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as it rolls around tongue and odour molecules from the ground-up food inside the mouth float upwards and that remarkable smell journey thus clearly increases senses of taste and smell besides metabolism of food and oxygen in the body. As one begins to realize the current of consciousness flowing in the sense organs and mind one proceeds progressively from sensory organs to that to the extra sensory experience.
Ayambil, the austerity called, is considered very auspicious and efficacious. Jains consider it better than fasting for the day. Ayambil is only eating one item of food, which should be bland, boiled or cooked, and devoid of enhanced taste, milk, curd, ghee and green or raw vegetable. It calls for lot of munching. A parable has been narrated by a country folk of deserts of India, where water is scarce and very deep in the earth. They adopt a practice exactly as Ayambil and within six months of practice religiously, they develop extra sensory skill which helps them to know the depth of water and whether it is potable in the earth just by smelling the top surface of the earth. Long experience tells that Ayambil is helpful in treating paralysis and can control diabetes and cholesterol.
Mastication acts as a potent antioxidant by inhibiting the process called lipid per oxidation (oxidation of fats, including cholesterol and its components). Scientists say that life is oxidation. Oxidation results from the breakdown of oxygen molecules as they combine with other molecules in our body. Biological system, e.g. eating, breathing cell metabolism etc. creates oxidants. The common
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