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Navratra Fasting ................................................ 4Tuladaan............................................................. 6Meditation on Chakras ...................................... 8Manas Yog Sadhana Series.............................. 11The Science of Giving...................................... 12Sadhak’s Experience........................................ 14Questions - Answers ....................................... 16Return to Nature ............................................. 19Are diseases curse of nature .......................... 22Student-Parents Camp ................................... 25IASS News ....................................................... 26
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There is a provision for
Navratra fastings twice
a year at the time of
changing seasons. It has
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body should, in a natural
way, be allowed to
excrete impurities the
wastages, which are
generally seen in the
form of cold, cough,
fever, constipation,
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If proper way of fasting is
adopted at the right time,
one can remain free from
these diseases.
From the religious view,
Navratra is Maa Durga’s
festival and Maa Durga
is the symbol of power.
Her weapons are the
symbols of destruction
of vikaaras. Her riding a
lion is the symbol of
victory over all the
senses. So Maa Durga
destroys our vikaaras
and manifests vital
power in our body and
generates happiness and
wisdom. On the basis
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religious aspects, there
is a tradition to fast in a
proper manner to gratify
Maa Durga. However, if
without understanding
the theory of fasting, one
does it, one is supposed
to be deceived of the
manifestation of the
power. So an intelligent
person is supposed
to cooperate in God’s
regulation of power
manifestation, by proper
fasting to keep the senses
under control.
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aspect in view, His
Holiness Yogiji Maharaj
was kind to submit a
reasonable and gradual
way of fasting before
the devotees. We are
reproducing this proper
way of fasting for the
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will get inspiration and
cooperation leading an
auspicious way of fasting.
Gradual fasting
Gradual fasting means
‘preparation for fasting’
and ‘preparation for
taking food after fasting’.
It means one should
neither start nor break
fasting all of a sudden.
It should be done in
a gradual way. If one
wants to fast on water,
then one is required to
discard grains from his
intakes and should be
on vegetables only for
two days before start of
fasting. Similarly, after
completion of fasting on
NAVRATRA FASTING
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water, one should be on
vegetables for three days.
Only after that, taking
grain-food should be
started. If this procedure
is adopted, there will
be no load on vital
power and power will be
manifested.
Reasonable fasting?
Fasting with
discriminative
understanding can
be called Reasonable
Fasting. A devotee should
know the
meaning of fasting. In
Hindi language, it is
called ‘Upvaas’, which
consists of two words,
namely, ‘Up’ and ‘Vaas’,
which means to come
nearer the God. It is also
necessary to know that
food only builds the body
and it cannot produce
energy. With this
understanding, if fasting
is done, only then it is
Reasonable Fasting. It
does not insist upon the
act, but upon thoughts
and feeling.
How a new devotee
should fast?
If a new devotee has
adopted the ideal food
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noon, fruits and salads
between 12 and 1:30
p.m. and complete food
at night, he can easily
undertake proper fasting.
A devotee undertaking
���������������� �����
time should give up only
grains and milk. He
should have fruit juices,
like carrot, cucumber,
orange, pomegranate
and pineapple etc in
daytime. After gap of
an hour or two, he may
eat seasonal fruits like
papaya, cucumber,
guava, apple and cheeku
etc and green vegetables
like pumpkin, spinach,
unripe papaya, cabbage,
tinda and parval etc at
night. Potatoes should
be avoided as far as
possible. Also, he should
use enema daily and take
bath both the times. He
should meditate thrice
a day, take rest properly
and distribute some
food.
During Navratra
fasting, it is said that
the mouth becomes
pungent and that
there is pain in teeth
and fatigue in body.
Why is it so?
