Food, Mood And Life

Sadhguru Isha Foundation

Sadhguru: The body is essentially an accumulation of food - breakfast, lunch and dinner. So what type of food you eat definitely has an impact on what kind of body you build. In Indian culture, there is a tremendous amount of knowledge about what you should eat based upon the type of life you choose. If you want to become a wrestler, you eat one kind of food. If you want to use your brains, there is another kind of food. If you want to evolve spiritually, you eat another kind of food. It depends on what you are making the body fit for.

Different people have different requirements of fitness. For a laborer, fitness is to be able to work twelve hours a day. If you are an athlete, you are thinking of hundred meters in eight seconds. If you are a spiritual seeker, you are looking at your body in terms of being a conducive instrument for higher possibilities. Depending upon the orientation of your life, you accordingly choose a certain kind of food. This wisdom and knowing is deeply embedded in this culture.

FOOD BODY The way you eat not only decides your physical health, but the very way you think, feel and experience life. Trying to eat intelligently means understanding what kind of fuel this body is designed for and accordingly supplying that kind of fuel so that it functions at its best.

Let us say you bought a petrol car, but you pumped kerosene into it and drove it around. It might still move about, but it would not function at its optimal capacity, and its lifespan could also be seriously affected. Similarly, if we do not understand what kind of fuel this body is designed for, if we just force whatever comes onto our plate into the system, it will definitely not function at its optimum level, and its lifespan can be reduced. Compatibility of the fuel and of the machine is of great importance if you are seeking a certain caliber of function.