I was telling you that the farmers don’t earn that much, because sometimes they earn a lot, but then next year maybe the harvest is bad. They don’t know a better method to cultivate, or the collective karma of the world makes drought or makes too much frost, and they lost the whole harvest. Or sometimes locusts come and eat all their plantations. So don’t think you just buy some apples and then you pay, you repay their debt. It’s not like that. Farmers are the fathers and the mothers of the people. You have to respect them. And when you eat, you be thankful in your heart, as if your parents give you something.
Everything you take, you must be grateful, not only to humans but to the gods who take care of that. Every fruit you eat, there are some fairies, some angels are responsible for that. They make the harvest big, they do, but sometimes there’s human karma and they cannot help, but otherwise they take care of the fruit that you eat. They take care of the trees. They make the rain. And they make the earth fertile. They tend to the fruit, bless it with love so that you eat it and it benefits not only your body but your mind, your soul, your spirit. That’s why you see fruit has Light. The Light’s not from the fruit itself – from the fairies, from the gods who take care of that tree, from the tree spirits, from the fruit angels, from the fairy of the field. They’re working hard. All of them working hard day and night just for your one meal. You don’t know all that.
You must always be grateful. Even if you don’t know, you have to give thanks to “all that offer me this meal.” “I thank you with all my heart.” I always thank and share my merit to whoever I can. I don’t just thank God Almighty. I thank all the small gods, the angels, the fairies and the farmers who make all this for us. God Almighty, of course, you thank. But, you see, you have to thank the physical, practical persons, or the angels who take care of that.
