"When you cook food, the quantity should be proportional to the volume of the vessel used for cooking; also, suitable heat should be provided for cooking. If you have a small vessel, you should put only half a kilogram of rice in it. Then the cooking will be proper. If you put two kilograms of rice in a small vessel, you will not be able to cook. Not only that, you should supply only as much heat as necessary while cooking food. If you put a small vessel on a big flame, the vessel will get charred. When the food is getting cooked, gradually reduce the flame.

In the same manner, you should enquire what is temporary and what is permanent in every aspect of your life. Once you cross a river, you don't need the raft any more. In the same way, when the food is cooked, you don't need the flame any more. So far as you are hungry, you require food. When your hunger is satiated, you don't require any more food. But this does not mean that you should waste or destroy something after fulfilling a need.

The raft that has helped you cross the river should be kept at a safe place so that others can make use of it. In this manner, you should always do good to others." - Divine Discourse 31 July 1996

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