In the morning after breakfast, Daaji came up and started reading a book. After one hour, he came down to sit on the swing. One of the carpenters who had made some bucket samples came to show them to Daaji. Daaji then went for a walk and then had a discussion with the civil team on the green polyhouse in the back garden.

After lunch, he went to rest. 

Daaji’s younger son Marg’s family came back from Ahmedabad. Little Layaa ran, calling out to him saying ‘Dada.’ She sat on Daaji's lap and talked in her own peculiar style with her grandfather. After being away for a few days she seemed delighted to be with him again.

In the evening Daaji joined a Zoom call with brother Ritwik and the Live 360 team with the practitioners who had recently participated in his health training. Ritwik Solanki in his sweet and acutely respectful manner gave a brief account to Daaji about the program he had held recently. He showed some pictures about the participants and their engagement with food in a creative manner to Daaji which made Daaji chuckle away. Then he put before Daaji some questions from the participants of the program. Daaji’s replies were like revelations - fascinating, incredible, and precise. 

The first question was regarding how are the annamaya and pranamaya kosha connected. What is the importance of a purer annamaya kosha?

Daaji replied, “There is a play of all the five koshas. They are like layers and mainly of the grosser body, subtle body, and the causal body. This classifies it into three bodies. Likewise, some yogis have classified it into five koshas.  When we do understand it, the first kosha is the sthool sharir (physical body) and the last kosha is the karan sharir (causal body). The remaining three in between belong to the sukshma sharir (subtle body).

Say that you are not in a good mood or depressed or preoccupied mentally with certain issues. This affects the pranamaya kosha, manomaya kosha, and vignyanmaya kosha. You may lose your appetite. You may feel like withdrawing from what is going on around you. You may lose your temper and miss out on heartful communication. This has an immediate impact on mental level, emotional level, and physical level and vice versa.

Most of you have described how your physical well-being can help you meditate more, and meditate better. 

So all these koshas reinforce each other. This program helps you to look after not only the annamaya kosha. With the right diet and exercises, we nourish the annamaya kosha. Through meditation, yogic exercises and constant remembrance we enrich our subtle bodies (sukshma sharir). This is how a continuous nourishment of each sheath occurs.

The most important factor is our attitude. Even the best food can become poisonous if we are not in the right state when we ingest it. I was most impressed when you came up with the concept of ‘a dinner date with the Master’ (eating in constant remembrance). That is what I generally do myself. I fall asleep with Babuji Maharaj as if I am holding him tight. The unproductive sleep hours also become productive when we are in touch with him. It is just a mental thing. He is not there physically but I am with him at that moment. And that changes everything. Your date with the master in everything you do is another way of expressing constant remembrance. But this is one step forward where you are emotionally also engaged. I cannot myself say that have a date with me. That will be rather badly misunderstood. But I am glad Ritwik has introduced this aspect of ‘dating your Master’. Dating someone is like inviting someone with love. In our Hindu tradition, we call it partaking of prasad. When we invite the presence of the Gods and offer them the food we have prepared with so much love, it changes food into prasad. It is that love that enables this transformation.

We know that non-vegetarian food is bad for us physically, spiritually, and mentally. I recall how a senior preceptor had once said that even vegetarian food can affect your health. e.g. when you are served something by your mother for food and you get into a tussle with her over it. You may find that perhaps the desert is not to your liking and so on and so forth. Then you become bitter or toxic about it. So though you may be having vegetarian food it becomes toxic for you. Your demand changes everything. Insistence changes everything. Desire changes everything.”

Ritwik told Daaji that many people ask whether it is fine to have eggs since they are not fertilised, in comparison to other non-vegetarian aliments. 

Daaji said, “Follow your heart. But personally speaking, to me eggs are baby to the mother hen who delivers it. To the hen who delivers an egg and hatches it, it is still the baby. She does not understand that it is not fertilised. When someone takes it away, her thoughts and her emotions remain connected with the egg that someone stole from her baby. Those vibrations affect us when we eat that egg.”

The next question asked was regarding the concept of illat, killat and zillat raised by Lalaji Maharaj. Lots of people have a sedentary lifestyle, they eat a lot of unhealthy food and have issues such as obesity, lifestyle diseases etc. And still, some of them say that they are unhealthy because it is their samskaras. Is it a proper way to think?

Daaji answered, “ We should always tend towards perfection. Having tried our best, if there is any imperfection left, we have to accept that. I have to work hard towards my physical health accepting the fact that no matter what happens to my health it is God’s gift. Just like I cannot say that money accorded to me by fate is enough. When you have the capacity to make millions, then go ahead and make it. If you have the capacity to make 2 million then make 5 million and distribute the surplus you don’t require to those in need.  None of the participants have paid the Live 360 team any fees for this program, right? It is good that you did not ask for any fees Ritwik. But if anyone offers to pay you anything, don't be adamant and refuse it out of an egoistic attitude. You may not have asked for anything but it is incumbent on the beneficiaries to give something in return. 

Babuji Maharaj said he did not charge for his services. But we are now paying with our entire lives. We feel that we belong to him so what is the point of giving? Our whole life is his. Everything that I have is his. So by not asking for anything he has stolen our hearts.” 

Daaji thus suggested to the participants of the program, present on the call,  to generously share some of their wealth with Ritwik’s team for having made them healthier.

Then Daaji instructed everyone present on the call to start meditation at 6.45 pm. He asked sister Revathy to end the sitting.

After this on his walk, he inspected the new shredding machine which was kept near the parking shed. Later after dinner, brother Vijay Vyas and brother Mukesh from Jodhpur came to meet Daaji and discussed ashram work for almost an hour.