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25214) SPIRITUAL LIGHT. ...cell-colony, wherein all cells are united by law. of common well-bọing-the organic life. .
The requirements of body are as much the l'equi rements of the cells, as the requirements of the army or the city are the requirements of the soldiers or the citizens.
• The body-the call republic-is healthy and happy, if the individual cells are healthy and happy. The body inspires oxygen that the cells may have oxygen. The body requires the carbonic acid gas that the cells may get rid of its carbonic acid gas. The body gets rid of its secretions and excretions that the cell may get rid of its secretion and excretions. The body eats and drinks, that the cells may be nourished and supplied with food and water. The cell respines, eats, digests assimilates, secrets, excrets works, rests and multiplies. It is healthy or diseased.
When the cells are overloaded with organic refuge and waste and are unable to eliminate them, the cellular function deteriorates, and the whole body suffers. Rheumatism, Gout, Dyspepsia, Pneumonia, and other diseases are apparent instances of such inability of the cells to throw off their wastes-toxins The fasting in such cases is really an immediate and unfailing successful remedy.
According to Jainism, Tapa is classified under two heads, Bahya ( external) and Antaranga ( internal ). The one refers to the restraint of the physical body and the other to mind. The Bahya is again
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