Stool Color

When you use beetroot in vegetable juice or eat beetroot curry, its waste will be of the same color even after it is digested. The digestive juices in the intestines cannot change it, so your urine and stool may come out with similar color. This point is worth mentioning, so that you don’t mistake it to blood. Likewise, if you eat leafy vegetables, your stool may appear green. This does not mean you haven’t digested the food and it has come out raw. Don’t be frightened and don’t worry about the color. An odorless motion is a sign of good health!

Bowel movements due to raw vegetable juice

Most of us are used to eating cooked, hot food. Then, when you begin your new regimen, you drink raw vegetable juice. Your stomach may not be able to handle it and will release it in the form of motions. Don’t worry, even if you have four or five motions a day. If you have more, stop drinking raw vegetable juice for two days. When you resume it on the third day, you can add water to the juice and sip it slowly, as you would coffee. Once your body gets used to it, then you can have thick, strong juice later. If you don’t like the taste and drink it quickly, you may vomit it, so be sure to follow the recommendation here.

First, you must tune your mind to your new life style! We want a sound mind in a sound body, elders say. But to get that sound body, I say you must have a sound mind first. Accept the reality that you drink the juice not for its taste, but for your sake, in the sense, to purify your blood and to keep you fit and healthy.

Third Dharma

After exercising and sweating you should relax for ten minutes in “Savaasana” (no movement). Then again, without pause, drink another liter to liter and a half of water. If you concentrate on your large intestine, you will have a free bowel movement of large quantity once more, since it was stirred in your bowels during your exercise. The fecal matter from the food you ate yesterday comes out and the large intestine now is totally free as if you have cleansed it. Two motions in the morning make for a happy day and good health. Through exercise, heat is produced in your body. It hastens the movement of the waste material into the blood and the water you drink in turn quickly excretes it. At this point, you have cleansed your inner body. Now clean your outer body. Have a bath. Earlier, if you drank only two liters, now take one more liter of water. This last liter gives the body a final wash. If you have already consumed three liters you can stop there. The excretory act is still occurring. Now, after bath you can pray to the God of your choice. You should pray for a truthful life and the friendship of saintly people.

Dharma of Excretion or Dharma of Fasting

Animals are free to urinate anywhere any time. For anyone, the output is more important than the intake of food. If we eat before sunset and then rest the body, around midnight, the dharma of fasting begins to do its internal work. It continues until we eat something solid again next morning.

If we take fruits, raw vegetables or juice, they don’t hinder excretory action. Around 9 or 10 a.m., we can eat sprouts or some breakfast. Then, after an hour the excretory action comes to an end.

As soon as you get up, say around 6 or 7 am, if you drink coffee or tea, it stimulates your body interrupting the excretory process. That’s why you are advised to take light food in the morning.

Our health depends upon the amount of time we give to this excretory action. If we wish to have a bright, energetic body, free from any ailment, we must respect this dharma of fasting. The food we take is converted into energy, but in the process even waste matter is secreted. It is released in the form of solid, liquid, or gas. If these three forms of waste material have to be eliminated by our excretory organs, we should at least be considerate of them and provide them rest.

If we eat before 7 pm our excretory parts will function effectively. However, if we delay eating until 9 or 10 pm, they will not have sufficient time. Waste materials get stagnated in the body. Food eaten at 10 pm will not be digested completely before we rise the next morning. Typically, immediately after we get up, we eat again. It means we are eating further before we can even eliminate the waste material of the previous day. In a way, we eat too much. That leads to many diseases. Diseases spoil the temple in which our soul lives. How can we lead proper lives then? If we wish to be disease-free, we must follow the dharma of rest and allow our body to eliminate waste material first. If we don’t adhere to this dharma, no doctor, no specialty hospital, no God, and no amount of money can save us. We can continue to be human beings only if we live by this dharma. Otherwise we are demons in the form of men.