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NINE UPANISHADS
One should increase food grains (or other food substances)
• and this should be the vow. The earth is (the source of) food
and the ether is the eater thereof. The ethereal space exists
in the earth and the latter exists in the former. Thus food
exists in food, and he, who knows food as so established, lives
long, possessed of large quantity of food and becomes the
enjoyer thereof as also great in progeny, cattle wealth, luster
of holiness (resulting from devotion to God) and glory.
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1. No one should refuse to give shelter to a gentleman
for residence in his house, and this should be the vow. Hence
the wise say one should amass a large quantity of (grains and
other eatables) by all right means for entertainment of such
guests. One gets fruit of his entertainment of guests according
to his faith and quality of food, good, ordinary or low, he
prepares for, and serves to, them.