GramGeeta chapter 14 Gram Arogya ( health & hygiene of the village )
Chapter- 14
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HEALTH AND HYGIENE OF THE VILLAGE.
(Graam Arogya) || Salutations to Shrigurudeva || |
| REASONS FOR DISEASES & EPIDEMICS AND IGNORANCE OF PEOPLE |
Ek shrota Mahabhaavik | Mhane gaavahi kele theek |
One great devotional listener said, "We have turned our village into the best one. But unfortunately the Great God has picketed in it and we are unable to remove it." ||1|| |
Pratyakhsha shahar jaree zaale | Tari devaapudhe Taab na chaale |
"May it be a great city. If the great God does not have his good will for it, it can't do better. Then what can any small village do (against God's will) though it has been made as happy and comfortable as the city?" ||2|| |
Devi-devataancha kop zaala | cholera patakicha zataka aala |
"Violent rage of Gods and Goddeses has befallen upon our village and so it has been badly hit by the epidemic of cholera and terrible diarrhoea. Then evenif the great father of physician comes to prevent the epidemic, he too can't cure anybody who has fallen prey to the diseases" ||3|| |
Mhanoni Dewata raahatee prasanna | aise karaave poojana |
"Therefore we have to arrange for a great ceremonial service and worship of those Gods and Goddesses to please and pacify them. Unless such religious worship and offerings to God is enected no city nor any village can live happily and healthily." ||4|| |
Mitra! aik yaache uttara | Deva-devata kimwa parameshwar |
(upon this, Vandaniya Maharaj says)," My Friend! Here is the reply to your problem. Listen carefully. God, Goddesses or the supreme Excellent spirit are the incarnation of grace and blessing of welfare (for the human beings). They never have such violent anger for anybody. (They never become angry with anybody. ||5|| |
Kop karitee te dushtaavari | Tyaatahi uddhaar bhaavachi antaree |
"Gods do have rage upon the evil and wicked persons. But even this violent anger for such sinful evil persons underlies with a kind and merciful favour for upliftment & redemption of those persons. If God (father of the world) goes harassing and torturing the innocent people, he can't be called and worshipped as God."||6|| |
Sarva lok lekare tyaachi | chhalana ka kareel konaachi?|
All human beings are the children of God. How then will He harass and torment his beloved children? It is our own behaviour and enactments which create such troubles and agonies. We ourselves are the real enemies of us.(We are ourselves the root cause of all our sufferings.)||7|| |
Chahubaajunni keli ghaan | Tyaat jantu zaale nirmaan |
When we allow our surroundings to be full of dirt and rotten filth, germs of diseases and viruses, all kinds of diseases and disastrous epidemics start growing rapidly and widely. ||8|| |
Naahi nemaacha aachaar | shuddha naahi aahar-vihaar |
We don't follow the regularities and proper rules of good and healthy behaviour. We don't maintain our conduct and thoughts pious and pure. The climate and water around us are also dirty and filthy. All this polluted, inhygienic and impure surrounding and atmosphere becomes harmful to people and result in killing them. ||9|| |
Kaahi kemwha kuthehi khaane | kadhi zopane, kadhi jaagane |
Eating untimely, consuming any kind of food items, sleeping at odd times and getting awakened late at night, all such irregularaties in normal daily routine contaminate and destroy the vital seven humor in our bodies. That makes people suffer from many diseases. ||10|| |
`Hoteli khaane, masana jaane' | aise bolatee shahane |
The wisemen used to say "Eating in hotels leads one to the cemetery". This is true. Moreover, becoming habitual to the chilling addictions means to invite the dreadful fireghost to possess our bodies. ||11|| |
Kashaas kaahi niyam nurala | kon rogee kothe thunkala |
In this way no rule of good behaviour has been existing now. Any patient (suffering from any contagious disease) goes on spitting anywhere. He eats anywhere in public places. He lives in close contact of all. (The other healthy person gets the virus inflection of his disease). So this has created the entire commotion in the problem of epidemics. ||12|| |
Tyaane rog prachaar zaala | Laagat rog waadhatachi gela|
This uncontrolled and careless virus infection of the highly contagious diseases spreads the epidemic rapidly. It expands its field and victimizes thousands of people. ||13|| |
Maga koni mhane kopalee devi | koni mantrikaasi bolaavi |
Then some people say that some goddess is violently enraged. They invite some witch doctor. Some think that the patient has been possessed by some spirit. Some doubt that some family person has played a wicked act upon the patient. Then the frightened villagers enlighten weavering tiny lamps at the dark nights. ||14|| |
Konee karani koutaal mhanati | koni pishachchyaas bharati |
Then there are some other individuals who speak of some evil and wicked spell. Some call it bewitching enactments. Some try to over power the evil spirit which has possessed the patient by employing mantras and some hideous rites upon him. Thus, without providing proper medicines and treatment on the disease, they kill the patient through such most foolish enactments. ||15|| |
Bhagat, Maantrik, arabadi, janate | Ghumaare baghatee bhawik konate |
There are some so called devil dealing bhagats, the witch sorcerer maintrikas who pretend to make the evil spirits or ghosts to resound. Such Mantrikas and Tantrikas are always in search of innocent devotees who can easily fall prey to their crafty ways. They spread the scaring faiths in the simple minded villagers. They all are belly-gods who earn their livelihood by doing such dirty enactments. ||16|| |
Karaviti nawas-saayas thor | Devapoojecha jorsor |
The harassed ignorant villagers also become ready to exert ardent efforts and start praying and vowing for the early recovery of their patients. They arrange the worship with sacred precept in a violent vigour and devotion for the particular Goddess. Then they sacrifice male buffelo, goats or cocks very cruelly before that Goddess. ||17|| |
Dewaanechi kele jeeva | Tyaasi kaichi maaranyachi haava?
