During fasting do not entertain thoughts of food. You will not get the benefits of
fasting if your mind ever dwells on food. Turn your mind towards God. Entertain
sublime, divine thoughts.
During fasting the tongue will be thickly coated. This indicates that the process of
recovery is being hastened to a very great degree. The breath is foul. This is a
sign that the impurities are being eliminated through the lungs.
During the fasting days and when you break the fast do not take pulses, ghee,
nuts and other foodstuffs, which are difficult to digest. Take only light, non-
stimulant, bland diet.
If you have a tendency to vomit while fasting, drink plenty of water. The water
can be flavored with a little lemon juice. Take enema. If vomiting persists break
the fast slowly and properly.
A fast can be broken at any time. But if you break the fast before hunger appears
naturally, you will not realize the maximum benefits of a fast.
When you break a fast take fresh grape or orange juice or pomegranate juice,
just a teaspoonful to begin with. Increase the dose gradually each hour up to a
glassful.
After the fast is properly broken and also during the breaking period, you may
have a tendency towards constipation, but later on this will completely vanish.
That is the reason why a fruit diet should be strictly adhered to for the first few
days after breaking fast.
If the fast is broken improperly and the stomach is overloaded by eating too
much and too heavy a type of food stuff you become bloated and swollen after
breaking a long fast. To get rid of this, fast again. Take one or more enemas daily
and hot baths. When swelling vanishes break the fast; this time slowly and
properly.
Give up the erroneous notion that fasting weakens your body or thereby you lose
your strength. On the contrary, it is the most effective and drugless method of
revitalizing your system and rebuilding health. Therefore, take recourse to fast-
cure and be healthy forever.
Diet After Fasting
After a short fast, 3 to 6 days.
1 st Day: Three or four meals of choice fresh citrus fruit.