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Spiritual - Spirituality is progress, demands progress physical, mental, and spiritual, therefore food which helps the progress of these should be selected. First strength, calmness, peace and stability of mind is helped by wheat, peas, beans, lentils, rice, and milk. Second, food the nature of which makes us active industrious is the starch and fatty food, nuts, etc. Third, food which makes us slothful should be avoided, they are those dense foods close and difficult of digestion also vegetables grown underground.
So the answer to "what shall we eat ?” is “Nuts, cereals, fruit, milk, butter and sugar”, namely, a vegetarian diet is the best for spiritual and moral progress, and so, for our concentration which has for its object the development of the spiritual nature, as a side issue, the food most suitable is the vegetarian.
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