Actually, during the
fasting, the vital power
becomes free from the
load of digesting the food
and it gets engaged in
cleansing the wastages
from the body. Above
mentioned conditions
Contd. at page 7
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6
TULADAAN
Human being often is
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is obsessed with just
gathering things. He is
afraid to give and afraid
to share. Although the
fact is that he has to
give, whether happily
or unwillingly. He has
to give to the doctors,
when ill. He has to give
to lawyers, when trapped
in legal issues. If he is
ready to share willingly,
he need not give it
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problems and bad health
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Tuladaan, mentioned in
ancient mythologies, is
an un-comparable yet
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Tuladaan is a type of
practice which includes
the distribution of grains
(weighing equivalent to
your weight) along with
a worn cloth and some
dakshina for the priest.
This is given to either a
priest in temple or any
other food distribution
area.
The science behind the
practice can be explained
like this. Man is for whole
life, obsessed with food.
Even though food is
something that he takes
throughout his life, still
he is attached to it. Food,
as and when, not taken
in a balanced form, is the
biggest reason for bad
health and diseases. As
the Newton’s law say,
every action has opposite
and equal reaction, the
best way to get detached
with food is to distribute
and share it. This will in
turn reduce the demand
of food in body and the
importance of it in mind.
The reason for including
a worn cloth in this
distribution is that after
food, human is second
most attached with the
clothes he wear. Even
though he gets hundreds
of them, he is never
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cloth instead of a new
one, helps in reducing
the attachment that
the person has with his
belongings and here
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we do this practice along
with dakshina to the
priest, as a result, we will
notice improvement in
our health.
Tuladaan is considered
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maintaining good health.
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So a normal human
being should at least
practice this once a year,
if not more than that,
to maintain the desired
results in body and mind.
We often spend
thousands of rupees on
birthday celebrations
of our kids. Instead,
cutting on a tenth of
those expenses and
doing this tuladaan for
your child every year
on his birthday will
yield miraculous health
results for the child
throughout his life. If not
birthdays, you can choose
any of the auspicious
occasions or festivities
in the house to carry this
event. Our sadhaks, who
practice this regularly
have witnessed some
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results.
Contd. from page 5
are the symptoms
of cleansing of the
wastages. Uprising of
Pitta, the bile creates
pungency in mouth,
which creates fatigue
in body too. Vayu
vikaara creates pain
somewhere in body.
But enema relieves
these problems. The
devotee should make
Navratra fasting with
patience and trust.
At last, all problems
will go away and
permanent freedom
from body pains will
be gained.
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There is no chakra in or
on the physical heart.
When we use the word -
“Heart Centre”, it means
the Anahat chakra on the
spine near the heart.
(a) Sri Aurobindo and
advised beginners to
concentrate on the
heart centre, the seat of
the soul or the psychic
being. This ensures
rapid progress in
devotion and conquest
over animal nature.
(b) In Sri Ram
charitmanas and Srimad
Bhagwat, devotees have
been advised at many
places to concentrate on
the form of the Lord in
the heart centre.
(c) Sri Krishna advised
his beloved devotee,
Uddhava, to meditate
on the full-bloom heart
lotus of scarlet colour,
MEDITATION ON CHAKRAS
There are two methods of
meditation:
1. By Relaxation
2. By Concentration
Within the method
of concentration, the
sadhak can meditate by
concentrating on various
names of God or on
various ‘Chakras’ (energy
centres).
In meditation by
concentration on
chakras, the mind is
concentrated on one or
various chakras. Follow-
ing are some of them:
Manipur Chakra - Navel centre
Yogis are known to have
acquired supernatural
powers by concentrating
on the navel centre.
Anahat Chakra - Heart centre
with the yellow seed
capsule.
(d) Some saints have
got good results by
meditating on the heart
centre of twelve crimson
petals with the rising
sun in the centre.
(e) Maharshi Raman
spoke of the heart
chakra as the seat of the
soul. He said that soul
was located about an
inch to the right of the
centre of the chest and
activated the physical
organ, the heart.
