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Many people are unhappy about how to lose weight. This problem is so easy to solve—you can't imagine how easy it is—but you have no discipline: don't eat, drink water and water. Five liters of water per day. What will happen? You have to go to the toilet and so on. That is the best purification for the kidneys, the best rest and purification for the liver, and the best rest and purification for the stomach. For the first three days, you will be very weak, but then your body will regenerate and create energy. The body will eat the body; all unnecessary fat will be consumed. Then you will have 90% fewer health problems. But don't do this without instructions or without a surgeon or what you call a doctor. Perhaps you are pregnant—it's not good for fasting—or you have diabetes, or you have very low blood pressure. There are many, many things. So it's not like Swāmījī said, "Don't eat anything, and now we will not eat anything." But you can reduce your diet. If you are used to eating one kilo, then reduce it by seventy-five percent; eat only a quarter kilo, and a quarter kilo of water, and a quarter kilo of air, and a quarter kilo of space. You will see that your scale, the weight watcher, will be showing you every day one kilo less, half a kilo less. It's very important that you get a diagnosis of your blood. If some mineral is missing, vitamins, many things, so it's not that you just begin fasting. But for those who have extra kilos, I will suggest that it is a very good diet. Many of you can do it too; try to eat only vegetables and fruits for one year. We call it phalāhāra. Phalāhāra: āhāra means the diet, and phala means the fruits. So all kinds of fruits except bananas. If you eat ten bananas every day because you are very hungry, then under your skin will be many bananas. You can have one piece of banana every third day. Otherwise, eat many fruits, eat a lot of salad, eat cooked or baked vegetables, but not fried. You may have your tea or coffee; you can have milk in your tea or coffee. You can have one cup of yogurt per day. Try to avoid potatoes, because some people say, "If Swāmījī allows potatoes and bananas, then I will be okay." So if you quit everything and eat only potatoes, then very soon you can roll yourself. So no potatoes. Also try to avoid beans, except mūṅg beans, because they have got a lot of protein, and also soy. You can eat what you call tofu, but not fried or fatty, and a maximum of 150 grams of tofu per day, not more than that. So you can eat as much as you like of everything, except grains, potatoes, and bananas. You can cook vegetables. The best way to cook vegetables, I can tell you one recipe. This is for lazy persons and those who don't know how to cook; people like this very much. This is the safest, very safe way. You know what a cooking pot is, in which you cook vegetables, or your mother or your wife or your husband cooks spaghetti, or potatoes are boiled, or the vegetable pot. Who doesn't know? Except children one year old. The best would be if you have a pot made out of clay, the earth. All you have to be careful about is that it doesn't break. And don't put it without water on the fire or with a little oil. The second-best pot is made out of iron, not steel iron, but other, what you call cast iron. Especially people who have a lack of iron in the blood should cook in this pot. Now you put this pot in front of you on the table. Whatever you want to cook, any vegetables or mixed vegetables, except potatoes and beans. Also no chana beans, chickpeas, also not. Everything you put in that pot; you take vegetables and put them in the pot. Also put your tomatoes or no tomatoes, and put inside whatever spices you want to put. Chili according to your taste or no chili. There are some chilies that are very little but very sharp, hot. That chili which is small, only two centimeters, three centimeters, is very harmful for the intestines. It can cause holes in the intestines, or what they call ulcers. But the Hungarian paprika, that is the best. I would say everybody should import paprika from Hungary; at least in this way, we can support the Hungarian economy more. So any kind of paprika or what they call chili, pepperoni, which has a thick fruit, that's healthy. Of course, according to your taste, and if you want only some color and not hot, then you also have sweet paprika. Also, the Hungarian sweet paprika is very famous. I must also buy some to take to Jadan. You must put in, in any case, very good is haldi, the turmeric powder. For one person, a quarter teaspoon. You put inside cumin seeds, powdered, a quarter teaspoon. And then other kinds of spices, whatever you want to put in. This is for one person. Then you put one tablespoon of sesame oil or olive oil or almond oil. The other oil is finished, no more. And one cup of water, a big teacup, not a Yugoslavian coffee cup. Where is your cooking pot? Can someone tell me where it is? On the table. You put all inside, and salt according to your taste; if you don't know, then put half of a quarter spoon; after, you can add it according to your taste. Now cover it, what? The pot. And put it on the fire, not very high heat, medium heat. You go to the bathroom, wash yourself, cover your hands and this and that. This is for one person only, yes. Arrange the dining table with a nice plate, nice spoon, glass, and tissues, and imagine that you will be sitting here. After 15 minutes on the heat, when you open the lid a little bit, you see inside it is very hot. Beginning to boil, take it off the heat and