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*It is absolutely necessary to think of the condition of your body and constitution while taking food. You must know the condition of the three humours bile, phlegm and of gas. (Pittha, Kapha and Vatha).
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* When should we eat food? What food should be How much food should be eaten? How should food be taken? It is absolutely necessary to pay attention to these things.
*Consuming food and water unnecessarily may cause or increase physical ailments. It may cause indolence. It may make the mind dull and lethargic.
* A healthy body assists spiritual endeavours. Physical health helps to bring about mental happiness and satisfaction. Never neglect your physical health.
*You should always take balanced and controlled diet.
*Do not eat or drink to the extent that it can affect your mental state and balance. "Food is ours but the stomach is somebody else's". This is not the right principle. "The stomach is ours but food is somebody else's". You must bear this point in mind.
*Keep your stomach a stomach. Do not make it a godown or a rubbish-bin putting into it whatever you get and whenever you get it.
DISCOURSE 71
The ocean of Supreme compassion, the profound scriptural scholar, Acharyashri Haribhadrasoori while expounding the ordinary principles of the grihasthadharma in his work Dharmabindu describes the twentieth ordinary principle namely: "You must take food at the right time in accordance with the nature of your body i.e. constitution". Food is intimately connected
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