Absolute Justice, Kindness and Kinship — Page 81
— Part I 80 The following simple illustration will help elaborate the case in point: the appetite in man creates in him the awareness of the requirements of energy. The sense of sight, smell, touch and taste, and even in some cases the sense of hearing, all immediately begin to take an active part in determining what is good and what is bad for the man in need of some form of energy. When man begins to chew a morsel of food, the taste buds, heat buds, sensory organs relating to touch etc. , teeth and salivary glands, jaw bones, and muscles of the jaws, all begin to play a perfectly balanced role. At last when something is swallowed, the selection process begins to play a more profound role in disintegrating the food into its constituent materials and purifying it from alien matters not needed by the body. Again, every step is taken to protect man from the harmful effects of bacterial or viral impurities. After these stages the partially digested food is broken into such chemical elements as can be readily assimilated and recycled into other more complex organic materials. These are but a few oversimplified examples of how the human body is well equipped for the safe consumption of its food. If the balance is disturbed, the quality of life and health would be adversely affected. The balance has to be so perfectly measured and precisely proportioned that even a slight disturbance within it can pose a threat of death to life.