Science Of Life

Author(s): U S Dugar
Publisher: U S Dugar

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pressure, irregular heartbeats, heart attacks, and sudden death.
There are many good and bad reasons why men die, but no underlying necessary reason why they must die. If the body's reserves are carefully hoarded they will carry us well beyond the century and a quarter mark with youthful enthusiasm and zest. Their depletion is one of the most common calamities of modern life. The root cause of any disease or malfunction is the accumulation of karma, toxic substances, in the body. The toxic accumulation depletes the cells of its oxygen and energy and promotes ill health. If metabolic wastes are not excreted it results death because body would become poisoned. The alkaloids and alcohols, with which gastro-intestinal decomposition charges our bodies, rob us of our reserves, greatly weaken our vital resistance and sooner or later produce a state of physiological collapse. The human body cures itself. But only when it is supplied with what it needs - sufficient oxygen- it will do what it was designed to do – that is, maintain health and keep diseases away. Breathing not only provides life-sustaining nourishment but proper breathing can also neutralize toxins in the body. There is no better medicine than oxygen and no better way to get it, without extra cost, than learning to control one's birth. Actually, the breathing can be an important therapy.
Mahavira has given a great deal of information revealing the mysteries about breathing of the earthly living beings with one sense to those with five senses. The minutest details about the order of breathing
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