To seek love in food is to relapse into emotional babyhood

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that are Hare Krishna to seek love in food is to relapse into emotional babyhood when we were infants in our mother’s arms now for a baby mother’s milk represents not just nutrition but also affection now mother’s love streams through the milk flowing from her breast as she holds us lovingly to her bosom now we may not have any conscious remembrance of the truths of that breast feeding experience but subconsciously its effect lingers in the form of our often viewing food as not just a source of nutrition but also affection so we see food as something that will provide us not just bodily nourishment but also emotional satisfaction and that’s why when people are depressed, people are rejected they often turn to food for comfort now actually there is a huge food marketing industry that is out to exploit our craving for comfort through food the commercialization of food divorces food from the affection of the food giver now often food commercial food is just sold over is sold over a table or a desk or served in a table where there is very little if any affection between the giver and the receiver its just a financial transaction and often we may buy that food and then eat it in the privacy of our room where people say eat potato chips while watching some movies or something like that now such food that is divorced from any relationship or any affection that can at best provide some titillation it does not provide any affection to us and the titillation and because people need people are looking for affection based on their subconscious memory of getting affection through food in their infancy they may keep eating more and more hoping that somehow I will get some affection and actually they get nothing but affliction what they get is obesity and so many other diseases they become food addicts now food addiction the gravity its reality and its gravity can be seen from a sheer scary number of people all over the world suffering from obesity and all its associated health hazards so the error here is actually seeking affection in something which does not have affection so of course it is not that our longing for affection is unnatural or it has to be given up we need to what happens is each time when we seek affection we actually seek affection in food we actually end up falling to relapsing to emotional babyhood why because we are doing what we were what we had done or what we are doing to experience what we had experienced in our babyhood now we have grown up physically but we may not have grown up emotionally of course our emotional capacity has grown up but still we always run the risk of relapsing back to emotional babyhood by seeking love in food and how do we prevent such a relapse now we need to expand our love further to encompass the spiritual especially the supreme spiritual reality Krishna, God who is the reservoir of all affection when we connect with Krishna through love through the practice of bhakti yoga which is a time honored process for spiritualizing our love then we experience profound affection satisfaction, protection all the love that we experienced in our mother’s milk and her embrace we can experience all that and much more in Krishna’s shelter and especially in his loving remembrance so when life disappoints us at that time instead of seeking relief in food we can seek relief in the remembrance of Krishna now as mentioned actually the satisfaction from food comes not just because of its taste but also because of the love of the giver of that food so bhakti yoga is so all encompassing that it doesn’t ask us to reject food or to reject even the pleasure that comes from food it provides the facility to spiritualize that by giving us the insight to connect food with its original source now food comes purchasing it from a particular shop here and there but food ultimately comes from nature and nature comes from Krishna so we can see food as an expression of Krishna’s affection for us and seeing this we can offer the food back to him with affection and the bhagavata explains bhagavata actually urges us to enter into this vision of love this loving vision of food when it tells in 9.26 so Krishna says that even if you offer me very simple food such as a leaf, a flower, a fruit or water, I’ll accept it and in this way we can actually enter into a loving exchange with Krishna so we don’t have to give up our longing for shelter or even our longing for pleasure we just need to spiritualize it and food if we see it as an expression of Krishna’s affection for us and then we offer the food to him and take the sanctified remnants, then through that food we’ll get the shelter of Krishna and that shelter will be enduring it will never disappoint us it will forever shelter and protect us. Thank you.
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