Everyone wants to live happily – 24/7. Only some people enjoy that happiness and fulfil their lie. Most of the people keep trying just as it is somewhere else. They are not able to experience that the joy is in ourselves. To get that happiness, we need to understand one thing – we are different and our body is different. We are sitting in this vehicle (called the body) and continuing the journey of life. Though we buy a car, spending a lot of money, it doesn’t give happiness to the car. All those facilities belong to us, who are travelling in it. If the car undergoes a repair, it doesn’t feel any pain or inconvenience. All the inconvenience affects us, who are travelling in it. Similarly: As long as this vehicle, called body works fine, for us – inside the car – it will be happy for us. If there is any inconvenicce, to the body, it is supplied to us, instead of joy. As what we give to the body, accordingly, the body gives us the results. If we eat what the body needs, then the body won’t spoil our joy. For example, if we eat fruit and raw vegetables, we will be happy even after eating them. The body will be peaceful and light. The stomach is designed to digest such food. So, by eating it, the stomach doesn’t lose its pleasantness. When the stomach is pleasant, the body will by joyful. When the body is pleasant, we will be pleasant. If any part of the body is affected, it will affect the whole body. If one family member is hurt, it will affect the whole family. If a small nut is loosened, it will affect the whole car. In this body, each organ and every cell is designed to eat the nature-given natural food. If we eat the that food, which the body wants, the body will digest it in 1-2 hours and sends the essence to all cells. When cells get what they want, they imbibe the essence as for more immediately. That’s why, when we eat natural food, we will be hungry in 2 hours. That hunger is the real joy. The body tells you, ‘the food you have eaten earlier, is also digested. I want it again’. In case, instead of fruit and raw vegetables, if we fill the stomach with idli, dosha, puri, then the stomach cannot digest them, and struggles in digesting the food – as it doesn’t have an option. When the joy of stomach is gone, our joy also is gone. The happiness we used to have before eating that food, we cannot retain after eating them. That’s why, even after eating them, the stomach will feel heavy, drowsy, and lazy – we feel, why we have eaten that food. They just satisfy the tongue, but are useful for nothing else. For that food to get digested, it takes 4-5 hours. For the cells to take the essence of the tiffin, it takes more time. That’s why, after eating them, the appetite will die. It takes a long time to get hungry again. Our elderly people have thought that if we eat food that is cooked against the nature, we will lose our joy, hence they has set a rule that, during auspicious days, on festivals, marriages, it is restricted not to eat cooked food. They expected that at least on those days, we will have food that gives pleasure to the stomach, such as – coconut water, fruit juice, fruit. That’s why, if we have to fulfil this life, and if we want to live happily, there is only one principle. If we eat the same food that the body is designed to take, then all the cells and the organs in the body will function their duties properly. When everyone does his job well, why will we have any problems? We will be happy – 24/7.

