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a simple and positive way enjoy the successful completion of their healthy age. Those who are wise in diet-resistant, get the natural boon of enjoying 36,500 nights successfully.
Two or three months pass over. The lamb becomes very fatty. One day the owner of that house reaches to the enclosure of animals with a big sharp knife in order to arrange a feast for the guests at home. The calf hesitates and asks his cow mother why the owner had reached there with a big sharp knife. The mother told him not to hesitate for the beings who keep reliant regarding their diet, have no fear. The owner entered the enclosure and quickly jumped over the lamb and cut the lamb by his neck. The calf began trembling of fear but the cow mother assured him that those who keep control over the diet, have no fear but those who make their body fatty by the things freely attained, have to repent like the lamb in their life.
Increase the diet if untimely death is to be invited. If the death is to be avoided, control over the number of dishes being taken. If someone has much indigestion, he should decrease the number of dishes, he takes. He should control over his diet, his diseases will automatically be over. If man eats much, he will suffer much.
I tell you a miraculous incident happened at Jodhpur city in Rajasthan. It can't be believed but we have seen it with our naked eyes and still it is continuous. There is a lady, mother of Kamlaji Gandhi. She is a very pious lady. She is suffereing from diabetes. Such a dangerous disease that she has to visit hospital twice-thrice in a day. On the day of Akshay Tritiya i.e. the third day of Vaishakh month, considered very auspicious for the beginning of anything etc. she wished for keeping a fast. It is surprising that she kept on fasting for whole the day. We suggested her not to keep on fasting in old diabetic age but she did not move from her decision. She argued that so many people had offered 108
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