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CONTROL OF TASTE
(3) Maharaj Nrusinhdas was a great austere saint of the state of Gujurat, India. He lived in the early part of the present century in the city, Ahmedabad. He ate only millet-cake and vegetables and did not use anything else in his food.
There is a temple dedicated to a God named Shri Jagannathji in Ahmedabad. Traditionally many Tyagi Sadhus (monks) lived at the temple. Shri Nrusinhadasaji, the predecessor of the present Shri Ramaharshadasaji, spread the fame of the temple for more than thirty years by unity, peace and service to others. Many cows are looked after in the temple, and guests are regularly served rice-milk and other sweet items.
Shri Nrusinhadasaji Maharaj, by his vow, ate only after guests and residents of the temple were fed. He daily and regularly took only millet-cake and vegetable Bhaji. Inspite of all requests of the worshipers and inconveniences due to old age, he took this simple, tasteless, uniform food until he died. This gives to us much food for thought with regard to the abandonment of taste of the tongue for the whole life by great souls.
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