Twice daily

Expressions researched:
"Daily, new dress, or twice new dress" |"daily food twice" |"daily twice" |"daily wash the cloth twice" |"daily, twice" |"twice and thrice daily" |"twice daily" |"twice, thrice daily"

Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures

Elephant is taking hundred pounds daily, twice.

Lecture on BG 5.7-13 -- New York, August 27, 1966:

I am not proprietor, I am not enjoyer. I am allowed to enjoy whatever is allotted to me. Just like take, for example, foodstuff. You can take foodstuff as much as you require for your maintenance of the body. Now if you take more, then you'll be in trouble, and if you take less, then you'll be in trouble. You have to take exactly what is prescribed for you. Just like the elephant. Elephant is taking hundred pounds daily, twice. Once at a time he takes hundred pounds or more than that. And the ant takes only one grain. Now if the ant thinks that "I shall also take hundred pounds," oh, it is impossible for him. It is impossible. (chuckling) And if the elephant thinks, "All right, the ant is taking one grain. I shall take." No. That is not. The system is that in God's kingdom, in God's creation, for everybody, there is sufficient food. You take as much as you require. That is the natural way. In the nature's way you'll find, beginning from the ant to the elephant, they will not take more, they will not take less. If to the elephant you give two hundred pounds foodstuff, he'll take only a hundred pounds as he requires. Neither he'll take the foodstuff to his place to stock it for next day.