25 Aug 2021
[A spiritual conversation took place in Hyderabad on 23-08-2021 and was attended by a number of devotees. Some of the flashes of spiritual knowledge that were radiated from Śrī Datta Swami are given below for the benefit of the spiritual world.]
How to get hunger for divine knowledge?
[Ms. Swathika asked: How to get hunger for divine knowledge? When we are getting abundant divine knowledge from Swami, how do we grow hunger for Knowledge?]
Swami replied: Lot of food is cooked in our house and served to all the family members who are hungry. Anybody can take the food that is needed to pacify his/her own hunger. When the hunger is pacified, serving the food is stopped. One may have lot of hunger and eat lot of food. Another may have little hunger and may eat little food. The important point is not how much food is eaten by a hungry person. The main point is how much food is properly digested. One might have eaten lot of food, but nothing is digested. What is the use of eating such high quantity of food? One should eat that much only which is digested. Similarly, you must take that much knowledge only, which can be digested or implemented in practice. If the knowledge is not practically implemented, it brings headache only like the high quantity of food eaten but not digested brings stomach ache. If hunger alone is satisfied by eating or by getting knowledge, the food or knowledge eaten or taken has no significance or value.
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