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Dear Friends,as I entered Dr.Jayaram Soni’s clinic, I was taken over by the serene atmosphere, and I asked him the secret and he said with a smile ” Food for thought”. I asked him about food that can give mental peace. He said,” that’s something every one wants to know, so let us discuss this in detail.”

As per Dr. Soni, If you eat right, good health will surely be yours, and how satvik food can work wonders.

EATING IS A PLEASURE — We all seem to know this, but we ought to remember that we should all eat tot live and not vice versa.Whenever we chew food 22 times before swallowing it, it becomes sweet and is easily digested, especially the carbohydrates. And when digestation is easy, there is very little chance of fat accumalation.Freshly cut fruits and vegetables provide the best nutrition.

TIME  IT  RIGHT — It’s best to eat before sunset. Seems far fetched ? Read the logic to believe it. If you eat early, the food will be digested before you sleep. This means that the brain gets enough sugar, ensuring that you get a good night’s sleep. So, you will rise early with a fresh mind. If you eat early after a good exercise session, you are bound to have an early lunch, leading to a much quicker dinner. If you eat late, you tend to eat fast and the problems of indigestation and gas begin.So, if not before sunset, try eating at least 3 hours before you retire for the day.

AN ANIMAL’S INSTINCT — There are four animal instincts — desire for food, sex, and sleep and the fear of death. Desire of food is a tricky instinct. Initially,you think about food, then you develop a desire to have a specific food and when you don’t get it, you are angry and if you get it, you become greedy and eat it really fast. That’s the catch, this is very short-lived pleasure and we need to understand how to control our mind and the urge to devour.

LESS IS MORE — Deepak Chopra, the lifestyle guru, once fed a few well-to-do and poor people with a balanced diet. On conducting a test, it was learnt that those who were expected to be well fed were defifient in vitamin B12. Surprised ? well that was because if the body is starved, it makes the most of what it gets and that’s why the poor people fared better at this test.

• The thing always happens that you really believe in : and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
• Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here,even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society.
• The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said “This is mine.” and found people naive enough to believe him, that man was the true founder of civil society.
• See Him present in every experience and remember He is always with you, ready to assist whenever you turn your thoughts to him. And above all, remember he is not to be won by words, but by deeds.
• May today there be peace within. May you trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be. May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith. May you use those gifts that you have received, and pass on the love that has been given to you. May you be content knowing you are a child of God. 

• Trees are meant to be the earth’s endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.
• The mere sense of living is joy enough.
• What you are aware of you are in control of; What you are not aware of is in control of you.
• It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people.
• When the pupil is ready, the teacher will appear.
• Why give the ego more power by resisting and opposing it ?
• The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the strength within you that survives all the hurt.
• The game is not about becoming somebody.It’s about becoming nobody.
• There are no accidents… there is only some purpose that we haven’t yet understood.

Cleaning a floor can be a tremondously creative act. Creativity has nothing to do with any particular work. Creativity has something to do with the quality of your consciousness. Whatever you do can become creative if you know what creativity means.

Creativity means enjoying any work as meditation; doing any work with deep love. Are you thinking that if you paint, you will feel creative? But painting is just as ordinary as cleaning the floor. You will be throwing colours on a canvas. Here you go on washing and cleaning the floor. What is the difference? Talking to somebody, you feel the time is being wasted. You would like to write a great book; then you will be creative. But a friend has come:a little gossiping is perfectly beautiful. Be creative.

All the great scriptures are nothing but conversations of people who were creative. What do i go on doing here? Conversing. They will become gospels some day, but originally they are conversations.But I enjoy doing them. If you really love something,it is creative.

A man of understanding is continuously creative.Not that he is trying to be creative.The way he sits is a creative act.Watch him sitting.You will find in his movement a certain quality of dance,a certain dignity. Life consists of small things; just your ego goes on saying these are small things. You would like to do some great thing — great poetry. You would like to become Shakespeare, Kalidas or Milton. It is your ego that is creating the trouble.

Drop the ego and everything is creative. Then everything is tremendously great. If you don’t love, then your ego goes on saying, ” This is not worthy of you.” cleaning is great. Don’t go on an ego trip. Whenever the ego comes and persuades you towards some great things,immediately become aware and drop the ego,and then by and by you will find trivia sacred. Nothing is profane: everything is sacred and holy.

And unless everything becomes holy to you,your life cannot be religious. A holy man is not what you call a saint. A saint may be just on an ego trip.And also he will look a saint to you because you think he has done great deeds. A holy man is an ordinary man who loves ordinary life,chopping wood,carrying water from the well,cooking — Whatever he touches becomes holy. Not that he is doing great things, but whatever he does, he does it greatly.

The greatness is not in the thing done. The greatness is in the consciousness that you bring while you do it. Each moment of your life has to be transformed by your meditative love. When I say be creative, I don’t mean that you should all go and become great painters and poets. I simply mean let your life be a painting, let your life be poetery.

