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Our attitude towards food must be balanced. Those who eat dry food are prone to anger. Their nature becomes irritable. If along with dry food there is some oily tasty food then life goes on well. On every thing we have to reflect from the anekantic perspective. We should not accept anything from a single point of view. If the body has to be left, the body has also to be used as a vehicle. If food has to be given up, it has also to be eaten. If dry food is taken then along with it some oily tasty food should also be taken. Both should go together. If both the wheels go together only then does the chariot move. The chariot does not move on a single wheel. So a follower of anekanta can never give up balance in perspectives.
Bhagvan Mahavir was standing in the posture of meditation. A long time passed. He thought, “It seems that now my body will no longer give me support. I have to finish, break my penance, finish it.”
It is important to eat and give up food
From this we have got a new perspective. To make the body flawless, it is important to eschew food that acts as a deterrent to meditation. And yet to
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