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Taking wine means to us stimulating certain feelings in the body, and that nature can be gotten rid of by the use of water. When a person is very angry the religious teacher asks him to take a bath at once and he is pacified in this way. Of course, such tbings are not to be found every day, because with the Hindus, there is no such things as the weekly bath; they take the bath early in the morning, generally. Their idea of life and their science being different, thier remedies for various evils are also different. With regard to the time of eating, I may say that in our city, we have only two meals, but in the country where people have to work so much barder, there must be three meals. but there must be a certain interval and no eating between meals. Anything taken between meals, stops the process of digestion. One great rule is, do not take the second meal until the first is digested. It takes about three hours to digest one meal, and, therefore, the two meals should be at least four hours apart. With the Jain communities, there are many rules not observed by other people. One is not to take any food after sunset, because of the beneficial influence of the sunlight, which is with drawn, of course, at the time. There are other reasons, based on occult science, for not taking food after sunset, and there are innumerable finer and deeper and unknown forces present in nature everywhere, that
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