Most of us think that we eat mainly to nourish the body and keep it fit and healthy. In fact, the food we eat plays a much greater role in our lives because it influences the way we think, feel, act and react every moment. It affects our faculties and behaviour. As many of us are aware, the food we eat has three qualities – inertia or tamas, aggressiveness or rajas and purity or satva. If we eat satvic food, it increases the purity in us. When our internal state is pure or satvic, we grasp things very easily and learning is instantaneous. When we eat tamasic food, our power of comprehension becomes very clouded and we find it extremely hard to accept and assimilate new concepts. When we are rajasic, we are apt to go off at a tangent and lack the ability to identify or resolve the salient issues in any situation. So our inner state of being depends on the food we eat as well as the company we keep and the efficiency and effectiveness of our outer actions depends on our inner state of being. To put it in a nutshell, “what goes in is literally what comes out.” This is the absolute truth. When liquor is imbibed, what comes out is slurred speech. When meat goes in, what comes out is insensitivity to another’s pain. If we put a person who eats satvic food and another who doesn’t into the same traumatic situation, what happens? The rajasic or tamasic person will not even think of praying for the intervention of Divine Grace. His sluggish or aggressive reaction will aggravate the situation and make it more traumatic. The satvic person, on the other hand, will immediately surrender to God and seek Divine help. Then the traumatic situation is instantaneously resolved and passes by harmlessly. So the kind of food you eat decides what kind of person you are and how you shape your life.
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