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milk at early in the morning instead of taking bed tea. Man should take the diet like the diets of gods. He should think the existence of gods in his own inner conscience and should take pious and vegetarian food. Those who think gutkha, bidies, cigars etc. the sources of entertainment are wrong in their thinking. Infact, these things are sources of their deterioration.
There are two kinds of people in the world. The first one is the people who practise rigorous and austere meditation. They keep on fasting for many days, even for weeks and months continuously as they want to make any world record. The second types of people enjoy their body well. They believe in the notion 'Eat, drink and be merry.' Such types of people are also making atrocities with their body. The body is like the strings of lyre that should neither be much tightened nor be left much loose. It should be meditated by simple, pious and virtuous vegetarian diet.
It is said a person had a cows and a calf. He had a lamb at his home too. The cow was milked and the milk was taken by the family members. The remaining milk was served to the lamb. The calf tells to his cow mother, “Mother! How cruel our owner is that you provide him milk and he gives only dry grass in return to you. And the lamb which gives nothing but takes the diet well in the best way only. Mother, do see our diet, please.”
Mother replied, “Dear! Don't get worried. If an owner provides so rich diet to any animal, it is certain there is something wrong in it. Horrible danger may appear to him but you need not get hesitated. We are satisfying our hunger with whatever dry things we get and the animals taking simple and pious vegetarian food are never afraid of any danger.
The calf told to his mother that she was only coxing him but the mother always taught him that those who live in
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