The great God has created all these living beings How can this kind creator find pleasure in accepting the sacrifices of his own creation? These are the middlemen and brokers who kill the poor mute animals and earn their living and get their pleasures fulfilled. ||18|| |
Sante devaas kele prasanna | Temwha balee dile kona ?
The great holy saints sought the favour and grace of God. What animals did they sacrifice to God? The saints like Chokhoba, Shri Chakradhar, Raamkrishna always used to proclaim that God is pleased only with the true, honest and heartfelt devotion of his devotees". ||19|| |
Devaasi paahije balidaan | To pashu, aapula bhram abhimaan |
In fact God never expects the sacrifice of any living being. He earnestly desires to have sacrifice of the wild beast in the form of false pride and ego which dwells in us. Unless this ignorance is not removed from the innocent minds of common people, the village can't live happily. ||20|| |
Gaava aso athawa shahar | Tetheel bighadale aachar, vichaar |
It may be a big city or a small village, when the behaviour, thoughts, habits and enjoyments of people get impaired and impure, they have to suffer the disastrous consequences of diseases and dreadful epidemics. ||21|| |
| THE DIRE NEED FOR IDEAL DAILY ROUTINE |
Gava whaaya nirogi sundar | sudhaarve laagel ekek ghar |
Every house in the villge needs to be reformed to make the town or village hygienic, healthy and beautiful. Before this, it is necessary to make each and every member of the family living in those houses to be ideal. ||22|| |
Vyakti whaya aadarsha samyak | paahije dinacharyaachi satwik |
To make every individual in each house an ideal and a right-person, his or her daily routine must be pious and pure. Then gradually the whole life of the village will be healthy and beautiful. ||23|| |
Niyamee baandhala ekek din | Tyaanech sudhare jeevan sampurna |
If in this regulated manner each and every day everybody behaves and maintains his life disciplined, not only his life will become happy but the entire village will also become healthy and happy. Then all Gods and Goddesses will also be pleased. ||24|| |
Niyamaacha mukhya aadhar | Majboot paahije nirdhaar |
The basic support for this rule is to have firm determination. Therefoere all hopes for achieving the prosperity in worldly and spiritual life entirely depend upon the firm determination. ||25|| |
Naahitari maanavaane niyam kele | sarva jeevan suralit chaale |
When a man laids down some good rule and follows it with determination, his life goes on easily & comfortably. But if he ignores his rule even for a day, then it gets broken every now and then and the man strays away from it . ||26|| |
Ekada raatrabhari jaagala | Mag sakaali uthanech kashala?
If he breaks the rule and spends the whole night in wakefulness, it becomes impossible for him to get up early in the morning. Moreover, his whole day is passed in idleness. ||27|| |
Tyaala dhaak nahi, kalajee naahi | Gharache lok bolalech naahi |
If he doesn't have any awe or fear for the elderly person in his family, if he doesn't have any care or deligence for his duties and if nobody in his house crosses him, this irregular behaviour gets repeated again and again. The next day also he gets up at ten o' clock in the morning. ||28|| |
Kaahi diwas alakhsha zaale | ushira uthane angwalani padale |
If the family members connive at his irregular sleeping and getting up habit, it becomes his habitual practice. Then any remedy, employed upon him, becomes fruitless to change his inured irregular habits. ||29|| |
Aise kaasaya ghadoo dyaave? Roj sakaaleech uthaave |
Why should then let it happen in the beginning? Everybody must get up early in the morning. If anybody fails to get up early the other members should wake him up without fail. ||30|| |
Kaahi mhanati ushira uthane | Hey to bhaagyawantaache lakhshane |
Some say that late rising is a sign of one's good fortune. They say as he is rich, how can he have any paucity.?" ||31|| |
Aise samjoni aalshi kela | Arey! haa bhaagyawaan kasala?
