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The Jaina Philosophy
but in the country where people have to work so much harder, there must be three meals, but there must be a certain interval and no eating between meals. Anything taken between meals stops the Process of digestion.
One great rule is, do not take the second meal until the first is digested. It takes about three hours to digest one meal, and, therefore, the two meals should be at least four hours apart. With the Jaina communities, there are many rules not observed by other people. One is not to take any food after sunset, because of the beneficial influence of the sunlight, which is withdrawn, of course, at that time. There are other reasons, based on occult science, for not taking food after sunset, and there are innumerable finer and deeper and unknown forces present in nature everywhere, that unless we study all of them from all standpoints, can never be fully understood by us. The reason of our little acts, which we perform every day, are also occult in their meaning, but which we cannot fully understand unless we have studied deeply into these sciences, and have lived the life peculiar to the Yogis; but those who pursue those studies, can know many things which are mystical to ordinary people.
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