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We are eating for living and not living for eating
Exercise and fasting are essential for maintaining energy and clarity in spiritual practice. Reduce your diet gradually while incorporating physical exercises and prāṇāyāma to preserve muscle strength and prevent weakness. These practices enhance your energy, decision-making, and vision. Hinduism observes numerous fasting days dedicated to various deities and lunar phases, embedding fasting deeply into spiritual life. The purpose is to sustain your energy. On fasting days, the consumed food becomes prasāda, which is typically rich, sweet, and fatty, providing necessary nourishment for the brain. Therefore, excessively reducing sugar is not advisable.
"Stretching postures and prāṇāyāma will give you more energy, clear decisions, and clear vision."
"On the fasting day, you get very rich food, because that becomes a prasāda, and prasāda is always sweet and fat, like ghee."
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