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What is the importance of fasting

A spiritual teaching on the practice and benefits of gradual fasting.

"Slowly, day by day, try to decrease your diet. If you eat 100 spoons of rice, then every day reduce one spoon."

"Fasting removes the tamas guṇa from the body, and the body has time to regenerate. Immunity will increase... Mind, emotion, and intellect will be balanced."

The speaker provides a detailed method for incrementally reducing food intake over two months, explaining that this disciplined fasting purifies the body by reducing tamas guṇa (inertia). The claimed benefits include improved regeneration, immunity, memory, mental balance, and lung capacity, framed as a path to physical and emotional well-being.

Recording location: Hungary, Vep, Summer seminar

Slowly, day by day, try to decrease your diet. If you eat 100 spoons of rice, then every day reduce one spoon. In one month, you will have 30 spoons less. There you will notice that your tamas guṇa is getting less and less. In two months, you have 60 spoons less. Remain on that diet. This means we have to reduce what we are eating by 60% over two months; otherwise, your body will feel suddenly weak. Fasting removes the tamas guṇa from the body, and the body has time to regenerate. Immunity will increase so that your healthy body will try to reject, or let's say consume, all your unhealthy cells. Memory will develop; this power will be strong. Mind, emotion, and intellect will be balanced, and many physical and emotional problems will be balanced. As a philosopher from Greece said, "We shall eat for living, not live for eating." More oxygen will be stored in the body, lung capacity will improve, and you will have a good appetite. Fasting is for your own benefit. Fasting is something for one's own good. Recording location: Hungary, Vep, Summer seminar

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