leave it for 15 to 20 minutes. So it was on the heat only 10 to 15 minutes, and 10 to 15 minutes without fire. Do not open the lid; if it is very, very important, then you open the lid. Otherwise, since you put it on the fire, do not open it. When the vegetable is halfway done, you take it away. Every cook knows, without taking the lid away, if the vegetable is done or not. In India, every lady knows; even a small blind girl knows the vegetable is halfway done without looking, so it is not a very big job. After half an hour, your dinner, lunch, or breakfast is ready. You will enjoy your vegetable without bread, without rice, without dumplings, cannelloni, and so on. This is a very healthy preparation; it is a difficult one. In one word, throw everything in, close it, put it on the fire, now take it off, and after half an hour, take it all in the plate and eat, wash it, and hurry home. This way you will not lose the vitamins and minerals from the vegetables. And you should eat once a day something hot, and this is vegetable, or a hot dal soup, vegetable soup. And you can eat salad, any salad, as much as you like; in the salad, do not put raw potato, and do not put in the salad what we call eggplant, otherwise it is good. Do not be hungry; if you are used to eating half a kilo, now eat one and a half kilos. Your master gives you a lot, but only vegetables. Fruits, grapes, oranges, apples and kiwis, papaya, all except banana. This diet you should do for a minimum of one year. But after one year, if you begin to eat normally, then the condition is like this: this evening you take one bean in your hand, a dry bean, very nice dried, and now put it in a glass of water. In the morning take that bean and see how it was a small being and became a big being. So for one year you were disciplined, and when you begin to eat, then again you will be like someone is pumping air inside. Now what to do? But this does not happen; practice physical exercises every day. That will change your tissues; that will change the muscles, and the whole condition of the body will be changed. It is very important that we try to keep our body healthy. But those who are underweight, or have diabetes, or very low pressure, should do this very slowly or under the guidance of a physician. So now, what is it? You have all kinds of taste. And at the same time, you are fasting, Falahārī. Let us say sometimes you have a biting desire to bite. Once I did one week of fasting without anything, only drinking water, a little juice, and chai. I must confess, after five days, in the night I was dreaming of a big pizza and nice soda water, mineral water, and chili pickle on it, you know, so that happens. So in order to avoid this, you keep ready with you carrots and eat the carrots, not chewing gum. Carrots also have vitamin E, vitamin A is good for eyesight, it has iron, also there are some minerals in it, and it is good for your gums and muscles. So you can chew or bite coconut or almonds, not other nuts, per day, let us say 30 to 50 grams, slowly bite. So that you have enough to eat, and you will feel very light. Every three months or four months, let us control your blood to be sure that you do not mix something. But you know, in vegetable is everything there. And in lentil is everything there, proteins. And we have so unnecessarily fats; it will all be digested. You need discipline. This diet I advised many people. They are very happy and very healthy, but some could not survive. It means they were very weak, and the trick was this: they begin to eat consciously, but not to be guilty, feeling, not to have a guilty feeling. They say, "It is prasāda, ah, chapati, Swāmījī's chapati, prasāda, two chapatis, okay." "I am not eating, I am fasting, but today pizza is a prasāda." "Spaghetti is prasāda." Then the condition is different. So it is easy to gain kilos for 99% of the people, but difficult to get rid of it. So I agree very much with Mahāprabhujī; He said, "If you have a backside pillow, very soon it will come in the front." This back pillow is easy to remove, but the front pillow is not easy to move, it is difficult, and that is true. So, also it is very good for our heart, and it is very good for our joints, and very, very good for the veins. Mostly people who have overweight have vein problems. But if you have no overweight and are doing prāṇāyāma and eating well, then you will have no vein problems. So, both things: you are eating very much, very tasteful, but at the same time, your body is regenerating what we left out, dairy products and carbs. It means any kind of grains; that is very nice. So now, after one year, when you begin to eat normally, first do not begin immediately. Khatu Praṇām three times a day, eleven rounds. Eleven morning, eleven noon, eleven evening, and enjoy a healthy, happy, long, harmonious life. And try to have control, strict control over yourself when you go shopping. When you go to the big supermarket, a food supermarket, then you should write here, left and right. I want only salad. I only look at salad, take salad, and go out. Because the food stories have a big, good temptation, so phalahārī is very important. Those who have the problem that they are very slippery, sleepy, dizzy in the morning and can't get up, make one experiment: don't eat any kinds of grains and cheese; grain means bread also not; you will have no problem to sleep. And no problem to get up. And of course, we can do here our flowery diet; if you agree, it will be very good, except for children and pregnant women. Recording location: Hungary, Vep, Summer seminar