Railway Minister Lalu Prasad on Tuesday turned philosophical in the company of yoga guru Swami Ramdav, saying life was akin to a railway platform and each person has to travel by the next train to his destination.
“Life is nothing but a mass hanging by a frail string... each one of us who has arrived here has to leave by the next train to his destination. This world is nothing but a platform like the ones in New Delhi railway station,” Mr Yadav told a book launch function here.
Sitting beside Ramdev, Lalu turned critical of life in big cities, saying: “Nature knew in advance that each one of us would be full of lifestyle diseases and hence we have Delhi full of jamun trees. Have a stomach-full of jamuns and be healthy.
“The neem trees in cities are inhabited by goddess Durga,” he said.
He also spelt out a list of do’s and don’ts for the audience, saying spices at home should be freshly prepared and people should avoid using pressure cookers.
“The stomach is a boiler and yoga is a exercise meant to vent the steam inside,” he said.
Lalu, who recently visited Badrinath, expressed admiration for yoga.

 and said Ramdev’s prescription was a boon for the downtrodden.
“Yoga is a secret to change life from ‘disorder to in-order’ without much pain and expenditure,” he said.