Eat Right & Sleep Good

What type of food we should eat so that our life reaches its full potential for daily performance?

So what kind of food? We must understand this

food is not a religion, food is not a culture, food is just the fuel for this machine. There may be cultural aspects to the tastes. There may be even religious tinge to the food over a period of time but essentially food is fuel for this body. So with what kind of food will it function with a minimum struggle within itself and maximum impact?

So suppose you buy a petrol car and pump diesel into it,

it may still roll around but not at its optimum. Similarly, various foods you can eat and still somehow it functions.

But those communities which have eaten with care,

we can clearly see a distinct difference in the way they function, the levels of intelligence, and whatever. we prescribed food for different people in different ways. If you are doing menial jobs, you eat one way because you need physical muscle. If you are doing other kinds of trading and other kinds of activities, you eat another way. If you are a fighting class, you eat differently. And now if you are into education, spiritual process, and subtler aspects of life, then you eat differently. If you are in education, one of the greatest challenges is to stay

You need a very balanced kind of energy because you have to focus on something

which doesn’t naturally interest you. It’s not something that with which your chemistry is gelling.

If your chemistry is gelling, you are always focused on that one, isn’t it? For this, you need a balance and a steady mind. For this, you need to eat in a certain way. To put it very simply, food goes through your body through the alimentary canal. going through various stages of the digestive process. Many of you are biology people, right? It goes through the alimentary canal. Now it begins with the lip. Here, if you look at, all the herbivores and carnivores

if you look at the animal kingdom, there are herbivores and carnivores are two main segments of animals in the world. One eats vegetable matter, another eats meat. If you look at the alimentary canal, the way it is built, between herbivores and carnivores there’s a distinct difference. in the human being suggests that you are naturally a herbivore, So you are supposed to chew your food.

Why you are supposed to chew your food is you have enzymes in your saliva, where if you take a little bit of raw rice and put it in your mouth just for a minute, you will see it turns sweet right here

because right here carbohydrate is being converted into sugar, right here. So if you eat properly,

then we say about thirty to fifty percent of your digestion should happen in your mouth.

So this part of the digestive system is expecting half-digested food or partially digested food,

but right now the way we’re eating is mostly we are putting not only undigested food but partially destroyed food. So the amount of food that you need to get the same amount of energy has increased.

You are eating much more food than what you should eat to generate that much of energy.

Because of that, there is inertia in the body because it has to process so much more food than it should, there is inertia. Once there is inertia, your sleep quota increases. How many hours do you sleep? Eight hours?

But if you eat right and do certain things with your body, you see very effortlessly within three to four weeks, you can drop your sleep quantity anywhere between two to three hours. One-and-a-half to three hours very easily you can drop if you just eat consciously and just learn to sit properly.

Just the posture. Your geometry of the body and what goes into the system, if you just manage these two things, you will see sleep requirement will just come down like that.

A vegetable can be a fruit, it can be a nut, it can be sprouted gram. At least forty to fifty percent,

of the food that you eat must be alive. You eat dead food and you want to live this is a little difficult thing to do because you have to raise the dead now. But if you eat live food, one thing you will see is the state of your mind, your focus, and your sleep quotas, and above all staying awake is not good enough,

you have to stay alert, isn’t it? How alert you are, how focused you are, only to that extent everything yields to you in this world, isn’t it so? What is level of focus will determine whether the world yields to you or not, isn’t it? And one more aspect of life, one more aspect of food is when you consume something, it must of a simple genetic code, in the sense, it must be a very simple software. Vegetables, fruits, nuts, sprouts - they are very simple. More complicated means animal food becomes more and more complicated. Suppose you eat an animal, which has some amount of emotion and a life of its own.

So if you eat an animal, particularly a mammal if you eat, it has a similar kind of complexity maybe not as complex as this similar level of complexity because it has thought and emotion of its own.

If you eat a leaf, a vegetable, a fruit, a nut, or a sprout - this is much simpler. If you must eat non-vegetarian food, you must eat that which is further away from you. So generally fish and water life further away from you. So, if you must eat non-vegetarian food, the best thing to eat I you have a, you are on the coast. Fish is the best thing to eat that way.