This gross body is made of food. The different nutrients of the food are used for the formation of different organs of the body. If we use this body every day, its nutrients decrease gradually. Day by day, we need to fill this gap with good food, then, the body’s organs work well without fatigue. If we run the car daily, oil, air, water and engine oil will gradually decrease. We will them up again and continue our journey. We fill the content according to the amount that is decreased. Are we filling the deficiency each day like this? If we do that, then why does this body has problems? Because, the reason is our food itself has the problem – the food that we are giving to the body, daily. Didn’t you get it what I am saying? The cooked food. In this nature, except humans, no other creature is trying to eat food by changing its natural status or by boiling it. That’s why, their eyes, legs, muscles, nerves are working well till their life span. In the natural food that they are taking, their daily needs are being fulfilled. The natural food is designed with all tastes, in different shapes, sizes, containing all nutrients in optimum percentages to suit the body needs. After humans are civilized, we started cooling for our convenience. The benefit of cooked food is only for the tongue and mouth. Though these two organs are satisfied, this whole body is suffering because of it. The properties of fire are: to burn, to turn into ashes, or to destroy. If we are giving the food to fire, that has to nourish us, then what will be left in them to benefit us? What is the benefit of eating it? By cooking the food, all the enzymes will die in them. Three parts of the vitamins will get evaporated. prana energy and life energy get destroyed. The food is no longer easily digestible. The fats and proteins convert so that they become as a burden to the body. Moreover, all the immunity of the food will be gone, and it turns into an energy that increases the disease. We are eating this kind of food – which contains so many minus points – 3-4 times a day and are wishing to live healthily. Boiled food is minus food. It can also be called negative food. The natural food is the plus food. This can be called as positive food. It depends on our food either our body to grow or to diminish. I will explain you with an example, how cooking food can destroy things. As we bring the groceries, to be used for a year and keep them under the sun for two days and then store them in the boxes, they won’t get spoiled till the next year. Instead of keeping them under sun, if you fry them lightly (6-70 degrees), and then store them in the boxes. In 10-15 days, they will be spooled. Before the farmer are sowing the seeds, they dry the seeds under the sun and then make them plants. Instead, if they fry the seeds at 60-70 degrees of temperature, not a single seed will become a plant. With such slightest heat, if the life energy and life particles are getting destroyed, then, in our daily cooking, in our fries, does the fire god leave us anything? When we are making curries, they are heated up to 100-110 degrees. It an item is fried in oil, the food will be exposed to 300 degrees. By eating such food, the body is looking for the required nutrients. To rectify this situation, doctors are prescribing tablets (calcium tablets, vitamin tablets, minerals etc) to every patient. To overcome the vitamin deficiency problem, we have the awareness to take medicine. But, we are not getting the awareness that, ‘because of this food, I had this deficiency. From now, it self, I should eat good food’. Even after the body is affected by the disease, we should get the awareness. But, the body is still seeking in the form of the disease that, ‘I want good food’. But, if don’t listen to it, what does the body do? We will have to suffer. So, if we start eating the natural food (cooked by the sun), then our body will have good days. If I ask you to stop the cooked food 100% from tomorrow, you will stop reading this book now itself, and you will become obstinate. So, we will come to an agreement. From tomorrow, at least 50-60% of food to be eaten as raw. Gradually, you can increase it to 75% of natural food. When you get an opportunity, eat natural food throughout the day. We will protect ourselves by doing such things.

This is the question that is running in every one’s mind. People think that, ‘if food is not cooked, the germs, harmful insects, their larva, enter our body and may cause fatal diseases. If we cook food, then it will be purified’. With this perception, they are hesitating to eat the natural food that is available in the nature. When the food is cooked, along with the harmful germs, all the life energy that keeps our prana for longer days, is also getting disappeared from the cooked food. More than the harm we get from the germs, the loss for cooking it is 3 times more. Except us, all other living creatures are eating the food as it is – naturally. But, these germs and insects are not doing any harms to them. They are not facing any problems such as viral fevers, malaria, typhoid. Dysentery, nausea etc. Right now, what we are eating is the complete cooked food. Throughout the day, we eat only this. If we are not getting affected by any infections and diseases, then, we can assume it as true. Humans have all the diseases that are there. In the food that we are eating, if there are any harmful germs, the liver and the intestines would take care of them. The liver and the intestines have such capability. As we are eating boiled food, with oil and ghee in them, our intestines and liver are becoming weak. Then, what can save us? Think about this! In this nature, worms and insects are natural. They are all part of our life. If we are living naturally and eating natural food, they will be killed in the body naturally. In the food that a pig eats, it is full of worms and insects. But, they cannot do the pig any harm. Of all, pig has the most immunity power. When nature designs the pig’s food like that, then Nature also gives the immunity to it to survive. If we stop eating other rubbish, there will be a lot of original power left in us. When cooking the vegetables - lady’s finger, eggplant (brinjal), cauliflower, before cutting them, we check for insects (so that we can protect ourselves). We eat the birds, hens which eat these insects. Why are we are avoiding these insects there, and why are we eating the flesh made out of the insects? Strange behaviour of man! We don’t understand the mind and its thinking! No one can understand except the creator! No human can understand.

