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* The atma when it enters the womb and begins to
live, first begins consuming food. After that the body, the senses, the mind, language, etc. take
shape. * We should eat to live; we should not live to eat. * The happy life may be defined thus. If a man has
a healthy body – a healthy mind - clarity in speech and a perfect balance in respiration, he may be said to be happy. Too much of interest in food
and addiction to the sense of taste ruin life. * Understand clearly the difference between hunger
and a taste for food. You must teach your children when they should eat food; how they should eat food and what kind of food they should
eat. * People devoid of culture cannot live according to
the principles of the Sangha (the four-fold Jain
society) and do not do any good to society. * You should not have so much desire for anything
that you cannot give it up even when you are ill. * Keep off sickness and enmity but if they appear in
your life try to get rid of them. This is an ethical
principle. Nexenerererererere
DISCOURSE 72
The ocean of Supreme compassion, the profound scriptural scholar, Acharyashri Haribhadrasooriji expounds the ordinary principles of the grihasthadharma in the beginning of his work Dharmabindu. The twentieth principle he has expounded is that we should eat the food that agrees with our constitution and we should eat food at the right times. Food is associated with life. When a human being takes birth, the very first thing he does is to consume food. As soon as a child is born, it begins crying. Why does it cry? It cries because it feels hungry. It sucks milk from its mother's breast and it gets pacified. The
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