This misunderstanding or ignorance has turned him into an idler. How can a late riser be fortunate? If the late riser is supposed to be the fortunate, why can't the bedridden patient be considered as the most fortunate one? ||32|| |
To Tara nijalaachi raahato | zopoonachi khaato, pito ||
Such a bedridden patient is constantly lying on the bed. He even eats and drinks in his lying position. Can we call him the greatest fortunate person? ||33|| |
Bhaagywantaachi ulati vyaakhya | karane shobhate ka shahanyaa saarakhya? |
My friend! is it right and suitable for a wiseman to define a fortunate man like this? The person, who gets up early in the morning is really a fortunate one ||34|| |
Shramaatoonachi upaje bhaagya sampatti | Nijanaare tichi haani karitee |
(Getting up early in the morning) when one puts himself to some hard work and labour, a treasure of good fortune also arises for him. The sleeping idlers get deprived of this treasure of good fortune. Their late rising imposes more burden of work upon others and reduces their own cheerfulness in their duties and work. ||35|| |
Zopee gela gharacha dhanee | soorya chaalila dokyawaruni |
The sun is passing overhead yet the master(Head) of the family is lying in his bed and turning his sides in sound sleep under the warm sunlight. ||36|| |
Nokar-chaaker alasa kariti | Mhanatee gharadhanich zopatee |
(When the house head lies late in bed) His servants and workers also become idle. They think, "If the master himself is yet lying on bed, why should we go and start our work?"||37|| |
Aisa saara andhaar pade | Waajatee shwaananche choughade |
(When the Master of the family lies late on bed) all the houldhold work comes to a standstill (as if it is a night time). Dogs go on barking outside. The kids go on shouting and crying. The female members of the house also go on lying in the bed and rolling idly. ||38|| |
Gharadaar kothooni pawitra? Jaagalyaawarahi alasale gaatra |
In such conditions how can you expect the purity and secredness of the house? After getting up late in the morning our body feels inertia. All limbs become loose. The organs inside our body can't work in proper order and constipation gets developed. ||39|| |
Yaatoonachi waadhati sarva rog | Vaidya doctoraancha laagala bhog |
As the evacuation of the feaces is not in proper order, various diseases get developed. They invite the doctors and physicians and make us to take costly and painful treatments. In addition to this physical disorder, our all activities and duties get disturbed and it leads to misfortune and poverty to enter the life of the house. ||40|| |
Pratahkaalachi aarogyadaayee hawa | sada sarvada maanate jeeva |
The fresh and pure air and climate provide all the living beings good hygiene and great freshness. It is suitable and beneficial to all. The seasons also provide great pleasure with their pure and fresh climate. ||41|| |
Sarva raane vane jaagi hotee | pushpe saari vikaas pawatee |
All woods and forests get awakened at the early morning. Flowers open up and look fresh and cheerful. All animals and birds also get up early in the morning. ||42|| |
Pahate dohata gaya-mhaisa | Tyaat adhikachi saar-ansha |
If the cows and buffeloes are milked early in the morning, their milk contains more pith and essence. The redness of our blood, which bears power to resist against all diseases, also grows in the fresh and pure air of the early morning. ||43|| |
Mhanoni pratahkali uthave | Brahma muhurtaa dolyaannee baghaave |
Getting up early at down, have a good look of the auspicious moments of `BRAHMA MUHURTA'. Wake up early in the morning, be seated on the bed in silence and perform morning matins (such as befitting to the morning pleasant atmosphere, e.g.'UTHA GADYAA ARUNODAYA ZAALA'.) ||44|| |
Pratah-smaran mhanaje navin sphoorti | ugawatya diwashi whaya pragatee |
This morning matin to offer prayers to God is for seeking inspiration and cheerfulness to perform our daily activities and routine duties excellently and to seek progress and prosperity. ||45|| |
Tya weli jo samkalpa karato | waayeet na ghado aise chintato |
At the early down, one who makes volitions as `nothing evil' should be enacted by my hands' goes rapidly ahead and ahead on the path of his prosperity through this noble and pious initiation. ||46|| |
Mhanoni pratah-smaran karaave | Naisargik utsaah bhare bharaave |
Therefore regularly perform morning matins. Enjoy the plesure of fresh natural climate in the morning. Fill up your hearts with zeal and enthusiasm. After this, enact your morning routine activities (such as going for purification, washing mouth, having a bath etc.) The regular practice of such enactments is very precious for our good health. ||47|| |
Pahaates shouchya mukha marjan | Tyaane waayu doshaache hoya shaman |
In the early morning practicing regularly the activities like self purification we can subside the gastic troubles. The personal inside and outside purity and cleanliness of our body develops more and more and naturally we achieve a new cheerfulness and vigour with sound physical health. ||48|| |
Sakaali karaave ushappaan | Tyaane antarindriyaanche shaantawan |
Then drink some cold water in the morning. Such drinking of cold water is called `USHAPAANA'. It helps to reduce the unwanted excess heat and cools down the inner organs and parts of our body. Then have a cold water bath. This cold water bath makes our mind and soul calm,cheerful and pleasant. ||49|| |
sheet jala snaanache mahimaan thora | Tene twacha shaktee jaage sundara |
This cold water bath bears a great importance (in regard to sound health). It awakens the energy in the skin and brings freshness and ardance in our body. ||50|| |
Menducha bhaag thanda raahila | Tareech buddhicha utkarsha zaala |
A great many elders and venerable individuals speak of the cold water bath that it keeps the human brain and nerves system cool and peaceful. It develops the talent and intelligence. They themselves had experienced this great benefit of cold water bath. ||51|| |
ushna paanyaane snaan karane | mhanaje bimaarachi to samajane |
A person who takes hot water bath should be considered as a patient. The hot water bath is harmful to our physical health. Therefore always avoid to form the inheygienic habit of having hot water bath. ||52|| |
Snaanottar arunodayaapoorvi | saamudaayik dhyaan upaasana karaavi |
After having bath before the day-break, perform. collective common spiritual services like meditation, prayers, reiterating the name of God etc. Find out some temple or any secred place like a close verandah. ||53|| |
Arunodayaachi suwarnaprabha | Disey laavanyaachi shobha |
In the faint golden luster of the day-break you can watch the heavenly beauty of the nature. At that hour, the nature (being calm, quiet and still) grows serenity and divine talent. The yogees performing and practising yoga seek great gains which are hard to obtain. ||54|| |
Jan mhanatee; yogyaanni dhyaan karave | Aapan kaasaya uthave,smaraave?