Our ancestors have stated that the gross part of food builds the body and the subtle part becomes the mind. If we eat complete food, these two will become complete. If the soil is good, the pot will be good. If we want to live with complete life span and complete health, we should eat complete food. Whatever colour ink we use; the writing will be in that colour. Our life is also like that. If we understand this truth, everything will be clear or we don’t understand health in life. In nature, we can categorize the food items that are taken by all the living creatures on the earth into these categories: leaves category, raw vegetables category, root category, fruit category, grain category, meat category. One category of animals generally eat the same food throughout their life. If it is asked that what is the food of goats, we will say that it is ‘leaves’. Tiger’s food is, ‘meat’, parrot's food is ‘fruit’, pigeon’s food is grains. All these creatures, eat only the food that is designed for them – they don’t touch the food, designed for others. For example, goats eat only the leaves from trees, leaving fruits, grains. When their needs are fulfilled by leaves, the goats know that they don’t need any other thing. Now, we will come to our issue. If we ask, what is human’s food, everyone will laugh but don’t answer. We got the answer related to all other animals. But, we are not able to answer about our food. Why should we bothered what those animal eat; we should know what we should eat. After thinking, humans tell that, ‘those six categories are ours’. Whatever is seen, it is ours. The human race has no discrimination for any categories. Like league of nations, they mix all things. That’s why, all types of categories of diseases have chosen the human body. As humans are greatest of all, it is better to know what is the most suitable food and eat only that. Let us see what is that great category.

Complete food means the food which contains all nutrients. Just as a supermarket where we find everything, if we eat it, we will get everything. Then, we don’t have any complaint like, ‘this is not sufficient, that is not sufficient, this is there, that is not there’. The body needs 7 types of nutrients daily. They are: starch, proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals, enzymes and fibre. It is the complete food which contains all these seven nutrients. In vegetables, proteins and fats are not available much. But, the remaining five are present in them. Similarly, in fruit. In roots, there are only carbohydrates and the remaining are not available. In leaves, there are all these things except fats. Meat is the worst category of all. Humans should not touch this category. That’s why it is called ‘neechu’. In grains, all the seven nutrients will be available, especially the proteins, fats and enzymes are available in plenty. With proteins, the body gets muscle power, and with fats, the body gets brain power and life span. The grain category can be called complete food category. We may not know this secret, but our ancestors have realized this long ago. That’s why in the food that is offered to deities (prasada), they give vada pappu (moon dal recipe) and coconut. They thought that at least in this way, people can eat grains. In small functions, they give green gram, Bengal gram, nuvvula chimili (laddu with sesame seeds), and in different auspicious occasions, they made us eat the nine grains (nava dhanya). Grains are given to cocks and buffalos, before they are prepared for fights. As far as the brain power is concerned, brahans have more intelligence than others. In the olden days, they have eaten these nava dhanyas and increased the brain power. If we eat these grains once in a day, all our body needs can be fulfilled. So, we will try to eat them. But, don’t eat the grains of sapota or custard apple. Let us see what grains to eat how to eat them.

