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PRANAHUTI – ITS RELEVANCE IN SADHANA
This leads us further to the several problems that arise in sadhana. Body might have certain problems, but that is only elementary. Food and sex are the two things that govern the body, whether you like it or not. The body has to continue. It has to procreate. This is a must, irrespective of whatever is the stage of the person, animal, or human or even divine. A person who is condemned to thinking only about these two will definitely encourage more number of doctors to be prepared in this world, because he is concerned about the body. I can understand that in early stages of life when there was no body to protect this human baby, it had to be protected. All other animals are capable of taking care of themselves. We are the only beings who are helpless for quite a long time. Human beings are the only ones helpless for a long time and who required some protection. Some doctors are required, we can understand at early stages of our life. We require to take care of the body and also have need for doctors and medicine to maintain healthy physical body. I am amused many times of people talking to me to taking to yoga exercises in their 65’s and 70’s to remain healthy. So it reminded me always of the old proverb, not a very good proverb, an old proverb in Telugu which says
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