The Maharishi was very particular that visitors to the Ashram should take food there. In fact, on the Jayanthi day, he did not take his meal till the last man had had his food. When I asked him about this, he said in effect, that when, in his early boyhood, he set out from the house to Tiruvannamalai, he had actually to starve for days together.
In those days, one Muslim family refused to give him food as he was a " kafir". Then when he was in the Patala Lingam cave, he subsisted mainly on plantains and panchamrita that were thrust down into the cave. He lived on these things for years and his body differed for want of food. Things took an opposite turn thereafter and it had been his experience that wherever he went some one or other greeted him with food. At one time when he was in deeps of the forest, some ten people were waiting for him each with separate food! And so he has been very particular that nobody should suffer the pangs as he did.
It is also a fact that food in Sri Maharishi's ashram is not merely food. It is definitely something more; people get better appetite there and the does not lie heavy.
SRI RAMANAYA NAMAHA
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