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Introduction
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If a fat person becomes lean or a lean person becomes
fat without any evident cause, he dies within a month.
One thing that must be noted in connection with the
above circumstances is that all of them do not occur in
every case. One or some may appear in one person while
another person may have other symptoms. However, the follo-
wing two symptoms appear universally in everyone :
(i) Close the fist of right hand and place it in the middle
of the forehead straight above the nose. If you see the hand
thus placed you will find that the entire fore-arm right below
the fist to the elbow is appearing very thin. Now, seeing thus
if someday you do not see the wrist portion, that is, the fore-
arm and the fist appear as two separate units, then should
take it that from that day onwards only six months of your
life-span are left-that is, death would come within six
you
months.
(ii) Closing the eye if one presses the inner end of the
eyelid he will see a bright Star shining inside the eye. Now,
the day he does not see this Star, is indicative of death within
only 10 days.
VI.
Divination of Diseases and their Aversion.
When the Svaras in the nostrils do not adhere to their
fixed timings and days then the body develops diseases. In
case a disease has developed due to erroneous functioning of
the Svaras, then a correction of that functioning can cure
that disease. In this connection some possible diseases and
methods of their aversion or cure are as follows:
(i) Fever -When feverishness is felt then one should stop
the Svara which is flowing at the moment and keep it stopped
till full recovery. Lying on the same side of which the Svara
is flowing will stop that Svara. Soft cotton can also be placed
in the nostril which is required to be stopped.
(ii) Headache-When headache is felt, one should lie down
straight on his back and stretch both his hands sideways along
the body. (assame Savisana). In this posture he should then
xxiii
If a fat person becomes lean or a lean person becomes
fat without any evident cause, he dies within a month.
One thing that must be noted in connection with the
above circumstances is that all of them do not occur in
every case. One or some may appear in one person while
another person may have other symptoms. However, the follo-
wing two symptoms appear universally in everyone :
(i) Close the fist of right hand and place it in the middle
of the forehead straight above the nose. If you see the hand
thus placed you will find that the entire fore-arm right below
the fist to the elbow is appearing very thin. Now, seeing thus
if someday you do not see the wrist portion, that is, the fore-
arm and the fist appear as two separate units, then should
take it that from that day onwards only six months of your
life-span are left-that is, death would come within six
you
months.
(ii) Closing the eye if one presses the inner end of the
eyelid he will see a bright Star shining inside the eye. Now,
the day he does not see this Star, is indicative of death within
only 10 days.
VI.
Divination of Diseases and their Aversion.
When the Svaras in the nostrils do not adhere to their
fixed timings and days then the body develops diseases. In
case a disease has developed due to erroneous functioning of
the Svaras, then a correction of that functioning can cure
that disease. In this connection some possible diseases and
methods of their aversion or cure are as follows:
(i) Fever -When feverishness is felt then one should stop
the Svara which is flowing at the moment and keep it stopped
till full recovery. Lying on the same side of which the Svara
is flowing will stop that Svara. Soft cotton can also be placed
in the nostril which is required to be stopped.
(ii) Headache-When headache is felt, one should lie down
straight on his back and stretch both his hands sideways along
the body. (assame Savisana). In this posture he should then