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What is the importance of fasting
Fasting gradually reduces tamas guṇa, allowing the body to regenerate. Decrease your diet slowly, like reducing one spoon of rice daily from 100. In two months, you eat 40 spoons, a 60% reduction from the original. This steady decrease prevents sudden weakness. Fasting increases immunity, enabling the body to consume unhealthy cells. Memory strengthens, and mind, emotion, and intellect balance. Physical and emotional problems find equilibrium. More oxygen is stored, lung capacity improves, and appetite becomes good. Fasting benefits you personally, shifting focus from eating to living.
"We shall eat for living, not live for eating."
"Fasting is something for one's own good."
Filming location: Vép, Hungary
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The text contains hyperlinks in bold to three authoritative books on yoga, written by humans, to clarify the context of the lecture:
- Yoga in Daily Life - The System
Paramhans Swami Maheshwarananda. Ibera Verlag, Vienna, 2000. ISBN 978-3-85052-000-3 - The Hidden Power in Humans - Chakras and Kundalini
Paramhans Swami Maheshwarananda. Ibera Verlag, Vienna, 2004. ISBN 978-3-85052-197-0 - Lila Amrit - The Divine Life of Sri Mahaprabhuji
Paramhans Swami Madhavananda. Int. Sri Deep Madhavananda Ashram Fellowship, Vienna, 1998. ISBN 3-85052-104-4