Some people say, "It is befitting to the yogees to get up early in the morning before day-break for practising yoga and meditation etc. why should we imitate them, get up earlier and meditate? why should we remember God so at dawn?" But thinking and speaking like this of anybody is not at all fair and right. ||55|| |
Yogee aapali samadhi dhari | saadhak sanmaargacha yog karee |
(In the early morning) The yogee gets steady in his deep meditation. The spiritual seekers practice yoga (the functioning of mental and moral tendencies.) The common house holders can also seek the union of brilliance and prosperity of their life by performing practices of meditation and remembering God early in the morning. ||56|| |
Dhyaanaaparich sahal pratahkaalachi | jaroor karaavi sawaya rojachi |
Similarly, we should aways form a habit of early morning walk in addition to such practice of meditation etc. The oxygen in the pure and fresh atmosphere in the early morning, that we inhale, makes our body and cool secred and pure. ||57|| |
Koni dhawati, koni chaalati | koni aasane,soorya-namaskar ghaalti |
In the early morning a pleasant and beautiful sight of some body's running, someone's walking, practice of various physical exercises, positions and salutations to the sun by some individuals, some singing, some others meditating etc. should necessarily be seen at the day break. ||58|| |
Kaahi pathan-paathan karaave | shareer manaasi valan laawave |
In addition to these activities we should read some good classic scriptures (sadgrantha) and books. The regular habit of reading and memorising of such books can help in forming good tendencies. If we maintain such disciplined and regular routine, we can build up a beautiful and healthy life for us. ||59|| |
Ghari aso waa ashramee | prawaasi aso waa teertha dhaami |
You may be at home, in some ashram, on travel or at some holy place; you should regularly keep observing all these orders of practices and regulated daily routine at the right times.||60|| |
Ghara ashramaachi karaavi saphayee | swachchhata maargi thai thai |
Then the house or the ashram should be swept, and cleaned. The roads and paths in every part of the village should also be swept and cleaned. Even the sties and cow-pens of the cattle must also be made as clean and clear as the mirror. ||61|| |
Gadi maanasaanni sahayya dyaave | Pari pratyekaane kaam karaave |
You may have help from the maids and servants. But each and everyone must enact some activity or other. The female members of the family should also extend their co-operation in finishing all the necessary duties at the right times. ||62|| |
Konihi baghe arunodayee |sada sammarjan, rangoli rayee |
At the day-break, if somebody visits your house, he should find that some member of your family has cleaned and swept the house and the courtyard. Water mixed with cow dung is sprinkled all over the courtyard. Pretty designs of rangoli are adding to the beauty of the entrance. Curd is duly churned. No dirt, filth and waste material are lying any where inside and outside the house. All the morning routine duties and activities have been finished before the sunrise. ||63|| |
Aise jya jya gaavi zaale | samajaave Lakhshmiche mana mohile |
Always bear in your mind, villages, where the whole atmosphere has become as described above, the Goddess of Wealth Lakhshmi gets attracted. Good and sound health and hygiene rule over those villages and dwell permanently there. ||64|| |
Tethe udand aayushya waadhate | jethe pratahkaali swhachhata hote |
The villages, where regular cleaning and sweeping is done early in the morning and where nobody is seen lying idly in the bed, the people living there will surely enjoy a long and happy life. ||65|| |
Mhanoni aise niyam karaave | chukaliyaahi chukona dyaave |
When such regular practices of good habits and rules of daily routine are firmly observed and imbibed,you will enjoy good health and hygiene. Never get them broken so easily. If, by chance, you fail to observe them at some odd times, through your unawareness, right them by practicing again and again. ||66|| |
Aisa abhyaas jadalyaavari | Aarogya, bhaagya nande samsaari |
When such regular practice of good rules of behaviour and good habits is continueously repeated and inured, you will enjoy good health and hygiene in your household life. Good fortune necessity will dwell in your life. Then why would you feel the necessity of medicines? A new energetic and enthusiastic life will frolick cheerfully inside and outside with new divine brilliance in your house. ||67|| |
Poorvee pratahkaali, maadhyaanha | aani sayamkaali jaanaa |
In the past, it was made compulsory for all to practice SANDHYA PRARTHANA (chanting some auspicious suktaas and prayers from the vedas) thrice a day (i.e.early in the morning before day-break, at noon and in the evening.) This compulsion was made to create permanent and firm impressions of good, pure and religious rites. ||68|| |
Te sarva kaalachi uchit | Mhanoni pratardhyaan niyamita |
All these practices are rightly necessary in all ages. Therefore all should perform the morning meditation and prayers as well as the evening prayers and the religious services regularly. ||69|| |
Nidrechiya aadi, antee | Diwas raatrichya sandhiprati |
Before sleeping at night and after getting up in the morning; at the juncture of night and down and at the juncture of day and night; similarly at the time of having our repast, whatever volutions we decide, they get firmly rooted and strong by such pious and auspicious practices. ||70|| |
Jani bhojani Hari aalawine | Geeta paathaadi uchharane |
