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The Science of Eating From the earliest age, the girl assists her mother and the mother asks her first to pick the pebbles of the rice, wash the vegetables, and so on, and she assists her mother in other duties of the household as she grows older. But when everything is left to, the servants, how is it possible to lead a healthy life? We must first understand the object of life, the raising of humanity on all three planes of being. But how is this to be done? Unless all the members are raised, if the good of individuals is not advanced the good of the whole society cannot be advanced.
With regard to drink, I should say that until the advent of British rule, the Hindus did not know what tea was. I, myself, did not taste tea before I was twenty years old, and even in this day, in our small towns and villages, the people never use it. They consider it kind of medicine, and an acquired taste like this is not a natural taste. The very nature of tea is stimulating, and the natural result is nervousness, people who drink much tea, do not know how to keep still. Our simple drink in India is water, and that, also, is not mixed with anything.
The Germans sometimes think water is not enough, and so they drink beer, but that is not allowed in our communities, and if a person even touches wine he takes a bath. If you understand the science of the aura which comes out from the human body, you will understand the reason for taking a bath. 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 things are not to be found every day, because with the Hindus, there is no such thing as the weekly bath; they take the bath early in the morning, generally. Their idea of life and their science being different, their remedies for various evils are also different. With regard to the time of eating, I may say that in hour city, we have only two meals,
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