Tradition
places the location of
the soul to the centre or
left of the centre —
ANGUSHTHAMATRAH
PURUSHONTARATMA
SADA JANANAM HRIDI SAN-
NIVISHTAH
(KATHOPANISHAD 2-3-17)
The Purusha, the Spirit
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SHATAM CHAEKA
CHA HRIDYASYA
NADYASTASAM
MURDHANAMBHINIH
SRITAEK ATAYORDHW-
MAYANNAMRITVAMETI
VISHWANGANYA
UTKRAMANE
BHAWANTI
(Kathopanishad 2-3-16)
Agya Chakra - between eyebrows
In the Holy Gita Lord
Krishna has prescribed
meditation between
the eyebrows, at Agya
Chakra, the place of
the mystic third eye,
which gives the Yogi the
distant vision. The Lord
says :
within, which is no
longer than the thumb
of a man, is seated for
ever in the hearts of all
creatures.
(f) Meditation is done
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the heart centre.
(g) The Holy
Kathopanishad says: A
hundred and one are
the nerves of the heart,
and of all these only one
issues out through the
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his soul mounts up to
its immortal home, but
the rest lead him to all
sorts and conditions of
birth —
“Keeping the trunk,
neck and head straight
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and look at the base of
the nose (not the tip as
generally understood)
without looking in
another direction” —
SAMAM KAY
SHIROGREEVAM
DHARYANNACHALAM
STHIRAH
SAMPREKSHYA NASIKAGRAM
SWAM DISHA-
SHCHANAVALOKAYAN
(Geeta 6/13)
The spot between the
eyebrows is the gate
to Sahasrar, the astral
centre.
The Yogic texts speak
of the Sushumna Nadi
(nerve) moving west
or backward from the
Agya Chakra which
is located between the
eyebrows —
SUSHUMNA PASHCHIMVAHINI
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10
Sahastrar Chakra - Brahmrandhra
The Reverend ‘Yogi Ji’
advises his followers
to meditate on the
crown of the head, the
Sahastrar Chakra. Most
Yogis and Bhaktas have
meditated here in one
form or another.
Talking in modern
terminology, some Yogis
have said that two
glands in the cranium
are directly involved in
spiritual awakening —
the pituitary and the
pineal. The former is
located in a straight line
behind the Agya Chakra,
and below the spot still
uncovered with bone in
the infant.
The pineal lies still
further in the same
line but a little above,
near the upper end of
the cerebellum. It is
located in a straight
line from the centre
of the forehead. It has
the shape of a small
eye and works as an
aerial to receive cosmic
vibrations.
Concentration on
the spot between the
eyebrows stimulates the
pituitary which, in turn,
activates the pineal, said
to be the central point
of the Sahasrar. Above
the pineal, lies the place
where people in our
land have been growing
a tuft of hair.
In the above ways the
sadhak can meditate by
concentrating on either
or all of the centres in
sequential manner.
1 MON Sarangkheda
2 TUE Nandurbar
3 WED Meerut
4 THU Meerut
5 FRI Meerut
6 SAT Navratra fasting camp, Meerut
7 SUN Navratra fasting camp, Meerut Delhi, Gurgaon
8 MON Navratra fasting camp, Meerut
9 TUE Navratra fasting camp, Meerut
10 WED Navratra fasting camp, Meerut
11 THU Navratra fasting camp, Meerut
12 FRI Navratra fasting camp, Meerut
13 SAT Navratra fasting camp, Meerut
14 SUN Navratra fasting camp, Meerut
15 MON Meerut
16 TUE Meerut
17 WED Meerut
18 THU Budaun
19 FRI Bareilly Kota
20 SAT Hisar Lucknow Indore
21 SUN Hisar Lucknow Ujjain
22 MON wHisar Moradabad Bhopal
23 TUE Hisar
24 WED Hisar
25 THU Hisar
26 FRI Hisar Vadodara
27 SAT Vrindaban Vadodara
28 SUN Gwalior Bharuch
29 MON Shivpuri/Dinara
30 TUE Mauranipur
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THE SCIENCE OF GIVING
Nature is continuously giving away something or the other without expecting anything in return. The sun has been our source of light and energy since eons but it never tires of giving. No matter how much sunshine it shares with us, its reserves never seem to deplete. Likewise, the earth has been constantly bearing plants for our survival, decade after decade, century after century. The trees around us continue to produce fruits and purify the air for us, without keeping a tab on how many fruits we pluck every season, or how much air-pollution we indiscriminately cause. Everything that constitutes Nature is busily giving and sharing then shouldn’t the same
be naturally expected from all human beings?
