The Aitareya Upanishad - 8. Swami Krishnananda

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04/05/2020.
Post-8.
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So, food was given to us, and through the pranas we consume a diet of this food. Through the eyes we assume that we are eating something in the form of colours and visions. We will be very unhappy if we cannot see things. "Oh, he is blind! He cannot see."

What does it matter if he does not see?

matters because a part of the diet of our sense organs has gone. Vision is a food, the sound that we hear is a food, taste is also a food, touch is a food, smell is a food. But this food cannot satisfy us for long. Every day we are hungry. If the food that is given to us today is actually satisfying, tomorrow we should not be hungry again.

Why is it that we are harassed like this every day?

Why is it that two or three times a day, hunger and thirst come upon us like demons?

We seem to be living only to appease this thirst and hunger that appear to be catching hold of us as the very principle of death itself.
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Thus, God gave food to the human individual in the form of an external something, of which we are having plenty in this world. 

But, are we happy? 

A curse has fallen upon us. God extradites the human nature from the heaven of angels, and mortality befalls us. Immortality vanishes from us. The immortal is our essential nature – communion with God. We were with God; basically, we still are with God but we have lost the awareness of it. 

As in dream we completely forget what has happened to us in waking – we project a new world altogether – here, in this so-called long dream of waking experience, we have projected a world which is basically dream-like.
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