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Swami Vivekanand had said that you'd be closer to heaven, if you'd play football rather than reading the Gita.
Had this been said today, they will instantly be labelled to be anti-Hindu.
But what did Swami Vivekananda mean by this line?
Here, he was actually talking about weakness. Both physical and mental weakness. He didn't ask you not to read the Gita. He said that before you read it, you need the strength to do so. Physically as well as mentally. Only if you have the strength, you will be able to better understand the Gita and the Upanishads. And to gain this strength, you need to remove the physical and mental weakness within yourself.
To remove the physical weakness and to gain strength, he said that one needs to have a nutritious diet. You need to eat healthy foods, and do physical exercises regularly. Like playing football. Only then you'd become physically strong. In our lives as well, we can learn from this.
Today, many people have an unhealthy diet. Eating packaged food or eating out. This needs to be avoided as much as possible. And home-cooked meals should be eaten. Even at home, try to have a variety of food. Buckwheat, tapioca, different types of grains, ragi, bajra, corn, eat organic food. In addition to it, do physical exercise too.
Nowadays many people complain that they don't get the time to exercise, so in a day, exercise for at least 15 minutes is a routine that makes you sweat. That's better than not exercising at all.
A certain level of physical strength is very important if you want to study well. That's all about the physical weakness.
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