Human beings, however, have learnt to behave ��"��������� ��� ��they have been naturally programmed over centuries. That is a big reason for their unhappiness as they live in non-alignment with the benevolent energies of Nature. Instead of learning how to give gracefully from the sun, the earth, the trees, the sources of water and so on, human beings have cultivated the habit of seeking more and more, quite the opposite of what was naturally expected of them. In fact, the greed to acquire and hoard material things has increased so much that the basic values inherent in the act of giving seem to have been completely
overlooked.
Jesus Christ always preached that whoever gave away with devotion would get more and whoever tried to hoard, � �������������������But human beings have become creatures yearning for more, endlessly. If a person earns hundred rupees, he doesn’t feel like parting with even a tenth of it (i.e. Rs. 10 as per the concept of dashansh) as Lord’s share. He feels tempted to preserve all his money and belongings as giving away would ‘reduce them’ at an apparent level. Unfortunately, what he doesn’t understand is that in the larger arithmetic of life, a person earns in the proportion in which he gives away without
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expecting anything in return (like Nature), and vice versa!
When a person practices the art of distributing, his energy expands ����������������joy, contentment and prosperity. The more he gives away, the more his energy level expands thus attracting more positivity, abundance and happiness for him. However, when a person �������������������and miserly way, the energy inside his heart contracts. Such a person is usually always-angry and constantly-worried type, who is miles away from being peaceful and harmonious in any surrounding. Unfortunately, most people fall in the latter category, often trying to save and gather
worldly goods till their last breath, whether they get to use what they earn or not! They are doomed to live a life ������%���"����������discontentment as their ������������������ �*mindedness gets the better of them.
Many times people justify this save-till-you-drop attitude by saying it is all for their family and welfare of the future generations. But what is the guarantee that all of the savings will be well ���������������������of the concerned person? Common sense would
tell us that among the billions of human beings alive on earth today, many of them would be descendants of erstwhile kings and queens. What happened to all their riches?
Where did all their inherited prosperity vanish?
Therefore, a better way of living a life full of abundance, fearlessness and joy is to cultivate a habit of sharing with others. This is a sure shot way of becoming a high-energy being as the person would always be focusing on the highest qualities a human being can possibly possess. This would make that person always live in a blissful state of paramanand (supreme joy).
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SADHAK’S EXPERIENCE
for me at the hospital I
frequented.My daily diet
at that point included
a dose of 20-25 pills
for all the diseases
I had: spondylitis,
acidity, varicose,
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With all the medication
and excessive hospital
visits, I had to shut down
my business.
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Seva-Sumiran (TSS) in
February 2018 when I
went for a one-day camp
at Ahmedabad. Then I
went to Junagarh for
a May camp followed
by another seven-day
camp in July at Pune.
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after attending all
these camps were so
overwhelming namely
that how wrongly I was
looking for energy in
food and for health in
medicines.
In April, I did Navratra
fasting only on lemon
My name is Bharat
Solanki from Mumbai,
Maharashtra. I am 48
years old with an interior
decoration business. I
had cervical spondylitis
since a very long time.
Most of the vertebrae in
my neck (C3-C7) were
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of my spinal cord(L3-L6)
in the back region had
been injured due to an
episode of slipped disc.
The doctor had already
suggested operation for
my condition.
I was in a bad shape
because I had to wear a
collar all the time and
could not move around
freely. I was overweight
at 80 kg and often had
to get admitted to a
hospital for 25 days in
a month. In fact, there
was a permanent bed
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water, then I fasted for
8 days on mangoes, and
then subsequently, I
fasted only on uncooked
food for three months.
So the intake of all the
20-25 pills stopped
in 25 days.I practiced
enema and vaman kriya
scrupulously. My weight
reduced from 80 to 58
kgs.
