There is an incessant struggle going on within us between our Soul and Satan for the control of our body. If the soul gains the ascendancy, the body becomes a most potent instrument of good; but, if the devil is victorious in the struggle, it becomes a hot-bed of vice. Hell itself would be preferable to the body which is the slave of vice, which is constantly filled with decaying matter and which emits filthy odours, whose hands and feet are employed in unworthy deeds, whose tongue is employed in eating things that ought not to be eaten or in uttering language that ought not to be uttered, whose eyes are employed in seeing things that ought not to be seen, whose ears are employed in the hearing of things that ought not to be heard, and whose nose is employed in the smelling of things that ought not to be smelt. But, while hell is never mistaken for heaven by anybody, our body which is rendered worse than hell by ourselves is, strangely enough, regarded by us as almost heavenly! So monstrous is our vanity, and so pitiful our pride, in this matter! Those who make use of a palace as a latrine, or vice versa, must certainly reap the fruit of their folly. So too, if, while our body is really in the Devil’s hands, we should fancy that we are enjoying true health, we shall have only ourselves to thank for the terrible consequences that are sure to follow.
To conclude, then our attempt in these pages has been to teach the great truth that perfect health can be attained only by living in obedience to the laws of God, and defying the power of Satan. True happiness is impossible without true health, and true health is impossible without a rigid control of the palate. All the other senses will automatically come under our control when the palate has been brought under control. And he who has conquered his senses has really conquered the whole world, and he becomes a part of God. We cannot realise Rama by reading the Ramayana, or Krishna by reading the Gita, or God by reading the Koran, or Christ by reading the Bible; the only means of realising them is by developing a pure and noble character. Character is based on virtuous action, and virtuous action is grounded on Truth. Truth, then, is the source and foundation of all things that are good and great. Hence, a fearless and unflinching pursuit of the ideal of Truth and Righteousness is the key-note of true health as of all else. And if we have succeeded (in however feeble a measure) in bringing this grand fact home to our reader, our object in writing these pages would have been amply fulfilled.
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| Page | Line | For | Read |
| 2 | 2 | êvam | êva |
| 11 | 8 | beings | being |
| 40 | 3 | Kapah | Kapha |
| 41 | 6 | had begun | begun |
| 51 | 16 | detial | detail |
| 66 | 21 | admire | pride |
| 67 | 26 | surley | surely |
| 87 | 14 | would | should |
| 97 | 4 | fus | pus |
| 100 | 2 | according | according to |
| 102 | 16 | Sriget | Siegel |
| 104 | 11 | wick | brick |
| 108 | 15 | vaccinations | vaccination |
| 110 | 22 | difference | deference |
| 111 | 25 | patients | patient |
| 120 | 1 | passion | passions |
| 128 | 28 | and | end |
| 130 | 22 | piece | pair |
| 132 | 4 | superstitious | superstitions |
| 134 | 3, 9 | god | God |
| 137 | 25 | vareity | a variety |
| 138 | 3 | Godly | godly |
| 144 | 10 | is | are |
| 33 | 18 | brid | bird |
| 79 | 3 | that omit | |
| 88 | 2 | some | none |