Chapter II: Patience and Gratefulness
Two Hands: Two hands are long and fit for catching hold of things. There are many sinews, joints and other technicalities by which the hand may be spread and bent at will. Then the fingers
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have been created with a plan with the thumb at the end. If the fingers would have been joined together, your necessities would not have been met.
Mouth: You lift your food with your hands and put it in your mouth. Had it not been the case, you would not have lived. It is the medium to send food to the stomach. In order to chew food, teeth have been created and the teeth of upper jaw have been placed upon those of the lower jaw for the purpose of crushing food. There are teeth for crushing and teeth for cutting.
Tongue takes the food on all sides and places it under teeth for crushing. Then look to your saliva which gives water to the food when it is dry. Behind this tongue, there is a fountain of water out of which saliva comes and helps wetting. Then look to the wind pipe and the throat, how they help the food to reach the stomach.
Stomach has got a peculiar shape and form. The gas which is produced by the internal organs helps cooking of food in the stomach and digestion. To he right side of stomach is liver and to its left spleei^and before it there is the sheet of fat and behind it is the flesh of backbone. Gas arising out of them enters the stomach for which food is digested and such a juice comes out of it as becomes fit to enter the veins of blood. That becomes then like barley water. There are many sinews of liver which have got many mouths. Food enters them. It is made of a mixture of blood and looks like a clot of blood. God created spleen and gall bladder and for each expanded mouth upto liver has been created: Gall bladder draws out the yellow refuge and spleen takes out oily black things and as a result pure blood remains.
Then God created the glands of urine which have got long necks towards the liver. God takes out sinews from the liver and spreads them throughout the body, some of them are secret and some open. Therein there runs pure blood which reaches the entire body. There are veins and sub-veins just like the leaves of a tree. If there is something wrong in gall bladder and it can not draw out the refuge, blood become impure and the result is the disease of jaundice, erysipelas etc. If the spleen is diseased, it can not draw out black refuge and as a result there grows the disease of leprosy, elephantiasis etc. When liquid cannot go towards throat, there grows the disease of dropsy. Then you can imagine how wonderful is the creation of human body.
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Therefore look to the gifts of God and be grateful to Him for all that you have got from Him.