1. Role of Diet in Our SpiritualUnfoldmentThe secret of being healthy and happy at all times is to be a little hungry at all times. Do notoverload stomach, never ever. Over-eating is the chief cause of most diseases. The vastmajority of persons dig their graves through their teeth.This tip is an insurance for beinghappy, healthy and harmonious for everSwami SivanandaAn alcohol addict pollutes his physical, astral and mental cells apart from polluting the ethericenvironment around him. Our body is a divine artwork of God. Hence, we should take verybest care of our body. Feeding physical body also feeds the inner subtle bodies. Our dailyfood habits have a revealing effect on our destiny, apart from general health and well-being. 2. Swami Sivananda (from his book Bliss Divine) on Right Diet andModerate Eating - 1(He was a qualified medical doctor of great reputation before renouncing the material world) Though we all boast ourselves as civilized men, yet, when the question of food comes, wefalter and make blunders invariably. An average person eats twice as much as his systemneeds. It hinder assimilation, elimination and growth. All the organs get over-worked andget diseased quickly. Hence, avoid over-eating at all times; in fact, eat multiple times a day,but each time, in moderation. Next comes, the right kind of food intake. Remember, good food, healthy food is notexpensive. A well-balanced diet is not costly. It is the knowledge of dietetics that wehopelessly lack. Meat Diet Generates Diseases: Meat generates diseases, excites passions, and producesrestlessness of mind. A very large number of medical men who have studied the subject ofdiet in relation to health are forbidding their patients to eat animal flesh, not only as ameans of cure for such diseases as gout, rheumatism, etc., but also as a preventive againsturic- acid ailments and diseases of many kinds, including cancer, and appendicitis. 3. Swami Sivananda (from his book Bliss Divine) on Right Dietand Moderate Eating - 2 Flesh-eating involves the exercise of cruelty which is not an elevating virtue. It is a bestialquality which degrades man. Cruelty is condemned by all great men. Pythagoras (a greatMathematician, BrahmGyani and Spiritual Master) condemned meat diet as a sinful food. Man is created a frugivorous or fruit-eating creature. What is needed is a well-balanced diet,not a rich diet. A rich diet produces diseases of the liver, kidneys, and pancreas. A well-balanceddiet helps a man to grow, to turn out more work, increases his body-weight, andkeeps up efficiency, stamina, and a high standard of vim and vigor. People who are slaves to the flesh-eating habit cannot give up animal diet. They try to justifytheir habit by various arguments and statistics. One cannot change their ways merely byargumentation and disputation. It is best to shun their company and association beyondbusiness matters. 4. (6/5/4) 1. - ,2. ,3. () 4. + 5. 6. , , , , , 7. , 5. (17/8) (17/9) - ; ; , - ; - (, , , , , , , , / ; , ) , , , , ; , , ; ; ; (-) , , , ; - 6. 17/10 1. , , - ;2. ;3. - ,, , ;4. + - ;5. ;6. , 7. , , 8. , , , , - , , (7/24) , - 7. 5/10/9 - - ; , , Tonsils Appendix surgery , , , (Clairvoyance) , - - - - - - (7/11) 8. ( 17/7) - , , , , , , , , , , , , , - , , ,, , , , , ( , ) - , , , , , - (, , -, ) 9. ( ) It is a literal fact that from everyone of our bodies emanations go out. They fall upon thebodies around them, upon human beings, plants, and minerals, and thus is continuing thisconstant interaction between all things amongst which we live, so as to make a linkbetween you, and every body, and everything else, and constituting the drink habit notonly a curse to the people who drink, but to the community and the nation. Men who put alcohol into their bodies make the alcohol mark on the atoms of which thosebodies are composed. They scatter those atoms, stamped with alcohol, over the whole ofthe community, and sober people get these atoms into their bodies and suffer in thatfashion from the drunken habits of their neighbors. A man has no more right to drink, and to scatter these poisoned atoms through thecommunity, than he has a right, if he has small-pox, to go into an omnibus or cab and leavethere the poison of smallpox to be absorbed by the next person who occupies the seat hehas quitted. 10. Ramana Maharshis Revelations about Food & Fasting Fasting should be chiefly mental. Like, I will not harbor any ill-will of others today. Oneshould resolve to resort to harmonious and compassionate thoughts step-by-step. Such afasting is liked by God, not the fasting from food. Spiritual unfoldment will arrive by regulating the eating habits. Sleep and food should not betaken in excess. The quality of food feeds the mind and it is the mind that matterstakeSatvik food in limited quantities. This itself is a Yoga. First food-yoga and then only do mind-yoga,the results will be faster, fabulous and forbearing on the Self, the Knower. Whilst he was still in teens, he experienced a few lasting changes in himself. All of a sudden hebecame meek and submissive to anyone and everyone. He had no longer any likes or dislikesfor food. Whatever was given to him, tasty or insipid, good or bad, he would swallow with likeindifference. One day, thieves broke into the ashram and Maharshi counselled disciples and visitors to letthem have anything they wanted. He remained calm during the incident even when struck byone of the thieves.