Food as charity

The direct path to transformation:

The quickest and highest expression of divine love is giving food for charity and in turn is a direct path to spiritual transformation. True charity is done in absolute secrecy, ensuring the giver seeks pleasure only from the Divine, not from gratitude, validation or recognition. Why food? Because it breaks the grip of greed and material attachment on the heart. If you are to give charity it is best not to tell anyone as the selfless service to humanity is key to reap the benefits from God. It brings peace to the home and attract prosperity, well-being and positive energy. 

As individuals, we are composed of two primary “machines” that often function in a separate manner. These machines relate to the conscious mind, which is on a surface level and apparent and the unconscious and intuitive mind. With the latter, the “machine” is much stronger and larger, capable of thrashing and moving, yet is wordless and soaked in a kind of endless darkness, void of sense organs and fully moved by instinct. It basks in ignorance and chaos when it is not given “eyes” to see and “ears” to hear. It feeds off of being able to attach to sense organs that “eat” experiences that it can digest and integrate. Think of “Fez” in Euphoria, “Travis Bickle” in Taxi Driver, “Lisa Rowe” in Girl Interrupted. The more senseless an individual becomes the more intuitive they become thus being able to navigate through difficult situations with ease without needing further explanation or the need to address the matter.

The former, is weak & ungrounded, possessing all sense organs, a gaping mouth, yet with no connection to the intuition, soaking in it’s own leaking poisons. There is no body to “digest” and process the head’s sensorial experiences and integrate those into its being, and so it grows further from truth and deeper into egoic delusion believing all sorts of assumptions. It forms false, rigid identities around it like walls to protect its weak nature (living in a glass-house of only theory and projections that have little to no root in experience or objective reality) and any instinctual element that arises from the body that doesn’t match the ego’s idea of “self” gets repressed or masked, hidden from our awareness, swallowed by the mouth, before we even acknowledge it. Think Cassie from Euphoria, Regina George in Mean Girls, the bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan.

When these “machines/2/shadow planets function separately (the body lashing in ignorance and the head grovelling in egoic delusion) the space and disparity between them becomes the “Shadow” and all light that we would be capable of radiating (if they were to unite and work together) is lost and scattered. We “decide” who we are based on our whims and fears, instead of uncovering our nature and working with it. Then, we fight against our true nature incessantly. We all have these polarising machines it’s just how we master them that truly get it. The tendrils of our animal nature pull us one direction that we keep secret, while our head, in reaction to the “secret” parts it rejects, walks us the exact opposite way and we shout that to the world. In that way, we embody and become a walking contradiction thus creating a victim mode mentality. Not everyone has a balance of controlling the two and this is why donating food helps maintain that equilibrium very quickly. In fact feeding someone until they are full is far better than building a thousand mosques.

For example, when you are internally full of rage and your instinctual nature is cold but your egoic identity rejects those traits, you will obsess externally over huge displays of compassion, crying for others, etc. When you are internally full of jealousy or insecurity that is veiled from your conscious awareness, you will compliment the things you find ugly or useless and speak badly about the things you find appealing or inspiring (as the people who embody the things you desire are the ones who most strongly reflect your own inadequacies). Each word becomes a tribute to your own inability to tap into and utilise your own personal power— your rejection of responsibility for yourself and your true reactions.

The more aligned one is with their internal processes, the more one can act from a place of singularity rather than dualism and contradiction. Once you have reached this inner and outer union, the machines function together effectively and move on a clear path towards truth and the beauty that is innately bound to it.

Energetically how does giving food help?

The spirit in which you give is the most important thing about your donation. Why? It is intrinsic to your state of mind and it will carry through into your multiplied return. When an opportunity to give is offered to you, if you consider giving and then decide against it, saying in effect, "I better not, I may need it myself," you will most certainly need it yourself. If you give grudgingly or calculatingly these configurations will be present in your return. If, however, you give boldly, generously, full heartedly, impulsively, spontaneously, it shall be given to you tenfold in the same manner. There is a spiritual energy which flows through every human being. This spiritual energy which flows through your mind will flow into whatever pattern you conceive, and as all energy works in a circuit, the energy which flows through your mind brings back to you of its invisible circuit the material counterpart of your thoughts, words and emotions. So, if you pattern the spiritual energy which flows through your mind with a lack of good, a lack of good will appear to be returned to you. If instead you pattern this spiritual energy with happiness, happiness will be returned to you. It is very important for us to get out of our mental patterns of poverty to realize that, as God knows no lack, neither do we.

Lets say though you were in a bad mood and you did a specific act of random kindness like donating food to the homeless during a positive transit. This creates a positive frequency in your aura that vibrates strongly during a repeat of that transit pattern or a similar pattern in the sky. Recently I learnt that Gen Z’s use aura points to measure someone's apparent coolness, confidence, or social charisma! So lets say the next time this pattern occurred when you visualised wealth or desired abundance and again did some act of kindness. This keeps building the positive wave. Lets say others who had a chart similar to yours and are in your same location or state but did not maintain the wave. Now, when the wave amplitude builds up beyond the "Breaking Point" where it can just stay as a standing wave in your aura, you would have to attract a physically viable form of this Energy, i.e Money. The transit of the time one makes the decision to to a random act of kindness or say even to play the lottery are also important. Because that was ones higher self giving prompts to act upon it by booking a holiday for the purposes of helping the needy or scribbling numbers on a lottery ticket for the future event of the announcement or making food for a homeless person. Even donating or protecting a bio-reserve/endangered species etc are all very powerful acts that boost up the next series of positive waves. This 10% of the law followed prior to investing is a sure shot. These acts heal the future life as well, like preventing accidents etc.

Another important step is treating yourself very well after a big positive life event. If one maintains a middle class mindset of self-worth (I am not saying one should become snobbish). This too helps us act during the right transits without having to know them. It becomes an "Unconscious Competence". A desire to help the less fortunate will give a chance to really show how the Laws of Prosperity and the power of love really work. The Laws of Cause and Effect will be a known, innate factor in your daily living and spiritual practice, and you will follow them later.

To conclude

As mentioned earlier, the ability to give food comes from privilege rather than personal superiority and detaches oneself from the outcome. Admittedly, those who donate just to feel good they may have the best intentions behind it and genuinely want to help, but they are so keen to do so they really don't think about what they are actually doing. However, if you do this without just the need to feel good, you are detaching from any “machine”. By giving purely to serve, not to gain gratitude, validation, reciprocation, or social status you gravitate in forming an equilibrium whereby abundance can enter as there is no ulterior motive. So by offering pure, loving energy through the preparation and giving of food, you are passing that high vibrational energy to the recipient, which can heal them on emotional and psychological level as well. By letting go of what you have, you generate a space that allows new energy, abundance, and grace to flow into your life. Unlike money, which is tied to societal status, commerce, and material ego, food represents pure life force. Freely giving food requires humility, direct involvement and genuine love rather than simply bank transferring payments from a distance. Moreover, money does not carry a life force and does not grow therefore it cannot interact with the consciousness.

If you want to give back there are plenty of charities that help depending on your availability and plenty of ways to anonymously donate. I would highly recommend helping the needy in secret to prevent boasting (riya) and to maximise the reward. During Eid al-Adha, meat is divided into three equal portions, one-third is kept for the immediate family to enjoy, another third is shared with relatives, friends, and neighbours. And the last third is donated to the poor, vulnerable, and those in need. This is included for a reason. We should give full heartedly. The plain and simple truth is that you must start giving before you can start receiving. The gift itself not only mentally sets in motion a cycle of ever-increasing energy which returns to you in your tenfold return but it also serves to fix firmly in your mind the image of the desired return.