Repeating constantly the name of God in public or at the time of having our meals and intoning Geetapath (some chapters from the geeta) keep our mind always pure and full of secred and auspicious thoughts. They all are vital to make our life pure and secred. ||71|| |
Shrotayanni prashna kela | "bhojanee aalawaave bhagawantala |
Upon this, the listeners asked, "kindly tell us what gains shall we seek by remembering God at the time of having our meals?" ||72|| |
Bhojan mhanaje aahar ghene | Tethe kashaala devaache gane |
Further they said, "Having meals means to consume food. Why should God be remembered and why should one offer prayers? In spite of it,why should we not have some laughter and jokeful chattering just to create cheerfulness and pleasure at the dining times? ||73|| |
Aika yaachehi uttara | bhojan mhanaje pind samskaara |
Yes, now here is my reply to your questions. (Our body has been created with seven humors). Therefore whatever impressions we pour into our bodies, the being in us will become according to them. Dining is a `PINDA SAMSKARA' (obiation of the lump to the being in us). The `VAISHWANARA' (fire burning in our liver) i.e.'Jatharaagnee' is the secred yagna fire in our belly. Having meals means to obliate to this everburning fire. The great wisemen used to call the repast as the secred yagna (it is not simply stuffing our belly with food) ||74|| |
Bhojanaache veli prasanna | keliya vichaar shubha chintana |
Therefore before starting to have our repast, if we express some good and pure thoughts, some good and auspicious wishes; pure and pious virtues enter into our body alongwith the lumps of food that we eat. That food shapes pure and clean mind. ||75|| |
Pavitra dhoop, sugandha saatwika | Tene waatawaran rognaashak |
At the time of having meals, Incense, myrrh and a pestal of sweet and pleasant smell should be burnt. They make the whole, surrounding pious and secred. Their smell and smoke destroy diseases. Our dining place should be clean. To add to our pleasure of repast, the rangoli designs should be drawn around plates and seats. ||76|| |
Swachchhate veena je bhojana | samajaave to malinapana |
Dining without observing proper cleanliness is a dirly and impure enactment. (& dining at such dirty places and with uncleanliness makes our minds and thoughts become unclean.) Before dining, first get your hands and feet cleaned and washed with pure water. It helps to inflame our digesting fire in belly more intensely. ||77|| |
Kaahi karaave bhojana poorvi kaam | Jene miley sakalasi aaram |
If there is some important work to be done, all should share it and complete it before seating for repast. Such co-operation by all members of the fmily makes it easy to finish the work without putting some extra burden upon a few members. ||78|| |
Koni aasane,paat takave | koni waadhave, paani thewaave |
Some of the members will arrange the seating for dinner. Some body will put plates and wooden seat planks. Another will fill in the glasses of water. Some other will kindle pestals and incense for sweat pleasant smell at the time of dining. ||79|| |
Prtham basoni paath mhanaava | Gambheer sure ranga bharaava |
Then all should get seated for dinner. Before commensing dining, all should intone the extract from the Geeta. (chapter 12 and 15 ) with proper silence and seriousness. When all the food items are served, all should chant `SHAANTI MANTRA'(Sahana wawatoo,Sahanow bhunaktoo, sahaveeryam karawaawahai) in sweet and steady tune. ||80|| |
Maga karaave Brahmaarpana | Aadaraane karaave annasevana |
All should offer then food to Brahma and start the repast. You should give full and right respect to the food. While eating, somebody should chant some shlok (a stanza of a secred verse) in sweet voice. Such singing of good verses at frequent intervals by one after another creates pleasure and cheerfulness in our repast. ||81|| |
Bhojanaapoorvi aachaman | Tyaacha uddesh agnideepana |
Before starting repast, perform `Aachamana' (sipping little water three times.) Its purpose is to inflame the secred fire in our belly (jatharaagni or vaishwaanara). Then circumcircle the plate with little water. put smaller bits of food to the right hand near the plate. (It is called chitraahutee). This circumcircle of water shows your offering food to God. ||82|| |
Eshware upajawile anna | Te anna Eeshwaree krupaadaan |
The great God has created the food. So it is the divine blessed gift of God to us. We live upon it. So we should be grateful to God as we owe to him. We live upon the favour of God. Hence we must remember him. ||83|| |
Tyaachi lekare jeevajana | Tyaanna aadhi laabhave anna |
All human and living beings are the dear children of Great God. So they all first should have their share of food. By this, we satisfy the universal excellent Divine spirit which has manifested himself in the form of this vast universe. So, with this intention, dining is considered as the secred and auspicious sacrifice. ||84|| |
Bhojan mhanaje bhoomaatecha prasaad | samajoni sukhe ghyaava aaswaad |
Dining is the secred and divine favour of this mother Earth. Considering food in such a way, enjoy your repast happily and with pleasure. Whatever food is prepared, treat it as sweets. While repasting, remember the farmers also, because what we eat, it contains his hard labour round the year. Also bear in mind, when you have food, that it is to make enable to extend your services to the world. ||85|| |
Aishya sadbhaave aadare sevaave | Uttam shlok bhojanee gaave |
Have your repast with such good and pure feelings. Sing some good verses or stanzas (shloka) during the repast. Never utter dirty and inauspicious words at the time of eating, Never get enraged or disturbed at the eating. ||86|| |
Haasya vinod jaree asala | Taree ashleelata na yaavi prasangaala |
