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Osho – It is said about Ramkrishna that he was much too interested in food; in fact obsessed. That is very unlikely. Even his wife, Sharada, used to feel very embarrassed; because he was such a great saint, only with one flaw \u2013 and the flaw was that he was much too interested in food. He was interested so much that while he was giving satsang to his disciples, just in the middle he will say, \u201dWait, I am coming,\u201d and he will go to look into the kitchen, what is being cooked. He will just go there and ask, \u201dWhat is being prepared today?\u201d and then will come back and start his satsang again.<\/p>\n

His closest disciples became worried. They said, \u201dThis doesn\u2019t look good, Paramhansa. And everything is so perfectly beautiful \u2013 never has there walked such a beautiful and perfect man \u2013 but this small thing, why can\u2019t you drop it?\u201d He will laugh and will not say anything.<\/p>\n

One day his wife Sharada insisted too much. He said, \u201dOkay, if you insist, I will tell. My prarabdha is finished; and I am just clinging with this food. If I drop that I am gone.\u201d The wife could not believe this. It is very difficult for wives to believe in their own husbands \u2013 even if the husband is a Paramhansa it makes no difference. The wife must have thought that he is befooling, or he is trying to rationalize. Seeing that, Ramkrishna said, \u201dLook, I can see that you are not trusting me, but you will know. The day I am going to die, just three days before that day, three days before my death, I will not look at the food. You will bring my thali in, and I will start looking in another direction; then you can know that only three days more am I to be here.\u201d<\/p>\n

That too was not believed; they forgot about it. Then, just three days before\u00a0Ramkrishna<\/a>\u00a0died, he was resting, Sharada brought his thali, his food: he turned over, started looking at the other side. Suddenly the wife realized, remembered. The thali fell from her hands, she started crying.<\/p>\n

Ramkrishna<\/a>\u00a0said, \u201dDon\u2019t cry now. Now my work is finished; I need not cling.\u201d And exactly after three days he died.<\/p>\n

He was clinging in compassion, just trying to create a bondage with one chain. The imprisonment is gone; the prison has disappeared. Out of compassion he was trying to cling, to linger a little longer on this shore, to help those who had gathered around him. But it is difficult to understand a Paramhansa. It is difficult to understand a man who has become a siddha, a Buddha, one who has emptied all his sanchita, all accumulated karmas. It is very difficult. He has no gravitation, so Ramkrishna was clinging to a rock.<\/p>\n

The rock has gravitation. He was clinging to a rock so that he could linger on this earth a little longer. When you have samyama, a consciousness fully alert, you can see how much karma is left. It is exactly like when a physician comes and he sees and touches the pulse of a dying man, and he says, \u201dNot more than two, three hours.\u201d What is he saying? By long experience he has come to know how the pulse beats when a person is going to die. Exactly that way, a man who is alert knows how much prarabdha is left \u2013 how much pulse \u2013 and he knows when he has to go.<\/p>\n

Source: from book\u00a0“<\/a><\/span><\/span>Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega,<\/span><\/a>\u00a0Vol 8″ by Osho<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[165,163,601],"tags":[2,131,610],"class_list":["post-7283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-osho","category-ramakrishna","category-teachings","tag-osho","tag-ramakrishna","tag-teaching"],"yoast_head":"\nRamakrishna Paramhansa Interest in food - 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