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Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra
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Acharya Shri Kailassagarsuri Gyanmandir
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Food can influence the atoms in us. Foul food pollutes the mind and wholesome food keeps it pure. We cannot go to a foreign country without a passport. In the same manner without wholesome food we cannot traverse from noble thoughts to noble deeds and from deeds to noble existence.
Now-a-days people do not care for the quality of the food they eat. 80% of people eat such food as brings a roaring business to doctors. Food which is devoid of quality upsets the stomach. Hotels flourish and hospitals also increase in number. For both the cause is the absence of discipline and choice with respect to food.
Hotels warn people against going to them. Their names are written in big letters, 'Hindu Hotel'. 'Hindu Hotel' means 'If you are a Hindu 'tel-lurn away-get away from us. If you come in you will lose your health.' But people who are slaves to taste go to hotels.
The love of taste is in the mind. The hunger of the stomach can be satisfied by wholesome food but the hunger of the mind cannot be satisfied thus. People who are slaves of taste keep visiting hotels and hospitals and wasting money.
The best way to keep up the purity of our mind is to learn to live properly in the present and to keep the mind free from worries about the future. Darwin proved that man evolved from the apeman (monkey) but if we ask a monkey it will say that man is the corrupt form of the monkey because the monkey is free from the worries about the past and the future, while man is not. The monkey is totally delivered from worries. It lives in the present above the worries of the past and the future. We should derive light and inspiration from the past. The past should not be a burden to us. If our present life is joyful, gentle and pure, our future also will be good. Therefore, we should not commit the error of plunging into the past and flowing through the future. We should swim through the present.
As long as the boat keeps sailing on the water, there is no need for any fear or worry. Fear and worry begin
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