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 HEALTH.

This is the most important subject for us all. There is a saying in Sanskrit, namely, "The body is the first and the chief means for doing all kinds of good work." A person with a weak and diseased body can do little. Therefore we must have a healthy body. To keep our body in health, we must be regular in all our actions. No one can keep his body in health without proper exercise, regular meals and all possible cleanliness.

If any one impartially and carefully studies the Hindu methods and rules prescribed in their religious books for a person's behaviour from birth to death, and for each hour of the day from early morning till the time to go to bed, he can not but come to the conclusion that every one of them is framed with this object