Eat only those foods that are liked by God. Refrain from consuming foods that are not liked by God because the consumption of such foods will spoil your health. When you eat them, they will first give happiness but later they will damage the veins leading to pain in the legs, arms, head or stomach. In the olden days, it was normal for Brahmins (persons adept in spiritual practices) to live a hundred years and often in excess of a hundred years. Nowadays, people start losing their strength even before they attain forty years of age and commence the intake of medicines. People are afflicted by cholesterol, blood pressure and excess sugar in their blood and so on. This is because they continue to consume negative energy.
Swami is fond of saying: “Eat whatever you get from earth, but do not eat what you get from the stomach” or “Whatever
you get from the stomach is non-vegetarian and whatever you get from the earth is vegetarian”. We used to give such advice to one and all. You must be vegetarian for at least twenty-five days in a month; you may eat what you like for the remaining five days. You can eat whatever you like and we do not have the authority to stop you from doing that. Nobody has that authority. You are free to live as you wish, but it is our duty to advise you on what is good for you.
A doctor can prescribe you medicines, and if you want to be restored to good health, it is important to consume those prescribed medicines. When there is a problem with let us say, eyesight, the doctor will prescribe eye drops. The doctor will not apply the drops to your eyes. You will have to do that yourself. In the same way, you must meticulously follow the instructions of the Guru and only then will all your problems go away. Only the Guru can tell you the root cause of your problems.
You must not commit any sins. Even if we kill a mosquito, be sure it is a sin. Do not kill a mosquito, but do get rid of the problem which causes the mosquito to breed. We kill a mosquito, but we do not eliminate the causes that help mosquitoes breed. By removing the causes of their breeding, we rid ourselves of the problem of killing them later.
We all face problems and we all pray to God for their removal. We must actually pray to god to remove the cause of the problem. There is a reason for all the problems we face in our lives; there is no problem without a cause. When we go to a doctor, he will invariably tell you the cause of your problem.
In the same way, there is always a cause or a reason for our problems. If you look at those reasons, it will invariably point to a wrongdoing. This is why we must not indulge in wrongdoings. We must not commit any sins. We must destroy all our sins. We must stop committing sins and only then pray to God.