What is Mean by Food (Aahar)?

The five senses, the PANCHENDRIYAs, are having their food.  What ever these senses take in, is called food. 

1.  Whatever scenary, scene one see, what ever one look upon whether you are looking at a tree, whether you are looking at a man, an animal, a colourfull dress,  whether it is a film, a photo, a TV serial, a drama, road traffic, police men, etc etc  everything that is seeing by you with your eyes, all these are the food of your eyes.  All the DRISYA are the aahaar of the eyes.

 2. Like that all the sounds that you hear, whether it is a talk, whether it is the sound from a factory, sound of a motor car, sound of a cracker, sound of aeroplane, sound of lightening, sound of crying… each and every sound are the aahaar of ears.

 3. All the feelings of touch on your skin, touch from your clothes, touch by another person or any other object on your skin, touch by fire, touch by wind, touch by water ….all such feelings you get on your skin, are the food of your skin sense.

 4. All smells you smell thru your nose are the food of your nose sense.

 5.  All the tastes derive out of the innumerable items you put into your mouth and the taste which your tongue gets, are the food of that sense organ.

 All external applications, applying water, applying of oil, creams, injections  are also covered in food items of respective senses.

 People normally think that food means, what I put through my mouth.  This is what the contribution of the modern education.  In the present education system, study is done only about matters.  Actually there are three things,  one,  the object on which the study is being done, second, the process of studying and third, the person who is studying.  If there is an integrated method of teaching/studying of these three, then this question would not have come at all. Alas !  that is not there in the modern education

 When you see a scene during your awakened state (Jaagrat) or during a dream, a touch feeling or sound during dream or even in the unconscious state, it is also coming under aahaar, as all these feelings of the senses are itched in the MASTHISHKA PARYANKAADHARA DESA (hypothalamas).  These writings in the masthishka is coming out as your samskaara.

 Only because that I am completely a vegetarian, it will not give the full result. One has to abstain from looking, seeing, hearing, listening, touching, eating such matters or things which will bring adverse effect to my mind and body.   Not only my STHOOLA Sareera and SOOkshma Sareera but my KAARANA Sareera should also get purified through my shrined karmas

Thanks to vijayan (OmNamashivaya group)