You may enjoy some humourous chatterings and laughters at the repast. But it should not bear any vulgarity or obscene dirty sense. Never leave behind even a particle of the food in your plate. ||87|| |
Raajaa, Taamas, saatwik | Bhojanaache prakaar aneka |
There are many kinds of the repast, such as `Rajas' (i.e.piquent, enriched with spices and items of many tastes),'Taamas' (ie. animal flesh, very pungent, languid and rough food)etc. Choose only such food items in moderate scale which will be agreeable to your physical conditions and easily suitable for digestion ||88|| |
Koni sajjan mhanatee bhale | puchanaasi sarvachi khaadya nirmile |
Some good gentlemen say that all food products are created to digest suitably. But one must have a good discritionary consideration about choosing the food stuff that is suitable and agreeable to his physical needs and conditions. ||89|| |
Koni khaadya rog karee | konee khaaddya bhog karee |
Because, some food stuff produces different diseases. Some makes the diner to suffer some disorders. Some produce very bad impressions on mind and thoughts. ||90|| |
Kaahi jeeva chunkhadihee khaatee | Kahi maas kide bhakhshitee |
some beings consume nodules of lime stone and digest it. Some living beings consume flesh and insects. But they all bear their tendencies in consistance to the kind of food they consume. ||91|| |
Maanawaane kaaya khaave | Mhanaje maanavapanechi shobhave |
The good wise man has to think of what he should consume so as to be consistent to the human being and befitting to the qualities of human (more excellent and nobler than those of other living beings.) ||92|| |
Shuddha saatwik anna ghetale | Tyaane saatwik vichaar prawartale |
If you consume the pure and pious simple (saatwika) food, your thoughts will be pure and saatwika. If you consume rajas and Taamas food naturally the thoughts will also be rajas and tamas which will lead you to enact in the rajas and tamas way. ||93|| |
Madya maasaahar kariti koni | Vikaar buddhi waadhe manamaani |
Those who consume flesh and wines, they get very passionate temperament and intellect. Then they enact as they wish and to their pleasure. Also many different contagious diseases can grow and develop in them. ||94|| |
Hey to nischitachi aahe | khaadye ras rakta utpanna hoya |
It is a fact (accepted by sciences) that the same type of fluids and blood will form in your body from the kind of food you consume. Further, from the blood (produced by the consumed food stuff) flesh, fat, marrow and the seman are produced. All these will be of the same kind of food stuff which you have consumed. ||95|| |
Jaise jyaache rakta,rasa,guna | Taise vichaar hotee sphurana |
The individual will bear the same kind of thoughts as the qualities possessed by his blood, fluids and traits (which the kind of food has produced.) So we find different qualities and traits in different persons such as cruelty, braveness, dullness, intelligence, talent etc. These qualities are the result of the mingled blood and fluids. ||96|| |
Kaahi aanuwanshik guna yetee | rakta retaachiya mishrasthiti |
In addition to the impressions produced by the blood & fluids, there are some other factors too, which have deep impressions on qualities & traits of a person. They possess some qualities by heredity because man comes into being due to the union of veerya (seman) and blood (rakta) of his parents. some other qualities are produced through the impressions of the food and drinks he consumes. ||97|| |
Kaahi sangateene walan laage | bhoomi patre kaahi parinaam jage |
Then there are some more factors which are the cause of some qualities. Due to the company the man keeps, some qualities are developed. Some are acquired by the man due to the dwelling place, land, water which the man can have. Some qualities are produed through the man's efforts which grow threads of deep impressions around him. Thus the being in man possesses a particular temperament or nature which is formed through the mixture of the deep impacts of all above factors. ||98|| |
He sarva jaree khare asale | Taree mukhya anga khaadya-peyachi zaale |
Though all these factors are really responsible in shaping the nature of the human being, the main factors are the food and the drinks which he consumes. It is so because the food and drinks produce blood, flesh etc. in the human body; or decrease these elements. ||99|| |
uttam raktaache asaave shareer | Tari annahi uttamach khaave sundar |
So if the person wants to have a sound excellent body, he must consume excellent and pithful food. If he consumes course and vapid food, naturally it will have bad and licentious impact upon his brain and senses. ||100|| |
Mag vishay-waasana naaware | laagale bahirangaache waare |
Then it becomes impossible to hold and check the force of inclination towards the strong desires for enjoyment of worldly and sensual pleasures. You will be possessed by the strong stormy winds of outwordly and sexual desires. Such a man becomes uncontrollable and unrestrainable in his sinful and evil enactments. Human beings will start fighting like wild beasts among themselves. ||101|| |
jyaasi kroor karmachi karane aahe | Tyaane techi khaave nissanshaya |
If anybody wants to enact cruel and evil activities, he then can freely consume the food stuff of that kind. But then he should prepare himself to suffer the evil consequences of the food and of his evil enactments. ||102|| |
Jyaasi manushyapan laabhaave | aise waate jeeve bhaave |
But if the person really wants to acquire a true and noble virtueous humanity, he then should rigidly stick up to consuming simple, pious and saatwika food stuff. ||103|| |
Ekaane aisa prashna kela | saatwik anna kuthale gareebaala?
