Hi, everybody! I am posting here, uncertain whether I am doing it in the right topic or not. Apart from vegetarianism, one of the big issues BKs have to face is the one related to the person who has cooked the food we eat. When you become a BK, you soon have to learn that center niwassis and other BKs will not eat the food cooked by you unless you have been following the disciplines of celibacy, attendance of Murli class, etc. for at least six months. Like it or not. Because we are taught that the state of mind of the cook, influences the food been prepared, so we should protect ourselves from the bad vibes of impure, negative and ignorant people and likewise, we should not cook for others if we haven't become "pakka".
Boomerang effect: as we said long time ago on this Forum, it happens that students, once they become a bit independent and strong, noticing how impure and bossy their sister in charge is, may no longer accept meals, toli or even drishti given to them by that particular person. This is where discrimination power becomes handy. In the process of becoming wise and free from dogmas, BKs become paranoid and refuse food cooked by friends and relatives, never join colleagues for lunch break, and whilst desperately trying to protect themselves from any outside contamination, collect labels of being antisocial, create a lot of complications for those who invite them for a meal (I only eat raw food, etc...), and cause sorrow even to mothers and grandmothers, digging divides that later becomes difficult to bridge.
It is possible that this BK custom has roots in some Hindu system of Brahmin priests not accepting food cooked or handed over by untouchables. But apart from the caste system, or Bhakti, I firmly believe that cooking is like alchemy and that our thoughts do influence matter. I would like to get some opinion on this , based on your direct experience and especially, since some of you have expanded their horizon by studying other types of knowledge, what do different sources say. As far as I know, food, as well as magic potions, have been used, and still are, in human society in order to influence people either positively or negatively, to heal, to control, to tie up,to make one fall in or out of love, to make a person crazy or ill, weak or strong ...
So, it is a common practise in sorcery and esoterism.
Once again, is it possible to sieve the truth from falsehood, the cosmic laws from human made rules, to discover that what the BKs claim to be their monopoly, is something that is property and legacy of humanity and they did not discover anything new, they just have a very incomplete, terroristic and authoritaristic way to use it and impose it on adepts, so that rather than a teaching being shared or a truth revealed, it takes on the taste of a threat or becomes a cause for creating feelings of superiority/inferiority in people?
Does anybody feel like sharing opinions on this matter?