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continued too long starvation will begin. When the heart-beat becomes alarmingly slow and one becomes exceptionally weak, it is time to stop fasting. It is important to remember that this point will be reached in some individuals long before it would be in others.
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Fasting is not starvation. Fasting is purging the physical system of its impurities and readjusting, regulating its vital currents. Starvation is with drawing nourishment to the system, it is killing the system. In fasting there is a double action, twofold activity. There is the ceasing of adding impurities from without and there is the will form within, which brings about circumstances that throw out the impurities from within. The Soul, the individual, places himself in an attitude, an atmosphere, an activity, in which the higher upadhis or Karmaprakratis throw them-selves in harmonious vibration with the object of this spiritual aspiration. This harmony re-acts on the lower upadhis or Karmaprakratis by reflection. The mental and Atmic attitude of the individual, the recitation of Mantras, the meditation of a spiritual subject, the contemplation on a spiritual being, help in purging the system of its undesirable toxins.
It goes without saying, the more highly civilized the human being, the more sensitive and delicately balanced is his cerebral machinery. The more sensitive the cerebral machinery, the greater the risk of being overthrown and disturbed on slightest provocation,.
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