The important practice is the niyamas or observances such as cleanliness, a positive quality which helps us to have a clean mind. Negative thoughts and emotions create pain and ignorance. Ignorance means we forget who we are. We forget the goal of life. Negative thoughts and emotions are usually thoughts which involve I-ness and my –ness. It means the body is no longer so important. For the person of average consciousness, the body is everything. We spend most of the time looking after our body. Every little aspect of the body is overemphasized, the hair, the eyes, the eyebrows, the skin, the nose, the lips, the teeth, the nails, the arms, the feet, the nails etc. the body becomes a monument, the purer we become the less interested we are in the body. They have a fresh start from god. But as we go through life, accumulation takes place in all of us. The body starts to smell. And because the mind is also made of matter, albeit of a subtler frequency, it also starts to smell. With an impure body and an impure mind the sense of taste also becomes impure. The desire to eat meat manifests. Meat actually appears to taste good, because it is served on a nice silver platter with various tools and toys such as table cloth etc.
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