the devas be pleased with this act of mine.”

Sources used: K.P. Kumar: Agni. The Symbolism and the Ritual of Fire / notes from seminars. E. Krishnamacharya: Lessons on Purusha Sooktam.

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