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during the day. Disorders of wind too trouble more at night. All these problems occur at night because the heat of the sun is not there at that time. When there is heat, diseases are not aggravated. As the sun's heat wanes, diseases gain in strength. All the trouble-making elements become more potent.
Not only thieves even germs trouble only at night. It is not only insomnia that chooses nights to torment, even illness troubles at night.
An Acharya of long ago once gave a reason for prohibiting meals after dinner. It may or may not have scientific value, but it is definitely interesting.
Emperor Akbar had great respect for Acharya Hiravijayji. A few people resented it. One man went to the king and said, “Sire! You give a lot of importance to the words of the Jain Acharya but many of his ideas are wrong and his beliefs are baseless. We think of the Ganges as holy, but he does not. We think of sun as God, but he does not.” The king heard him and somewhere in his mind got a little perturbed. He asked Hiravijayji, “Do you not think of the Ganges as holy? Do you not think of sun as God?” Replied the Acharya, “Now, who told you that? We have great respect for the Ganges and the
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