I am promoting healthy living by encouraging everyone to get up close and personal with the food that you eat, have fun getting physical and socialize. Healthy living consist of the steps and strategies one puts in place to achieve optimum health. My steps include; maintaining a spiritual relationship, eating to live and not living to eat, staying physical by gardening, swimming and walking, stimulating my brain by reading and teaching and socializing with neighbors, church members, clubs memberships, cultivating healthy relationships and enjoying life.

Eat food that is grown organically, it is better for your overall health to grow your own food and eat fresh. However, whether you grow it, purchase it from an Eco Farmer or organic store; at a minimum, once per day, eat a fruit, vegetable or herb that was grown free of chemicals.

Grow a garden, whether it is one vegetable, fruit or herb, in a container on your window, on your balcony, on the porch, or in your pristine city backyard. It is not easy in the city to grow a garden, but it is possible. It requires at least 1 hr per day to take care of a small garden that produces food for a family of four (4). I have learned, from experience, some basic steps to grow a successful backyard garden, in the city.

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My reverend teachers, mothers and friends! In the continuation of previous narration of story, we have been constantly contemplating that the ultimate goal of the travelling of this peace striving soul continued from the birth after birth is attainment of God, the seat of peace. Only in the form of human being, this wish has a possibility to be fulfilled. Therefore, the creator of Shastras and Rishis have considered that attainment of God is “the Supreme Object” or Param Purusharth of human being.

In the first Chapter, the discourse started with the contemplation of God, as if indicated towards this reality. But equality in virtues and interests creates friendship. According to this maxim for the attainment of that pious being the man will have to make his body, mind and soul healthy-strong and pure. To attain the love of dearest God, the man will have to love the beloved subject of that God i.e. one’s own family, neighbours, society, nation and human beings, even every creature. From chapter second to chapter eighth Ashram Dharma, Panch Maha Yajna and carrying out the restrictions and rules have been narrated only with this aim. Now we will discuss in short about God and Veda, the immortal book of knowledge of God, according to the seventh chapter of Satyarth Prakash.

Realization of God

My Friends and Mothers! As we all know, the Sun rises in the east and sets in the west, every day. The day comes after the night and vice-versa as a matter of rule. The tree of mango does not give apple and the tree of apple does not give mango. Man does not take birth from a horse and a horse does not take birth out of man. That which takes a birth definitely dies. There is a difference of intellect, capacity, and worldly pleasures and sorrows in the creatures. The magnificent creation of nature, the perpetuity of universal laws, ornamentation and amazing body structure, and inability to human perception to understand the mysteries, miner details, and strangeness, instability of the world, dependence of human beings and lack of knowledge are the evidences that there must be some Supreme, Omniscient, Omnipotent, Imperceptible, Active Force working behind this universe.

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