Then one of the listeners came forward with a question, "Sir, how can a poor common layman have such satwika food? And if he is unable to get it, what should he then consume to keep alive?" ||104|| |
Mitraho! saatwik annachi sahaj milate | Je shramaane sheteet pikate |
(Vandaniya Maharaaj replies) "Friends! only Satweek food is very easily available. It is produced in the fields through the hard labours of cultivation. Vegetables, cake of jwaar, chapati of wheat, cooked rice and so on, such satwik agricultural produces are very easily and with very little efforts available. ||105|| |
Soorya kirananni tayaar zaali | kanda, bhaajya phale baaget pikalee |
Fragment of pulses and beans, bulbous roots, esculent roots, vegetables, fruits grow on the sunrays in the farms. They are pithful and very much suitable for good health. They maintain good hygienic human bodies. ||106|| |
Sadhe, sahaj, taaje, paawana | Techi ase saatwik anna |
Simple, easily available, fresh and pure food is the saatwik food. Savoury, processed with various spices and crisp and delicate dainty food items produce various disordrs and distortions. They are not at all satwika. ||107|| |
Kalana kondahi satwika | jyaa satwe tagatee gareeb loka |
Fragments of pulses and beans on which poor people live are really pithful saatwik food. Satwik food means the food which provides good and hygienic nourishment, which is nutritious and which produces good impacts in and out of the human body. ||108|| |
Talale,vitale khawoo naye | ambat kharat sewoo naye |
Nobody should consume more fried and freshlessness food. Similarly, your food should not be much sour, salty or extremely sweet. ||109|| |
Mishtaanna nehami sewoo naye | Talana, masaale khawoo naye |
All should avoid consuming savoury, delicate dainty sweet food very frequently. Never consume fried and spicy food items. Don't get covetted by the chillies or chilly powder. ||110|| |
Swachchha asaave satwik anna | Taaje ruchikar aani rasapoorna |
Your satwik food should also be fresh, tasty and essenceful., It should be prepard from leafy vegetables and fruit vegetables of different varieties. Such satwik food is naturally and already tasty and palatable. ||111|| |
ugeech aatawoon aatawoon rabadi khaane | waatoon waatoon puranpoli karane |
Many people coagulate milk by boiling it for a long time and make rabadi (coagulated milk). Sometimes, a sweet wheaten stuffed pancake is prepared by mashing the stuff of Gram beans again and again. Sometimes small pieces of gram flour and small wheaten chapatees are fried. All these food items mean the repast of impudant people. ||112|| |
Chaloon chaaloon kela rawa | pisoon kisoon bharala khawa |
Sifting again and again through fine cloth or sieve, granular is made from wheat flour. Grafting and grinding again and again a paste of conglobated milk is stuffed into the wheaten cake. People consume these food items very gladly and admire it. But further, consuming this kind of food bellifully, their organs in stomach get disordered and fail to digest the food properly. ||113|| |
Kaahinni khaanyaacheech waadhawili kala | Bhaat khaatee topala topala |
Some people develop the art of consuming food. They consume basketful of cooked rice and have glasses full of tamarind water soup over it. ||114|| |
Kaahi laadu pedhe khoopachi khaati | Rabadi, halwa tandoni ghetee |
Then there are some strange persons. They overeat the sweet balls (ladoos) and sweet composed conglobated milk (pedhaa). They quarrel and struggle to get rabadi and Halwa (pomfret) more and more. Even some of them bet upon consuming more and more and put money on stake for it. They go on counting and measuring how much more one eats to win the dining race. ||115|| |
Mag tyaane pachan hoyeena | saara shareeracha hoya dhingaana |
But all such overburdening belly with such kind of food stuff further produces digesting complaints. This indigestion and constipation destroy their physical health and they fall prey to various diseases and suffer agonies from those diseases. ||116|| |
Konee swaadasathi bhojan karitee | Nako taree potaat kombatee |
Some consume dainty food only for the sake of its good taste and saviour. Having no hunger, they stuff their bellies with such food unnecessarily. This unwanted consuming makes them suffer from cholera, indigestion,dysentery etc. ||117|| |
Kahinna hotey udarkundee | chaale apaanaatoon durgandhee |
Some suffer from constipation and bad stinking gases pass through their anus. people laugh at them and say, "Why does he consume food and drink so much at his pleasure?" They ridicule them in this way. ||118|| |
Prakruteechya viruddha aahaar | naahi kaal welaacha sumaar |
Therefore the victuals contrary to your natural physical needs, consuming those at any odd times (and which are a mixture of odd kinds such as sour, oilly etc.) prove to be poisonous and harmful to your health and hygiene. ||119|| |
Kaahi lok aisechi khaatee | prakrutee bighadliyaa aushadh ghetee |
Yet some people go on eating such harmful food items. When fall sick they take medicines. How can a poor man afford to spend his hard earned money upon medicines ? So the members of every house consider themselves to be the doctors and physicians and administer household treatment as they think to be right and remedial. ||120|| |
Doctor mhanatee pathyachi naahi | Tene rogaache mool taisechi raahi |
The doctors assure the patients that no dietetics are needed to observe in their treatment on the diseases. The patients also don't want to have restrictions of dietetics. Therefore though they recover from the diseases, the roots of those diseases remain in their bodies. It is as if they are striving for an early death. ||121|| |
Pahile khawonee masta whaave | Mag aushadhe ghewooni pachawaave |
First they go on consuming in uncontrolled way ardently. Then they try to digest it by taking medicines. Why should one enact in such troublesome way without proper consideration and impudence? ||122|| |
ugeech aahe aise khaane | pachavinyaasathi choorna ghene |
Overconsuming, unnecessrily consuming or consuming odd food items is not only a waste of food and useless but also harmful to man's physical conditions. They then take some digestive medicinal powder to digest that food stuff. This is nothing but spoiling the preeious juicy food. Why should one do all these unwanted enactments? ||123|| |
Aat waadhat jaata vikrutee | Dhanwantarhi kaaya karitee?
