The very words “natural food” dishearten many at once. They think it is tasteless and completely unappealing because it lacks salt, oil, seasoning, chilies or spiciness. Innocently ask - How one can eat just boiled vegetables? Is it worth living with such food? Were humans not born to enjoy delicious foods? Of course you can’t be blamed for that. All along you have followed the credo, “Variety is the spice of life” and enjoyed food of various types and flavors.
Consider this crucial fact: if you get sick, your body faces problems. It cannot accept the spicy food as before, but the heart longs for spicy food (with salt, oil, ghee, spices) and demands foods with much more salt. If you fulfill the desires of your heart, slowly all the parts of your body will decay and this body vehicle of yours will go beyond use. Finally it will be made only of various lifeless parts. At this stage you go to doctors; they treat you only your various parts and tell you to give up many tastes and to take medicines forever. If you don’t give up tastes, neither the treatment nor the medicines are useful. As a result you will be in very bad shape. You follow treatment on one side and the restricted diet on the other. You can neither be happy nor unhappy; you are neither very healthy nor very seriously ill. And, you can neither live peacefully nor die peacefully. You pass your problems to others and make others’ lives miserable. You will ultimately arrive at the conclusion that living is the real hell and long for heaven after death.
You know why all these problems crop up in your life? For one simple reason: you are unable to control your urges. If you go to the doctor, you should follow his diet restrictions as well as take his medicines. But are you really cured of your diseases?
No. The doctor benefits from your sickness.
So with Allopathy, no matter what you do, you are never assured of good health. On the other hand, with Naturopathy you follow only diet restrictions; you don’t take a single medicine but are completely assured of good health. It promises a cure from chronic diseases. Decide for yourself!
The food here may be tasteless, but it aims at perfect health. Chronic patients, who go to nature cure hospitals, follow the diet restrictions strictly and get relief from disease. After some time, few of them go back to their earlier habits. Consequently, their diseases also come back to them at once.
Day by day the number of patients, diseases, medicines, doctors, and hospitals are increasing. Such a rapid parasitic growth is not good for any country. From such diseases, our family, our society, our nation and finally we suffer gravely. If we so desire, we could concentrate on a food that gives us both good taste and good health. We should pray to God for that. If we genuinely pray, God is always eager and ready to help. He will send somebody to help us. It is the Dharma. Whatever desire we may have, if it is a good desire, it will be fulfilled.
After you are settled for natural food, there may be a moment when you feel like having tasty food for a change. You will suggest the lady of the house to add a pinch of salt, and she will add a bit more and make a normal curry. Taking only a pinch of salt, a little bit of spice, or two drops of oil will not end with that day. Before you know it, you’ll be back on your normal diet. For instance, you were once a chain smoker and gave it up forever. But if you are tempted to have a smoke for a day or two, you know how it works. You will end up smoking regularly. The dividing line disappears without your knowledge.
Our desire is for good health. If we really want it, we should completely give up salt, oil and spices and bring about a revolution in our eating habit. The natural food we eat should be easy to make and tasty to relish. At the same time, it should help curing the sick and benefit the healthy that believe in prevention than a cure. I experimented making curries with that aim in mind. It worked out, and my wish is fulfilled.
The new curries smell pleasant, attractive to look at, good to eat, and easy to cook! In addition to curries, you can prepare quite a variety of foods in less time and with less expenditure. They give you extra time and energy in your busy day. They don’t give birth to new diseases; on the contrary, they act as preventive medicines. Eating them won’t bother you, and they will brighten your mind. They are useful for all age groups, helpful even to manual workers and last but not least, make you perform better at work.
Are you surprised at this long list? Do you think I am exaggerating? No. If you really taste this new menu, you will discover for yourself more important information I missed. See, it is a chain reaction. If you wish to understand it, you should experience it; if you have to experience it, you should begin it. If you want to begin it, you should develop the desire to follow it. To have the desire, you should first know all about it. So come on! Learn about this new way to prepare your food.
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