pawan_kr wrote:Why all BKs do not eat food made by others ?
Are their mind or will power so weak that they could be spoiled by eating food prepared by other even daughters or daughter-in-laws?
If yes, then what's the use of Yoga, as we know that Yoga or meditation makes a person’s will power strong.
is this to make feel that they are superior than others?
Pawan - yes, it is often the case that idealogues of any exclusive truth set up 'standards' that appear to reinforce their high ideals and puritanical beliefs but at the same time can contradict other ideals and beliefs. i agree its primarily works to reinforce "superiority" and creates a self-fulfilling prophecy (e.g. they feel guilty if they eat non-BK food, and that feeling of guilt is disturbing, which only proves the spiritual stage is lowered by eating non-BK food!)
I remember, when I was a pukka BK pale excuse of a panther, asking a very Senior Sister what I should do at my workplace where the tea mugs were often filled with cigarette ash and mixed with meaty food scraps in the kitchen area etc. Should I take my own cup in, but that would likely not be respected and used in the same way...
Her answer was "but you are transforming the world with your Yoga power, can you not purify one teacup with your thought power?" Too right! I thought - and proceeded to wash the cups well, rinse with boiling water from the kettle (because bad vibes die at 100 degrees celsius) then "dristi" the cup for 30 seconds to give it that special Finish shine. Then make my drink.
Needless to say, this principle was not applicable to those who give such advice, some kept & used their own dedicated cutlery, plate, bowl and cup in their bhavans or centres, so as not to be contaminated by other BKs! (or maybe to not contaminate others with their foolishness?) - and some, when they travelled, took their eating utensils with them (even cutlery needs a holiday sometime).
Also as you might have guessed, such things come and go like fads, appearing and disappearing in certain places, like a mexican wave at the football game of life, such "standards" rise and fall having no effect on the actual game, being important momentarily and only for the participants.
That Senior Sister's double standards (at best) with her advice to me was strongly revealed when she even refused to eat food prepared specially for her by a BK centre in charge (only a so-called "Brother" it seems) a meal he'd meticulously prepared with specially bought best ingredients and formally offered as Bhog in seated meditation as BKs do. It was obviously accepted by the Baba as it was still there when the Bhog cloth was removed, but it was rejected by the so-called Senior Sister.
Mind you, it is seen in general society as well, where fad 'special diets" find otherwise "normal" people rejecting perfectly good healthy food offered by a host they accepted an invitation from to a meal, pulling out their plastic container of some leftover slop which they find preferable to (even often specially prepared for them) freshly made food, "just in case" there's something in it - even when they are told specifically that it is not the case and their needs were considered.
Give me a happy, intelligent, good-natured garlic-munching meat-eater dirty Shudra for company over a meal anyday than those many BKs who've become such grumblebum "misery guts" over food issues - and other things. Crabby,resentful, passive aggressive, unappreciative (indirectly cursing others for not being to their standard and making them HAVE TO take such extraordinary embarrassing steps).
A happy, healthy, intelligent, good natured vegetarian non-garlic munching pantherette would be even more appreciated . Must be lean but not mean, 5'6" or taller. See my ad in the BK.info new dating service pages.