Passage 11

In English

In order to protect one's health, one has to follow a certain set of rules, a code of conduct and habits. Now, in this creation again, you have any number of life forms, of species. In fact, the different types of life forms have been classified into eighty-four lakh species. They do not give you the total number of lives, but life forms, species. Out of these eighty-four lakh species of life forms that you have, eighty-three lakh, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine types tend to eat food which is not cooked. They eat, instead, food which is natural and available in the world. This food that is available in nature is taken by them. They do not seek to change them. So, you find that these eighty-three , nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine species of life forms enjoying peak health. But of course, it does happen that because of climatic variations and factors which are beyond one's control, some of these life forms also do come to grief.