My wife Hemangi was
obese but did not have
any medical problems
like me
but she
also
started
following
this new
lifestyle.
She lost
all the
extra kilos
as she
became 50
kgs from 70 kgs.
Our new lifestyle
comprises eating
nothing till 12 in the
noon followed by green
leaf juice, fruit-salad
in the afternoon and
one full cooked meal
at night. We have
stopped consuming tea
or milk altogether even
though the doctors had
asked me to drink milk
regularly! We both also
performseva by putting
aside dashanshfrom
our earning (tithing)
and practice
sumiran(meditation) in
our daily life. Just as we
setting out on this path
of an alternate lifestyle,
we performed atuladanas
well.
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is to tell more and
more people about TSS
method of holistic health
and how magical it has
been in our lives.
We wish the readers
hope, happiness and the
best of health in this New
Year.
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QUESTIONS-ANSWERSQUESTIONS RELATED TO SADHANA ARE BEING
ANSWERED IN THIS COLUMN. PLEASE DO NOT
HESITATE IN RAISING MORE QUESTIONS AS IT
MIGHT HELP OTHER ASPIRANTS TOO.
Q.- Ques: Sri Ramcharit manas (Manas) states that even incurable diseases can be cured, how?
Ans: According to medical science, diseases are believed to be caused by germs. Modern science therefore focuses on discovering new medicines to eliminate these germs. However, Manas believes that there is only one single cause of any human sickness: accumulation of toxins in the body.
Germs naturally grow ����%�������� ����������that Manas subscribes to. For instance, if germs
are extracted and put in distilled water, they would not be able to survive in such a clean environment. Likewise, the body has to be kept clean and therefore disease-free by regular elimination of waste matter.
Another common example to explain this is the growth of worms over time in a closed can of wheat or rice at home. From where do these worms come? We all know not from outside. This example shows that any environment that is stagnating (therefore unclean) is a fertile ground for growth of germs, what
medical science calls as ‘infection’. So, any impure human body is bound to attract diseases depending upon the level of impurities it has acquired over time.
The principle of ‘Tap’ based on an ideal dietary system in Manas ����������� ������������improving the dietary system to slowly purify the body and make it disease-free. American doctor Edward Dewey wrote an entire book on this theme titled ‘The No Breakfast Plan’. He has a record of curing hundreds of patients of medically incurable diseases by simply making them give up
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their breakfast.
For treating incurable diseases according to Manas, the following steps need to be taken. Quit morning breakfast and start your day with raw food, i.e. fruits, sprouted moong dal and salad as early lunch and simultaneously reduce intake of cereals and pulses during the rest of the day. Take one complete meal comprising vegetables, cereals (wheat, rice etc.) and pulses at night.
In general, try to reduce foods that tend to stick to intestines like ������=���������������������������� ��%��������� ���$��� ��>�and start consuming � ��� ���� ���� �*sticky foods like green leaves (coriander, mint, curry leaf, bael leaves, Holy basil, drumstick leaves etc.), seasonal
fruits and vegetables etc. Try to increase intake of fruit juices and vegetable soups instead of depending solely on a solid diet that causes more strain on the digestive system. This way the system will ��������������������and all disease-causing germs will get eradicated slowly as more and more waste matter will get eliminated through diet-change.
We are in touch with so many people whose ‘incurable’ TB was cured fully just by eliminating accumulated waste matter through this dietary system Likewise, many people could cure asthma and diabetes in just a few months, without taking any medicine for it.
So by following the �����������������secular principles of
‘Tap-Seva-Sumiran’ (i.e. ideal dietary system, sharing and distributing whatever one has materially, and meditation) one can come out of any sickness, old or new.
������������ ������our chaturthansh ������������������fourth portion of total food consumed ��������� ����service of God) is still untouched in the morning, what should we do?
