Discourses-----Day 9
October 20, 1939
It was night and Sri Sri Thakur sat on a chowki placed on
the embankment facing eastward. Jatinda, Kestoda of Chandan Nagar, Amar-bhai
and others were present.
Sri
Sri Thakur : “Each of the
Aryan customs is the result of extensive experiment. What a very scientific
race these people have been ! The more I think about it, the lower my head goes
out of regard for them. Each of their recommendations for living has a hygienic
effect. One should not eat food offered by person who’s personal and family
characteristics are not known. For the sake of healthy body it is essential to
be particular about this. Nobody knows what type of disease a man can have. A
man may be immune himself but another person may be affected by taking food
from him. One should not take food offered even by a Bipro who is lacking in a
good way of living. One must not use somebody else’s bed. Nor is it proper to
share a bed with someone else. One should not put on somebody else’s clothes. I
have known of cases where people have got gonorrhea by putting on the clothes
of a gonorrhea patient. The other day people took food in a group’s along with
the sweepers, but is there any account of how many diseases they have carried
away with them ? Unity gets impaired even between two brothers brought up
together from childhood. Things would have been very simple indeed if unity was
to be established by dining together on one or two occasions ! Eating cowdung
helps to revive the mental and physical state. Cowdung is used in the swabbing
of floors. We may look on it as nonsense, but there are very few things that
have such bacteria-phage qualities as cowdung. There is an element in cowdung
that kills bacteria. Just think too of the beneficial effect of sacrificial
fire. Clarified butter is burned in the fire ; the atmosphere gets ionized by
this. This is extremely beneficial to health. When inhaled, it increases
longevity. A sacrificial fire used to be lighted everyday in an Aryan home.
What a holy atmosphere would play around the house ! What a healthy thing too
was the custom of hypergamy !”
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