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be done. If you have this mental attitude, your selfishness disappears and the benefits come.

In addition to practicing asanas there are other things you may want to do to hasten your development and achieve spiritual bliss.

• Use discrimination before any action, making sure your actions are honest, respectful, and right.

• Avoid cruelty. Often students will automatically abandon meat, not because it’s bad for the body, but because they don’t want to participate in the violence of eating their fellow beings.

• Practice pranayama, or breath control. The ancient masters believed that every life had a preordained or finite number of breaths in it. Pranayama was developed to extend the breath, and thus lengthen life. Most people practice pranayama in the morning, between 4 A.M. and 6 A.M., when the mind and senses are calm. After 4 P.M., once the body is warmed up from the day’s movement, they do asanas. You move 20 percent better then.

• Maintain a light diet — juices, fruits, salads — after 6 P.M. You’ll have a good sleep and wake up refreshed. Your stomach must be empty during sleep because that’s when the body repairs itself; with food in it the body is

occupied with digestion so you wake up more tired than

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