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Nirwana (Deliverance)
Lord was as graceful without as within His inner grace was inborn and it found its culmination by virtue of his austenties His physical grace was a nature's gift and was perfected and perpetuated by virtue of his health He was a paragon of fitness all his life Only once was he required to administer drug and that also necessiated by Gaushalak causing affliction by means of his occultism He owed his health to three factors — 1 Abstemious regimen of diet 2 Perfect discrimination between the body and the self 3 Dissolution of the mental gland of attachment or aversion
Over-eating and psycho-physical tension cause ill-health The Lord was free from all tensions and as a result in the pick of his health all his life
Even during his householder's life the Lord had fully conquered the taste His food consisted of limited quantity and limited varieties The days of fast outnumber those of eating in his spiritual career Execessive fasting brought about certain bio-chemical changes in his constitution Of course, he grow a little thin but he was fully resistant to invasions of disease, Indigenous medicine sets great store by fasting The great ancient physician Ashwini Kumar roamed about in the guise of a yogi He met Vagbhatta, another renowned physician. He asked the latter, 'Worthy physician! Pray
