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Sad Guru, why do people fast on ekada-dashi days? Is there a spiritual significance?

Every 42 48 days the system goes through a certain cycle.

Three days will appear where your body does not need food.

If you give this break it's very, very good for your health and your body the way it functions.

It can carry you to completely different dimensions of experience and living.

If you observe the natural cycle of the body, there is something called a mandala.

Every 40 to 48 days the system goes through a certain cycle.

In every cycle of this, every single cycle, in this three days will appear where your body does not need food.

If you are conscious of how your body functions, you will become aware that today my body does not need

foods.

And without any effort, you can go without food and that thing if you observe the cycle proper.

If that awareness is not there as to which day that is for that in India they fixed what is called as e-Kathashi.

That means four days before the full moon, four days before the new moon day, people don't eat.

They wake up in the morning, no breakfast, no lunch, only after the sun sets they eat one meal.

This is just to allow the system to realign itself. If you give this break, it's

very, very good for your health and your body, the way it functions because the system needs

the time to adjust itself.

Every day food, everyday food, it's a lot of hard work for the body.

Give it a little break.

If you're not able to fast and one day you go on something lighter, maybe just chooses or

something else which is much lighter for the system to handle, definitely body will be

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