Ans: The Lord has said in Bhagwad Gita that if a devotee shares food with Him with love and devotion, He would surely come to receive it. So if your chaturthansh is not being consumed by a living being at night, you need to work more on the bhava (intention) with which you are performing the act of
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so two meals a day is @������� �������X ��adults, it is needed only for repair and maintenance of cells in the body, that too depending upon the level of physical exertion. For instance, a farmer or a casual labourer needs to eat more food compared to a person in a desk job as more physical activity means more cell breakage. In all cases, an adult should have one full meal a day because unnecessary strain is put on the body when a person eats more than what is required by the body.
Care should be taken that food gets consumed only after physical work, not before it. Meals should be followed by adequate rest to aid the process of digestion and not the other way round.
month, then set aside one-fourth of it as ‘food budget in service of God’, then distribute food purchased from this money but do it all with a good bhava in the heart.
Ques: Is the same quantity of food good for any person �������� ���� �����according to body-type?
Ans: Quantity of food consumed should depend upon age i.e. whether the person is below or above 25 years of age, and on the amount of physical labour he or she indulges in during the day. A very basic point to understand is that food is not the source of energy as the � ��������������������deep sleep or during meditation.
Food is a building material for children below 25 years as their bodies are growing
sharing.
Many a times, we get doubtful about who should be eating the food we put aside, human beings or animals, which kind of animals and so on. For instance, some people prefer feeding cows than say a dog or a pig. The point is that every living being is a representation of God so we should leave the food outside home with an intention and prayer that God, in any form, can have it and oblige us. When this feeling will strengthen, be sure that your chaturthansh will get consumed.
For some reason if daily sharing of food is not possible, then make it a habit of sharing food with devotion every month and in bulk. A simple way is to estimate quantity of food consumed by you per
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RETURN TO NATURE
Despite constant search
for the perfect recipe for
well-being of humans
through ages, mutually
agreeable answers
continue to remain
illusive. Biologists,
physicists, doctors,
anthropologists and
scientists from other
schools of thought have
given it their all in trying
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for human beings to be
perfectly healthy. For
instance, they have all
ceaselessly pondered in
theory and experimented
in laboratories to
discover what the most
suitable diet regime
for humans could be.
Answers to this question
have changed from time
to time and continue to
get deliberated upon.
However, the situation
is not entirely bleak
either. The Bible says,
“The benevolent Lord
has provided everything
for us, including what
is most appropriate to
eat. He has given us
abundantly available
plants and trees that give
fruits and seeds that can
be re-sown.” As has been
very rightly pointed out
in the Bible, experience
of wise ones shows that
people who stay close
to Nature and try and
remain in alignment with
it, live far longer and
healthier lives. No matter
what science says or
suddenly discovers as a
‘new principle’ for health,
people who have lived in
constant alignment with
Nature have proved the
Bible’s claim in reality.
Even if one looks
around at the lives of
beings from the animal
kingdom, we would see
that all of them live in
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with Nature. They
eat what is naturally
available to them, and
even then, they know
what to avoid even if
present in vicinity like
poisonous plants etc. For
instance, a baby sparrow
knows what it has to eat
the moment the mother
sparrow puts it out of the
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A fawn starts eating
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a baby squirrel starts
looking for nuts and a
baby fox starts searching
for mice when it gets
hungry. Who guides
these animals about
eating preferences? Like
animals, human beings
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also have an intuition,
and we need to practice
cultivating trust on the
inner voice with regard
to diet and well-being.
In the past, much before
humans started clearing
forests for establishing
industries or houses, they
were naturally provided
with a wide variety of
fruits and vegetables
to eat, without them
having to grow anything.
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natural vegetation,
including fruits and
nuts, depending upon
season, soil and climate
type. Gradually, as man
became ‘modern’ he
started interfering with
natural cycles of food
production. In place of
eating raw and fresh food
in its natural form, man
started eating it cooked,
thus deteriorating its
quality.
Even then, every person
should try to return
to Nature as much
as his or her capacity
progressively allows. For
instance, a person can
make his diet as simple
as possible to begin
with. He can start eating
more of uncooked food
compared to cooked food
by focusing more on raw
salads and fruits. That
way, he will be closer to
Nature because he will be
eating in alignment with
the way Nature designed
him to eat.
