Get up in the morning and rinse your mouth and drink some fresh water. Get up before sunrise, take a bath and sit quietly and worship God. This will make the day pass comfortably. Sleeping after sunrise in the morning is not good for health.
Have dinner before sunset - Digestion of food takes place due to the heat of the sun. The digestive process becomes weak while sleeping. Therefore, one should sleep at least three hours after having dinner or lunch. Some people like Jains eat before sunset. This makes it easy to digest food before sleeping. This is a good rule. Eating late at night does not leave enough time for digestion. If one has to eat at night, it is better to take fruits and milk. At night, one should have company of a man or woman three hours after dinner. Having company before this causes stomach upset. One should sleep after having satsang and worshiping God. Do not sleep on your back or straight. Wash hands and feet with cold water while sleeping in summer. This will help you sleep well and you will not have any nocturnal emission. It is not good to lie on the bed and wait for sleep. You should lie on the bed only when you feel sleepy.
Before eating- Drink a glass of water one hour before. It is good to add juice of half a lemon to the water and drink it. Then drink a sip of water before starting the meal. Wash hands, feet and mouth before eating. Washing the feet opens the mouth of the gastric fire.
While eating- Food should be eaten in a happy mind. Do not drink water while eating. If needed, you can drink one or two sips. Drink water one hour after eating. One glass of buttermilk should be taken at the end of the meal. One should laugh out loud after eating, this will digest the food quickly and there will be no constipation. Keep five basil leaves in the food. Their regular consumption prevents malaria. Milk should be drunk half an hour after eating. Food should not be stuffed. One should eat less than hunger, in old age the digestive power becomes weak, one has to work less. In this state, food should be eaten less.
After food—After food, walking a hundred steps helps in proper digestion of the food. After this, first lie down straight and take eight breaths, then take sixteen breaths on the right side and then take thirty-two breaths on the left side. After this, do whatever you wish. Above the navel, on the left side is the place of fire, therefore, to digest food, one should sleep on the left side only—'Bhavaprakash'. Sitting after eating makes one lazy and drowsy. Sleeping strengthens the body. While washing hands and face, take a sip of water in the mouth and splash it on the eyes. This improves the eyesight. Walk a little farther, after food, the power to close the left nostril increases, drink water before sleeping at night. Drinking filtered water is beneficial for health. After eating food, one should rest for half an hour because when the food reaches the stomach, the nature starts digesting it and more blood starts flowing into the stomach so that digestive juices can be produced in more quantity. Therefore, if physical or mental work is done immediately after eating, bathing or sensual pleasure is taken or food is taken soon after these, then also due to blood circulation going in the other direction, less blood reaches the stomach and less gastric juice is produced, digestive juice becomes weak. Weak people and those who have poor digestion should rest or walk slowly after eating.
Only the disciplined life of the mother keeps the child healthy. A woman should not feed milk to the child immediately after sexual intercourse. This removes heat from the body of the child. Massage with mustard oil should be done at least once a week. One should not worry. Worrying causes as much harm to health as any disease. Those who do not worry while falling ill, get well soon. Have the feeling that 'I am getting healthy!'. If you sit pressing the teeth of the jaw while going to the toilet, the teeth do not loosen for the whole life. Paralysis also does not occur. If diabetic patients go for a long run every morning and evening, then sugar in urine will stop without medicine. In Soviet Union, the Institute of Gerontology has found out that old age is not the time to sit comfortably but to work hard. This keeps the health good even in old age.
Sitting with the back bent is inviting old age early. By putting pressure on the left leg while defecating, piles do not occur and the stool is clean. By keeping the teeth clenched while defecating, the teeth remain strong. Mahatma Buddha says that “One who eats light food once is a ‘Mahatma’, one who eats cautiously twice is a ‘wise man’ and one who eats more than that is a ‘great fool’.” Dr. D.G. Patwardhan of Maharashtra’s Eye Doctors Association has said that indiscriminate use of sunglasses is dangerous. This destroys the natural ability of the eyes to bear bright light.
Laughter – Laughter is the best medicine. Laughing strengthens the muscles of the stomach, blood circulation increases and the body gets exercised.
The cause of pain is indigestion.
The treatment is not of the disease, but of the patient; not of the body, but of the vital force – the organ of homeo. Prana (life force) which keeps the body active.
The external appearance of the world is the light of the inner mind – those who want the external conditions to be good – C.H. Keyserling., should improve the inner mind.
The three greatest physicians are time, nature and patience. Health Mantra - The person who works with faith in God and dedicates all his work to Him, he overcomes all the diseases, illnesses and problems of the world and his wishes are fulfilled. If a person has started hating himself, understand that his end has come.
