I am totally against refined sugar
Because when I read this research that just one tea spoon of sugar
can bring down your immune system by 50% for next 2 ½ -3 hours, I said bye to it
And I tell people to say bye to refined sugar
Instead I would tell them to take coconut sugar or jaggery, honey
I don’t see it is too far away when we might see in the world white sugar factories will
be shut down
We need to move in that direction
May not be right away but you know the refined sugar and you know this is not
this is not a reasonable thing to continue something when we find that it is harmful
Jaggery has zinc and it has iron, phosphorous, it has calcium
Deep sleep , nothing happens, that is why it is sleep
And it is the most needed state for you
If you ask me physiologically, yes your metabolism goes high
Lot of activities happening in the body
You grow only in the sleep
If you don’t sleep, you don’t grow
In sleep you heal
Healing happens in sleep
In sleep you get rejuvenated
All this happens at one hand and other hand, nothing happens
In the 70s and 80s, hardly there would be any vegetarian stuff anywhere
But today that is not the case
Everywhere people are taking to vegetarianism because they found it much much more useful
to the body
And the make up of our body is such that it is more suitable for vegetarian
You know people argue what do we do eating greens and vegetables, we need protein, body
builders, I have to eat meat and all that
just tell them horses, elephants and bulls they are all vegetarians
And they can give this message to people, look, we are all vegetarian and we are much
stronger than you
So I would say if you sit for meditation, every hour or two, you must get up and move
That is why, here we have a whole set of,
though we do take people through meditation, silence programmes, retreats
make them go deep in meditation
their meditations are deeper when they add some asanas, yogasanas, exercises
See when you meditate for 20-30 minutes, what happens?
Toxins are released in your body
Now if you don’t move your body, don’t help the circulation to go
And if you don’t do some breathing exercises to get that carbon dioxide out of your system,
you know you get rusted inside
And then you know, you are prone to joint pains or any sort of illnesses
Though your mind may get calmer, it will take longer time to get calmer
You need to sit for a long time to become calm
If you add a little bit of pranayama, meditation, I would usually recommend anybody 40 minutes
In this 40 minutes, I would say 10 minutes of exercise, 5 minutes of breathing exercise,
20 minutes of meditation and end that again with 5 minutes of breathing exercise
So that in meditation whatever is your body is reorienting itself or readjusting and letting
go off the stress and toxins, it has an outlet through breathing
This is an issue
Radiation will increase many times more and it is affecting the health
Use it less and less
Switch off your phones at home
Keep a cut-off time 8-9-10 O’ clock
After that you are not going to release the red button till the next morning
This is one thing
Second is boost your immune system
If your immune system is strong, you have more powerful energy with you
And the radiation does not affect and you form a shield around you
Some people have this thing in-built in them that their body can adjust to any type of
water, any type of weather, any type of conditions
See people who are living in the slums, their immune system is so much stronger than those
who are living in bunglows
For you, you drink water which is not filtered, then 4 days you will be in bed
But those people you see
Nothing shakes them
They are so strong
So our body can adjust to different climates, temperatures, conditions
It is very elastic, I tell you
Even for you, shut off your A/C and try to be in a room without air condition,
One or two days you may feel uncomfortable
May be a week
But if your will is there, you too can make your body stronger
You know science said butter is bad for you, the whole generation believed butter is not
good for you
And then in 2015, Time magazine cover said, butter is good for your heart
Today cholesterol has been deleted from the list of medical advises for heart patients
Statin was given to people
We don’t know how many
Now the science says, it is wrong
Many tooth pastes has SLVs and there are chemical substances which are put in those toothpastes
They said this is good for your teeth
Today they say, it is harmful, it is carcinogenic
See when we study medicine, from the allopathic angle or western angle
we forget one basic thing, that is consciousness
our body has grown, is sustained, and lives by a principle called consciousness
through consciousness, by consciousness
And you leave out consciousness and treat every illness, just the outside, the symptoms
of illness
not even the illness
then your system is very incomplete
you must take into consideration, consciousness
and Ayurvedic system of medicine does this
A weak body can be carried by a strong mind
But a weak mind cannot carry on a strong body
These are all recognized today but the World Health Organisation
This component of spiritual health is there
which has been there in Ayurvedic texts from thousands of years, from millenniums
Ayurveda has always said ‘Swastha’
Swastha means, ‘swa’ means self
Swastha is established in self
Establishing in self is the real health, means complete health
It is said - like food, like mind
It is always said that Anna data sukhee bhava
Those who give the food, if their mind or mood is good,
that mood gets transferred to people who are consuming the food
So it is very important, if a chef is angry, upset or sad, and he is preparing the food
and give,
I dont think people who are consuming that food go with a very joyful happy mood
Everyone before eating should wish happiness for the chefs
This has been our tradition
We said Anna data sukhee bhava
Let the giver of the food be happy
And who are the giver of food
First is farmer, second is the merchant who without adulteration
reaches it to you, third is the chef who prepares the food and reaches
to your taste buds and to your tummy
So all these three people should be happy
This must be the prayer that everyone should do
If your environment is polluted and air is not good, water is not good
if your food is all grown with so much chemicals, you cannot maintain a healthy body
It is the basic thing that you need to care for
You need to have trees
Even if you are living in an apartment, in a very big city like Mumbai,
you should keep some plants inside the home
Some money plant, you now there are different…..what is that? Mother-in-laws tongue
And plants like these cleanses the air
You know I would use the example of a cell phone
The cell phone needs charging
You need to charge your cell phone
When the charge goes off, you dial the number and you keep saying hello, hello, nothing
will happen
Because battery has died off, charge has gone
Breathing is like charging the battery of the cell phone
You know, 90% of the impurities in our system goes off through the breath
But we use only 30% of our lung capacity
Breath is linked to different emotions
When we are happy we breathe differently, when we are stressed, we breathe differently
When we have anxiety, the pattern of our breath is different
By manipulating the breathing, you can change the emotions
And if you can change the emotions, it affects the endocrine system