When I was a kid I use to say mom where is God, I do not believe in God if I cannot see him and I gave her lot of troubled sleep because of that. She would take me to temples, ask me to read holy scriptures, give me rosary and I would say, i believe in you because you are there, so I can chant your name on the beads but she said just say MAA..do not say mom…anyway..poor mom…when I grew up and started learning about this world I realized that every one has own beliefs in God and he is taking every shape and every form, whatever shape or form we want to give him and in India we have personified everything as a God like sun/moon/mountains/rivers and so on. So what is God then…I wondered and ask…everything and everyone what is God and I said God please tell me who are you…then then I felt..he is everything we see and everything we dont see…so you need to realize God..if he has created everything then everything is him…like parents create their children and they live through their progeny..so everything is God…and once you realize God..then you see him in true sense in everything and every being…and after that if someone asks if you have seen God..yes I have seen..I see you so I see God..I am sure God is no different..he is what this whole Universe is…you just realize him and then you see him everywhere.
It is your duty to take care of this body as you are incarnated into it and that is why it is a temple, but taking care does not mean you start identifying with this body, you are just a care taker. If you identify with this body, then you lose the consciousness of who you are. If you go beyond taking care and indulge, you are going against the law of nature.
Everybody who is incarnated in this Human body even God like Krishna has to go thru pains of this body..but to suffer or not depends on you. Whatever is given to you, you are suppose to take care of that, even this body. Fasting is to cleanse this body not as a prayer to God. If you take care of this body as a priest takes care of temple, and keep it always clean and don’t indulge then its always a fast. Its not a ritual, its a way. So do not indulge. If you do not take care of this body as your temple and place of worship, it starts rejecting you sand you suffer from health problems. Fasting is done so that you can learn to be in discipline and eat with discipline, for this body, if you always stay in discipline and eat only what you need and you do not indulge, you do not need fasting.
Temples are made so that, you can know that there is a presence or else in the illusion of self, you may forget who you really are and you would get further illusioned. If you realise light, every place is a temple for you as light is everywhere then. Once your duality with light dissolves, you will be a part of light and your body will become a complete temple for you.
Everything is of God and every place is of God. You cannot waste anything on the name of God or pollute anything. Just because it has the picture of God, does not mean that it becomes more of God. However, you cannot treat anything less also thinking it does not have picture or touch of God because it has the presence of God. Like on the name of God if you are sending things in the river, you are polluting rivers, however, if you make your faith strong that God is everywhere and everything belongs to God, then you will not have to get into the ritual of sending ashes after cremation in the river to feel that you are sending them to God. If you find is presence in everything and at every place, then , wherever you burry them would reach to God. You need to realise God in its absolute form and every place and everything is God then.
Everything which is prepared with love and for the purpose of spreading love will be flowing with positive energy and will always taste good that is why when a Prasad is prepared it always tastes good. If you get that feeling in everything you prepare with your wholeness, then everything will become Prasad and will be good in taste. When a food is prepared with the negative thoughts in mind like with the thoughts of jealousy/lackness, it will pass on the same negative energy in food and you will not be benefited from that food as you will be eating negative energy. It might taste good as it is prepared with the formula but it will not give you contentment.
