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Chapter VI
The rules for fasting are of superlative value to those who want to fast at home without expert supervision. I shall, therefore, endeavour to give in this chapter what I believe to be adequate instructions to conduct your own fasting. Without these instructions fasting at home without expert supervision might end in failure or, at least, you might not derive the expected good results from this process of purification. Hence, I shall in this chapter deal with the following important questions :
1) Who needs to fast?
2) Is it safe to fast?
3) How long should a person fast?
4) How should the fast be conducted?
5) When should the fast be broken?
6) How should the fast be broken?
I shall now endeavour to give an adequate answer to each one of the above important questions in the way they are enumerated.
Who Needs To Fast
Specifically, every person who has saturated his body with morbid waste products to the extent that he is suffering discomfort, anguish or pain is in need of undergoing purification of the organism through fasting. Generally, even persons who do not feel discomfort or pain may also be in need of fasting. It is possible for a person to be saturated with pathologic matter to the extent of being on the verge of a dangerous acute disease or even sudden death, without feeling discomfort or pain until the crises arrive.
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