Whatever be the trouble, however great be the sorrow, persist and win over it by recalling the Lord’s Name.

Food habits are of primary importance when health has to be secured and maintained. When these are not regulated, health suffers. One should restrain the wild adventuresomeness of the tongue. Among the 84 lakh species of living beings, except humans all live on food as provided by Mother Nature. Man alone strives to make such food more palatable, more attractive to the senses of sight, touch and smell by boiling, frying and freezing, and mixing, grinding and soaking. The consequence of this greed is ill-health and debility. One should realise that food materials, as offered by nature, are really more beneficial. When heat is applied, they lose the vitality yielding components and cannot confer strength and efficiency. The person ages fast and loses the sprightliness of youth. Catering to the cravings of the tongue and swallowing heavy foods three or four times a day can only add to the heap. Regular and limited intakes alone can enable a person to discharge one's duties.

Bagavan Sri Sri Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Moderate food, moderate sleep, prema, fortitude - these will help in the upkeep of the health of both body and mind.

The one effective way to conquer all sources of physical and mental disease and debility is awareness of one's Divine Reality. That will bring about an upsurge of Love and Light, for when you recognise that you are the Atma, you cognise the same Atma in all, share the joy and grief of all, and partake of the strength and weakness of all. When you yearn for the happiness and prosperity of all mankind, you will be blessed with the wisdom and strength to mark the way and lead all towards it. In every one, you will see God. Every act of yours will then be pure, sincere and sacred as an offering to God. Good words, good manners, good vision and thoughts—these are essential for good health! What can powerful and costly medicines do if one is ill with bad thoughts and bad feelings? Virtuous living, beneficial thoughts, elevating ideals and righteous conduct will confer health, and more precious, Atmananda (bliss of the Self)!

Bagavan Sri Sri Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Love for all should spontaneously flow from your heart, and sweeten all your words.

It is a hard job to know about your own Self. Take the case of the food that you eat with your own mouth. You feel it in your stomach and after that, you do not experience what happens to it at each stage. Then how can you know, without acquiring the special means for it, the Truth that lies behind the sheaths that encase and enclose you - the Annamaya, Pranamaya, Manomaya, Vijnanamaya and Anandamaya (sheaths of food, vital energy, mind, intelligence and bliss)? Clear your dheeshakti (intellectual power) of the cobwebs of ego, the dust of desire, the soot of greed and envy, and it becomes a fit instrument for revealing the Inner Truth. "Know yourself, know the Inner Motivator, the Antaryamin(Indweller)" - that is the exhortation of the scriptures of all faiths. For unless you are armed with that knowledge, you are like a ship without a compass, sailing on a stormy sea.

Bagavan Sri Sri Sri Sathya Sai Baba