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Chapter V<br />

<strong>The</strong> Threefold Nature of Food<br />

"Food when eaten becomes threefold. What is<br />

coarsest in it becomes faeces, what is medium<br />

becomes flesh and what is subtlest becomes mind.<br />

2<br />

"Water when drunk becomes threefold. What is<br />

coarsest in it becomes urine, what is medium becomes<br />

blood and what is subtlest becomes prana.<br />

3<br />

"Fire when eaten becomes threefold. What is coarsest<br />

in it becomes bone, what is medium becomes marrow<br />

and what is subtlest becomes speech.<br />

4<br />

"<strong>The</strong> mind, my dear, consists of food, the prana of water<br />

and speech of heat."<br />

"Please, venerable Sir, instruct me further."<br />

"So be it, my dear"<br />

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