Never allow yourself this tendency for being great, famous, someone bigger than life size — never. Life-size is perfect. To be exactly life-size, to be just ordinary, is as perfect as it should be. But live that ordinariness in an extraordinary way. That is what nirvanic consciousness is all about.

How many gadgets modern technology has blessed us with ! yes, they only seem to add to the stress and tension of our lives. we have seen young men and women walk down parks and green lanes with earphones completely sutting out the world of beauty around them.

Keep it simple ! That is the mantra which can help you reduce stress and tension.Possesions and acquisations may seem marvellous.But after a whilw, you do not own them, they own you.

A Tao story tells us of an artist who was so gifted that his fame spread all over. One day,he painted the picture of a snake.It was so life like that viewers seemed to hear it hiss ! The artist was so carried away by his own success and the adulation of his fans that he touched up the snake.He made its eyes glow;he outlined the fangs so that they seemed to dart at you ! He could not stop; he went on and painted feet on the snake !

The ex-pression,”painting feet on a snake”,a chinese saying,refers to situations that are needlessely made more complicated by people who do not know when and where to stop.

When our life becomes complicated with power and possessions,we move farther and farther away from the simple joys and pleasures of life.We fail to notice the green grass and the fresh morning flowers.We don’t have time to hear birds singing or watch our little ones smiling.We drift away from the state of childlike innocence and simple joy,which is our basic nature.

Simplicity is not self denial.It is a return to those values that matter most in life.It emphasises spontaneity and intution.It helps us to rediscover the feeling of wonder and joy that we have lost as adults.

A group of young men and women were walking across a shopping mall.They were happy and relaxed;they were talking and laughing merrily.Not a care in the world did they seem to have.There was a young girl among them,who happened to glance at the window of a jewellery store which they passed.On display was a beautiful, brilliant diamond bracelet.How it sparkled and shone ! The girl’s eyes opened wide.She went close to the window to inspect the price.She could not afford it.

She caught up with her friends but she was not the happy,laughing,bubbly girl that she had been five minutes earlier.Her cheerful,buoyant attitude had been replaced by a mood of glum disappointment.

This is the worst part about wanting things.Getting them may give you momentary happiness.But not being able to get them often makes you miserable ! 

Charity has the distinction of benefiting the receiver as well as the donor.

Victor Hugo in his novel ‘ Les Miserables’ highlights the benefaction that charity brings to the receiver. A convict had escaped from prison and sought shelter for the night.The priest obliged, gave him supper and a bed to sleep. In the middle of the night he decamped with the silver plates of the house. The next morning the police who had caught him brought him in. The priest feigned surprise and asked the policeman : ” why did you harass him ? I gifted the plates to him last night.” The policeman apologised and left. The convict was astounded.To crown it all, the priest picked up two solid silver candle stick stands from his desk and gave them to the convict with these words : “Remember,life is to give,not to take.The convict took them and departed.Thence,he was transformed.Living a life of service and sacrifice.Such would be the outcome of true charity.

Likewise,the donor is blessed with the effect of charity.Charity is a synonym for prosperity.So is sacrifice for success.Swamy Rama Tirtha proclaims : The way to gain anything is to lose it.The more you run after wealth,the more it recedes.You crave for it, and it eludes you.Leave it alone, and it follows you. Work earnestly,dispassionately ; the reward of work shall court you.

The phenomenon of colours illustrates this law of life.Light is constituted of seven colours.When an object is bathed in light the seven colours impinge upon it.An object appears blue when it actually gives away blue and takes in the other six.It appears in the colour it parts with.An object gains colour it gives away ! You gain what you give away.What you sacrifice.Not what you take.Develop the spirit of dispassion,renunciation in life.You turn pure,divine.And when you amass wealth you turn impure,demonic.Oliver Goldsmith wrote : Where wealth accumalates,men decay.

Social service is indeed a noble trait.But these scattered units can in no way solve the problem of poverty and misery in the world.Hence the world needs not just bouts of social service but education and dissemnination of social conciousness among people.That one should empathise,share and live in harmony with fellow beings.The idea of social consciousness needs to be introduced at the level of primary schools for children to grow with that concept.And gradually inculcated in families at home. ‘ With the dawn of social conciousness the mist of social service disappears.Every individual becomes a social worker.

Just imagine a country devoid of literacy barring a group of literates.The residual literates have to choose one of two options : Each of them starts teaching people ‘individually’. Or start schools for teachers’ training.And these teachers in turn produce more teachers.

The former method can provide only a limited satisfaction for educating a few pockets in the country,while the latter can gradually cover the entire country and solve the problem of illiteracy.

Similarly, Social workers and their social work can only create pockets of relief while the perennial problem of poverty and misery persists.The problem can be solved only through mass education and dissemination of social conciousness. Vedanta,the ancient philosophy of India,educates and inculcates this spirit of social consciousness in human beings.

# There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

# If you don’t find God in the next person you meet, it’s a waste of time looking for him further.

# There is only one religion, though there are hundred versions of it.

# The candles are many,but the light is one.

# The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

# You can put truth in a grave, but it won’t stay there.

# When in doubt, do it.

# Change direction, or you may end up where you’re heading.