Additionally, he can
avoid food altogether
when feeling unwell.
That way too, he is in
alignment with what
Nature seeks of him
at that time. Fasting
during sickness is only
logical because the bodily
function of digestion
consumes maximum
energy of a person. When
he saves that energy,
then the body’s energy
naturally gets directed
inwards, towards
healing the person. If
you notice carefully,
animals stop eating
when they are unwell.
As Nature would have
it, they come out of the
sickness fully recovered,
without having to resort
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to any medicines at all.
Human beings, on the
other hand, are busily
stressing themselves
out, over-eating cooked
food which is heavy, oily,
spicy and stale. It is no
surprise that humans
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so many diseases and
associated miseries
as their basic lifestyle
becomes increasingly
unnatural. What
makes this worse is the
increasing dependence
on intoxicants like
alcohol and cigarettes
and stimulants like tea
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The whole notion of
‘taste’ has undergone a
sea change over time.
What people from the
older generations found
tasty, namely fruits
and vegetables in their
natural form, has become
increasingly ‘bland’ and
‘boring’ in the present
day and age. However,
there are people who
still enjoy eating raw
seasonal fruits instead
of making jams and
jellies out of them or
making salads from raw
vegetables instead of
frying them with spices
for added ‘taste’. It is
no wonder that people
from the former category
remain healthier and
happier compared to
the latter ones. A simple
reason for that is when
we spare the body the
agony of having to digest
spicy and heavy food, it
naturally functions better
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Raw food is alive with
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don’t take too much
energy from the body
to get assimilated while
the brain has to secrete
excessive acid and juices
to digest the cooked and
fried foods, which are
consumed in greater
quantities than the
body’s digestive capacity
or need.
Ideally, people doing
more of physical labour
should eat more cereals
besides fruits and
vegetables as the wear
and tear in their body
is more. Yet, people
with sedentary lifestyle
depend so much on
cereal-based foods
that tend to stick to
the intestines and are
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eliminate compared to
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vegetables, which are
best when eaten raw.
Thus, in order to be
closer to nature the
easiest way is to eat
food in its natural form
and key being eating :
seasonal, regional in raw
form.
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Like human beings this earth and all planet are born and die one day. The earth has circulation in the form of water which gets evaporated and then moves to other areas, where it causes growth of plants. Plants can be compared with our epithelial cells, which grow, develop and dry, like layers of skin. Animals on this earth are like bacterias, viruses and body cells i.e., RBC, WBC, platelets and other �������Z�"��������������������"���������*����%�������������������������"������ ����� ���Our body cells also live ����"����������������survive for variable periods. One animal kills the other, like the state of our body where ‘K’ lymphocyte
and granulocyte may kill infected cells or organism to keep our body free from diseases.
We have a lot of harmless bacterias known as commensals in our body. When an organism grows in our body, it may survive till the population of that pathogen is small. Once this population exceeds the tolerable limits, our defence comes into play. The leukocytes and antibodies tend to control the pathogens to protect our body from
undue damage. If that fails we take drugs or use other methods, so that pathogens may be killed. If the population of pathogens exceeds certain limit, it may be fatal to the host also.
We must understand that same is the situation of nature. Human race was also like commensals on this earth, when its demands were met by things produced on the earth surface by natural process. Now our demands and population both have increased and ����������������\������ �����%������ ��%� ��%�ore, gas etc. We have made earth surface hot and behaved like pathogens. If we do not change our ways, mother nature will use its resources to teach us
ARE DISEASES CURSE OF NATURE?Dr. S.S.L.Srivastava, M.D
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a lesson, by way of calamities. The other thing which may happen is that, we may multiply more, become more pathogenic and ultimately destroy the earth, the planet which is our abode and on which we are living. Remember, our race can survive only if this planet is alive and healthy.
