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A question comes to me very often, nearly every week and in seminars, and I think many would like to hear my opinion. It concerns a significant problem, a health problem. It seems that nowadays, diseases like cancer are becoming more and more common. People who never smoke, who practice yoga daily and try to lead a healthy life, even they get some kind of cancer, like lung cancer or something else. This leads to two mental or psychic questions for oneself: "Though I lead a vegetarian life, I didn't use any kind of drugs or nicotine. I practice every day. How is it possible that I get cancer also?" And of course, some people who don't practice yoga or follow a healthy way of life also get cancer. The reality is that nowadays, it is not only about whether you are eating vegetarian, healthy food or not. Everything is in the air. If you had not led a healthy life, who knows what more would have happened? Your healthy way of life has protected you and given you a long life. This problem is part of the entire modern system of life—not only stress, but pollution in the air, pesticides in vegetables and fruits, and also in milk products. Unfortunately, this is developing within this system, and our immunity power is very little. And it is also karmic. It is the karma that we are born in this Kali Yuga. Therefore, we should accept every kind of illness or anything that happens to us and try to get treatment. Now, the main question is this: where am I coming from now? Someone says, "Now I have cancer, and what should I do?" It may seem too late. But though it may be late, can we do something? Yes. We should know that medical science, allopathic medical science, has made immense development in the research world. So we should not deny, in this situation, that kind of treatment. If a doctor prescribes a kind of medicine, be sure it is not a joy for a doctor to write you such a medicine. But according to the doctor’s knowledge, that’s all he or she could do. Therefore, what you call chemotherapy, or some operation, can still save our life. But at the same time, we should turn to nature. It means now we should search for healthy food, healthy water, a healthy environment, and healthy air. We have to look for these. It is said that prevention or precaution has more effect on your health than medicine. So, prevention is better than treatment, as we call it. So, after an operation, we also have to take some kind of preventive measures. Generally, it is said that there are very good, different kinds of juices: the juices of seasonal vegetables, root vegetables, citrus fruits, ginger especially, and barley leaves. Árpalevél? The beer comes from barley... no, no, not beer. From barley, yes? No, not barley—basil. Basilicum, basilicum leaf. Basilicum? You get them in the summer; they are like a small plant like this, and they have leaves like little stars, and you cut them and put them on salad or in soup. Spinach has a very great effect on the body, and turmeric powder. It has a very good taste, but when you have to drink it every day, then you don't like it. But you know, after a certain age, all taste should go away—after a certain period of time, the taste dies; there is no more taste, you just try to survive. So bitter things are good. Ginger and turmeric powder are very good, and different juices that you should take. Many people had great success in this when they turned their life to what is called a raw diet. And they created milk products... unfortunately. If your cow doesn’t get any kind of injections and not artificial feeders, only the fresh grass from the field, then that milk is very good. Honey also has a very great effect on health. Different oil seeds are much better, and then the oil of those seeds. It is better to make chapatis than to have bread. So every man and woman should learn how to cook and how to make chapatis. This means you have to become your own doctor. If you do this, then your physician will be very happy with you. If we do this, our doctor will be very satisfied with us.