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6. Excessive spicy food excites the passions.
— Āva. Ni. 1280
7. Those who take wholesome and healthy food, in lesser
quantity, never fall sick and do not need the services of a physician. They are their own physicians.
- 0. Ni. 578
8. Knowledge is instrumental for emancipation and the body
is instrumental for the acquisition of knowledge. Hence an aspirant is permitted to take regulated diet for the sustenance of the body.
- Ni. Bhā. 4159 9. Intake of food after sunset is prohibited.
- Utta. Sū. 19.31
10. To eat minimum food is always beneficial.
— Ni. Bhā. 2951
Sixty Five Company of the Virtuous
1. Company of the virtuous promotes progressively scrip
tural study, knowledge (especial higher knowledge ), detachment, self-restraint, stoppage of karmic influx, austerities, annihilation of previously acquired karmas, state of inaction and final emancipation.
— Bha. Sū. 2.111 2. A person in solitude is subject to all kinds of doubts and
uncertainties at every moment. Hence the company of the holy and virtuous should be sought.
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