Every creature has adopted a particular ways of living, food habits and modes of protection or shelter, but our human race is daily changing its ways of living and is constantly eating resources of our nature, not bothering what will be its long term �"�����;�����������development has made people fearless and cruel towards fellow persons and other creatures. Members of almost all species live in harmony
and care for their fellow members. Even if there is shortage of food, the vegetarian animals like deer or goats do not start killing each other. They all move in search of food. They generally live in herds and protect each other from various dangers. The man on the other hand tries to snatch others bread. A person may not hesitate to kill others for his own � �� ����������%�� ��his personal pleasure and can commit any crime.
Apart from atrocities on our own race, we also try to kill animals just for our taste. Some ������ ����� �����������������������@��� �give pleasure to one individual.
In the name of teaching or research, thousands of innocent animals are ��������������%���� ����������� ����� ����+�
is funny that in teaching curriculum, even today such experiments are used and lives of many ��������������������%�may it be frog, guinea-pig, rabbit, mouse or any other.
These dissections have never been useful in life after passing that class. I have asked hundreds of persons, regarding usefulness of such foolish experiments and always the reply has been in negative. The similar dissections are carried out in grade 10th, 12th, graduation and post graduation and even in medical course where animals are killed for nothing.
One must know why we all do not deplore such cruel and useless experiments, where life of some poor �������������������� ��nothing? Why do we not
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realise their pain and torture? Why don’t we understand the simple law of nature that every action has an equal and opposite reaction?
+���������������� ��others and torture innocent creatures, nature will prosecute us and give us pain. It is quite possible that the increase in human diseases and other ��"������������� � ���such unlawful actions. One of which is to ����%����������������kill so many innocent animals, either for experiments or for taste.
We must understand that every such criminal act is seen by nature. Do not feel nature is blind or it is kind and will forgive us. Nature always gives us a long rope. It is up to us, how
to use it.
Our mother nature has a lot of love for all of us. She gives us so much without our demand, till we behave like good children. She can also punish us if that is required. If we become proud of our achievements we shall be taught a lesson by nature.
If a portion of body becomes diseased it has to be treated. Some time treatment may be surgery, in which that portion is even removed. If a parasite in our body produces necrosis that parasite has to be killed. Why should we presume that mother nature will not react to our misdeeds and will go on tolerating �������������]�Small calamities are the reactions. We are frequently
getting earthquakes, � ��%��� ���������epidemics. We often cry due to such happenings, but do not take a lesson from them. These are corrective measures of nature for our misconduct and transgression.
Nature often reminds us of our limitations by teaching us small lessons but we have become almost deaf and blind, due to our achievements, that is why we are hurting and harming it daily for our petty gains. We have changed atmosphere by pollution. Lithosphere is being damaged by dams, drilling and removing its epithelial cover, the forests. Hydrosphere has been made inhabitable for many creatures. How long can the nature tolerate it?
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yagna. He later spoke at
length about the Guru’s
life and how he lived
what he preached. He
also quoted from the
Bhagwad Gita and
communicated to us the
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service, devotion and
love towards mankind,
of the importance of
playing our role within
the concept of dharma
in the ‘karambhomi’ that
life presents us with.
Pujya Malti Maa, who
is the present spiritual
head of IASS, blessed
the devotees while
fondly remembering
Guruji. She elaborated
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relevance of the
principles of Tap-Seva-
Sumiran, especially
in today’s fast-paced
‘modern’ day and age.
She hoped that youth
would imbibe these
principles and make the
society a better place to
live in.
With fond yet tearful
renditions from
experiences with the
Guru all day through,
the very eventful day
culminated with a
solemn dinner.
The programme was
conducted from the
podium by Dr. Gopal
Shastri.
About a hundred sadhaks
gathered from all over
the country at Badari
Narayan Sevagram,
Meerut, to celebrate the
birthday of param pujya
Akhileshji Maharaj on
the 2nd of March.
The event was a grand
success as devotees
from all walks of life
participated in singing
bhajans, sharing their
experiences with the
Guru and eating heartily
at the bhandara.
Swami Prahladji
Maharaj, who had
especially arrived
at the Ashram from
Naimisharan, began the
day by conducting holy
Pujya Akhilesh ji jayanti
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