In plain words
One who eats three times, they said, is a rogī. Today it is not three, but times without number, madhye madhye pānīyaṃ samarpayāmi. Coffees, tiffins: all these we put in. When this inert body thus has no proper power to digest, how can it not fall ill with indigestion? Every minute one calorie is spent. Young people can well eat two thousand calories. To stay in balance in the right way, 1500 calories a day give good health. But today we eat four thousand, five thousand calories. So sleep does not come. All kinds of distorted feelings come to him. In these distorted feelings he forgets his own form. He falls ill. So we must keep the body within limits as far as possible, build up its health, and set about carrying out our duties and actions on the proper path. We must not build up the delusion of the body beyond measure.
The possessiveness of 'this is mine' and the Ahaṅkāra of 'I': these two alone are the root cause of all evils. So we must try to reduce to some extent the sense of being the doer and the enjoyer. Only then can we offer a fine and ideal life. In certain psychological ways too, illness comes into our life. Examin yourselves from time to time. If you check, 'Is my pulse right or not?', it goes up or it goes down. We should not take our pulse with this kind of thought. We must carry on our life with the self confidence that all is in order. They will then start up in order of themselves. If you lie down saying, 'Tonight I must sleep well, I must sleep', that night sleep does not come. So do not think about sleep; breathe easily. Deep sleep comes. All these are illnesses the body has. They are weaknesses. Only when we change this body, with so many weaknesses, to some extent through divinity does it attain the form of all strength. All the great souls of old kept to this. To experience this divinity, they wished to live that long. Today, once someone is sixty or seventy years old, they call him an old man. But in olden times, even at 80, 90, 100, they were young men.
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