When a person develops some disorders and destortions due to overeating, even Dhanwantari (The doctor of the Gods and Goddesses, here Dhanwantari means the most expert doctor) can't cure him and save him from the diseases. He may spend a lot of money upon costly medicines and medical treatment, all these efforts become fruitless and go to dust. ||124|| |
Parantu lok agrahi padatee| Hitchintak mhanoni khaaya detee |
But people persist and press again and again and make the person to eat more. They may be our well wishers and press you with loving affection. But the listeners should firmly bear this in mind that this action of them is harmful to our body. ||125|| |
Niyamit saatwik annachi khave | saadhe, taaje bhajipaale barave |
Always maintain regularity in your daily repast. Always insist upon including simple but excellent and nutritious leaf vegetables as they are truly satwik. Also if you can afford to have, add milk and curd also to your repast. Similarly always consume as much food as necessary to your body. Treat your food as the medicine itself which we take in prescribed measure. ||126|| |
Sarva bhojani uttam bhojan | jyaat goghrut-dugdha-takrapaan |
The most excellent repast is it which contains cow milk products such as ghee (ghruta), milk and buttermilk etc. All these cow-milk products in your repast are as precious as necter (the drink of Gods). ||127|| |
Godugdha nitya sewan karita | kaayakalpachi hoya tatwata |
Regular consuming of cow milk can bring favourable and excellent changes in our aging bodies. This process is called kaaya kalpa (Remaking the weakened and worn body (due to old age) energetic and young). Cow-milk helps us to have energy, swiftness, intelligence and good hygiene always at hand. ||128|| |
Nirogi aayushya laabhel bahut | Alpamrutyu athawa rogaachi saath |
(Vandaniya maharaj says) It will help us to live a long and healthy life. Deaths at an early age or the epidemics of dreadful diseases will never dare stepping in our village. ||129|| |
Iti shreegraamgeetagrantha | Guru-shastra-swaanubhava-sammat |
The scripture Graamgeeta is well consented by the Guru, shastraas and self experiences. This fourteenth chapter, dealing with the noble disciplined behaviour of the individual and gaining good health and hygiene for our villages is hereby concluded. ||130|| |
|| Sadgurunaath Maharaj ki jai ||
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| VOLITIONS |
| 1) We go after the deities like Marimaata, We believe in cooing of a person, as if possessed by some evil soul. We believe in the village mantrikas. All we do this through our ignorance and misunderstandings. Now we resolve that we shall ward off all these misunderstandings in the villagers. 2) We resolve that we shall determine to live a well regulated and controlled life and try to seek the prosperity in wordly and spiritual life. 3) Everyday, we shall get up early in the morning (at Brahma muhoorta), meditate, have morning drinks and finish our personal purification. We shall have a cold water bath before the day-break. Then we shall enact some spiritual practices such as meditation and repeating God's name etc. The pleasant contact with the fresh and cold morning air in the early morning is very benefitial to our sound health. It keeps our minds fresh and pure. It grows the red cells in our blood and creates reactionary powers against diseases. So, to have all these gains, we shall get up early in the morning . 4) We shall consume saatwik (plain, simple and nutritious) food. We shall recite a chapter from the Geeta before our repast; so that we shall have good and moral impressions of the repast upon our beings. We shall have good inspiration and our minds and souls will become pure. 5) Even a poor can have saatwik meals. Food, which is produced in the farms and fields through our hard efforts, such as leafy vegetables, fruits etc is saatwik. Food grains sought by putting ourselves to hard labour in cultivation and even fragments of pulses can also become a satwik food for us. We shall overpower the disabilities and weakness due to old age by consuming cow milk and cow milk products. We shall have our daily routine and behaviour in strictly well disciplined and regulated way. |
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