He was a newly married young man. Once he had to go to the village of his wife, where his wife’s father, mother and family were living. His wife had asked him to go to her mother’s house as he happened to go to the village. Talking the words of his wife, the young man also went to the house of his mother – in law. They all gave him great reception and requested him to stay there in the night.

The mother – in law asked him what special item of food that he liked to have for the dinner.

The young man politely asked his mother – in law. “ I do not want anything special. What are you going to have for your dinner ?”

“Since today is Yegadasi, we are having Upavasam for us ” - she replied.

Yegadasi is an auspicious day, especially for having a fast. Actually Upavasam means fasting. But the young man meant it to be a different kind of food.

So he gently told her, “I do not want anything special for me. I will also have Upavasam”

She tried to convince him to have some special item of food, but in vain. He repeatedly told that Upavasam was enough for him.

It was getting late. A bed was also prepared for the young man. But nobody invited him to the dinner. Since the entire family maintained fasting, they

prepared some gingili balls, by mixing the gingili seeds and jagary in a mortar.

He heard the sound of the pestle and thought that they were preparing Upavasam.

The mother — in law asked him whether he would like to have some gingili balls.

But he politely refused and said that Upavasam alone was enough for him.

Then the mother – in law herself retired to bed.

The young man felt very hungry. Any how he hesitated to ask them to serve him Upavasam. Everybody slept peacefully, except this young man.He could not sleep in hunger.

His hunger made him to search the mortar where they prepared Upavasam. Since the mortar was not cleaned, some morsel of ground gingili seed was there in the hole of the mortar. The young man , in his hungry mood, thrusted his head into the hole of the mortar and the head got stuck he could not take back his head.

The story goes like that.

Till the end, the young man misinterpreted that Upavasam is a delicious food. But it is really means, refusing all foods.

In this way we all imagine a heavenly state of experience, in the name of Athma Satchathkar, in the name of Self Realization and in the name of Turya.