After a tree’s life time, its leaves, branches, fruit will dry away. But, only the grains remain to keep the tree category live for the next time. All the tree’s history is in the grain. When it sprouts, the history of the tree category starts. The whole banyan tree is hiding in its small grain. To keep the tree alive in nature, to make the tree continue for the generations to come, for the grains to survive in the nature for innumerable years, they need some protection. That’s why, their outer layer is so hard. That hardness is given to protect itself from the environmental changes. When the grains become dry, we cannot eat them – we cannot bite them or chew them. Unless the grains dry up, they cannot be stored. To convert the dry grains to make them edible, we need to sprout them. The grains that we can eat are: gree gram (pesara), Bengal gram (shanaga), black eyed peas (bobbarlu or alasandalu), finger millet (ragulu), wheat (godhuma), sesame (nuvvulu), alpha alpha (look like sesame), ground nuts (veru shanaga), pearl millet (sajjalu), sorghum (jonnalu), and peas (batani). After eating all these names, you would have thought one thing: all the animal food is given to us. We, after eating these grains, improved our health, and then gave them to our animals so that they can improve their health. We made the animals get habituated to these grains, but we stopped eating them. But, they didn’t stop eating them. Let us now start eating them again. Don’t get scared that you need to eat all these grains in one day. These day, so many hybrid types are available in the market. As far as possible, don’t use them. The country type grains are the best grain. The difference 3-4 between country grains and hybrid types are similar to that of country chicken and farm chicken; country eggs and farm eggs. Whatever country grains are available, eat them. Every day, soak 3-4 types of grains. Soak them in different bowls separately in water. The next morning, the keep the soaked grains in different pieces of cloth and tie them. You can also use boxes with holes or you can use sprout maker. Unless they are there for two days, they don’t sprout. From some grains, in one day, the sprout can come out of one-inch length. If it is summer, it is better to sprinkle water on the cloth. Let the sprout has the length of 1-2 inches. Then, the grains can be converted into a stage, which we can easily digest. If the sprout is longer, we don’t have gas trouble. All the fats will be converted into easily-digestible form. The life energy in them increases. As the sprouts are coming, the nutrients grow hundred times. The sprouted grains, converted like this, are in a digestible manner of 40-50%. If you eat them, your stomach needs to digest them only 50-60% only. Just the subtle is the greatest form, grains have such miraculous effects. From tomorrow, we will start the tasks of making sprouts. Let us now know, who should eat which sprouts and in what quantity.

These sprouts can be eaten by all – from 4-5 years of kids to old people. Those who cannot chew, can grind them (not to be too grinded like paste), lick it and swallow. All the remaining people should chew well and eat. Otherwise, it will come out as pieces undigested from discharge. Sprouts should not be eaten during 6-7 in the evening. Most people buy and eat them at that time. It is best to eat them in the morning. If not possible, you can eat in the afternoon as meals. It is okay to just soak the ground nuts – you need not sprout them. You can eat raw coconut as it is. Soaked ground nuts and raw coconut (some pieces or the whole coconut) the growing children, labourers who work under the sun, those who want to grow weight, who want to have muscle, those who suffer from fatigue, must eat these. Those who have sugar, not to eat these two along with the sprouts. Those who want to reduce weight or to reduce cholesterol, they should not eat ground nuts. They can eat raw coconut to some extent. Those who want to reduce weight or who have sugar, must eat sprouts of 3-4 varieties. They won’t allow sugar and weight to grow. Those who are eating groundnuts and coconut, can eat 2-3 types of sprouts along with them. Sprouts can be eaten (mixing all types), in considerable amount daily till the stomach is full. Those who have gas trouble, who have severe constipation, who have appetite problem, can stop sprouts fof 10-15 days, and to have fruit as tiffin. After 15 days, they can eat sprouts. You can eat dates along with these sprouts. Don’t use jiggery. People who have sugar should not eat dates. Those who want to reduce weight can have 7-8 dates while those who are lean, who have fatigue problem, or who has low blood levels can eat 10-15 dates every day morning. As we are suggesting you to eat sprouts in the morning, you can have the doubt – what about the regular tiffin? We are no longer indebted to them. If we go on eating idli and dosa, our health will be deteriorated. So, have them 3-4 times in a month. But, daily, eat sprouts. While eating sprouts, eat nothing boiled along with them. We won’t use grains in the other time of the day. We will take the benefits only in the morning. Look at the benefits for women. They don’t need to do tiffins, chutneys etc in the morning, in a hurry. Four cloth packets – one for each person. You should know how to be happy. If guests come, let us them the same thing. We will teach them this habit to them as well.