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health. The correct choice of food and medicine is obviously conducive to good health.
In a mother's womb the fetus receives the food the mother eats. Thus it develops gradually into a
body. Therefore every mother desirous of the infant's health must avoid unsuitable food that will
harm her pregnancy. The baby in the womb absorbs nutrition from the food eaten by the mother
through the umbilical cord. Knowing this expecting mother must be careful with their diet.
There is a useful advice for the expectant mother. Eat nutritious food; avoid abrupt and awkward
movements; check up the pregnancy with a doctor; eat and sleep regularly. Only with such care,
a healthy mother can bear healthy children. It is the duty of every mother to be careful with her
diet since her early days of pregnancy.
10.9 Conclusion
For the good deed of writing this chapter, may all readers perform good deeds conducive to good
health and physical fitness in this life while on the way to Nibbána! May your close friends be fit
and healthy so that they may do meritorious deeds and fulfill parami perfections until the day
they attain Nibbána, the supreme bliss.
11.0 The abodes of living beings.
11.0 Chapter Eleven
31 - Planes of Existence
There are 31 planes of existence - four woeful planes, seven sensuous blissful planes and
twenty Brahma planes.
The four woeful planes are
• hell,
• animal kingdom,
• hungry ghosts and
• Demons.
The seven sensuous blissful planes are the human world and six celestial planes, namely –
1. Human abode
2. The realm of the Four Kings - Catumaharaja
3. The realm of the Thirty-three gods - , Tavatimsa
4. The realm of Yama gods - Yama ,
5. The delightful realm - Tushita
6. The realm of gods enjoying their own creation - Nimmanarati
7. The realm of gods lording over the creation of others - and Paranimmitavassavat
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