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SANATAN JAINA,
to be exercised is that of self-govern stand the reason for taking & bath. ment. When one can do that, he can Taking wine means to us stimulat. rule other people and teach them to rule ing certain fellings in the body, and themselves. In our schools for girls, that nature can begotten rid of by cooking is one of the branches. The the use of water. When a person is school-mistress every day teaches all very angry the religious teacher asky the different modes of cooking rice him to take a bath &t once and he is and of making bread and other arti- pacified in this way. Of course, such cles of food, so that at the age of ten things are not to be found every day. or twelve, all the girls know how to cook because with the Hindus, there is no anything, so that after graduating, such thing as the weekly bath; they the girls are not required to learn take the bath early in the morning, anything else, so far as cooking is con. generally. Their idea of life and cerned From the earliest age, the their science being different, their girl 898ists her mother and the mother remedies for various evils are also asks her first to pick the pebbles of different. With regard to the time the rice, wash the vegetables, and so on of eating, I may say that in hour city, and she assists her mother in other we have only two meals, but in the duties of the household as she grows country where people have to work so older. Tut when everything is left much harder, there must be three to, the servants. bow is it possible to meals, but there must be a certain inlead a healthy life? We must first terval and no eating between meals. understand the object of life, the rais. Anything taken between meals, stops ing of humanity on all three planes the process of digestion. One great of being. But how is this to be done? rule is, do not take the second meal Unless all the members are raised, if until the first is digested. It takes the good of individuals is not advanc. about three hours to digest one meal, ed the good of the whole society can and, therefore, the two meals should not be advanced.
be at least four hours apart. With With regard to drink, I should the Jain communnities, there are say that until the advent of British many rules not observed by other rule, the Hindus did not know what people. One is not to take any food tes was. I, myself did not taste tes after sunset, because of the beneficial before I was twenty years old, and influence of the sunlight, which is with. even in this day, in our small towns drawn, of course, at that time. There and villages, the people never use it. are other reasons, based on occult They consider it kind of medicine, science, for not taking food after sun. and an acquired taste like this is not set, and there are innumerable finer 8 Datural taste. The very nature of and deeper and unknown forces pretea is stimulating, and the natural sent in nature everywhere, that unless result is nervousness. People who we study all of them from all stand. drink much tea, do not know how to points, can never be fully understood keep still. Our simple drink in by us. The reason of our little acts, India is water, and that, also, is not which who perform every day, are mixed with anything. The Germans also occult in their meaning, but sometimes think water is not enough, which we cannot fully understand and so they drink beer, but that is unless we have studied deeply into not allowed in our communities, and these sciences, and have lived the if a person even touches wine he life peculiar to the Yogis; but those takes & bath. If you understand the who pursue studies, can know many science of the aura which comes out things which are mystical to ordinary from the human body, you will under people.
V. R. G.
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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