According to Sai Baba's teachings recorded in Chapter 32, hunger severely impairs one's ability to be spiritual. Baba taught that all the senses require strength from food to function properly, and only then can devotion to God happen. The text vividly describes that when one is extremely hungry, the sense organs become wretched and forget their skills. It poses rhetorical questions, asking how the eyes can see God, how the tongue can describe His glory, or how the ears can hear it without the "moistness of food in the belly." Essentially, if the senses become weak from lack of food, they lose their capacity for spirituality, making it essential to eat before pursuing devotion.
How does hunger affect one's ability to be spiritual, according to Sai Baba's teachings in the Satcharitra?
📖 Chapter 32