Advice for Losing Weight

Question: Do you have any advice for people who are trying to lose weight?

Sri Chinmoy: One way will be to drink at least five glasses of water a day. I used to take seven or eight glasses, but five glasses would be right for some of the girls. The second way is to smell a flower. It does not have to be a rose, but take any flower that you like. While smelling the flower, imagine that the fragrance of the flower is entering into your system, your stomach, and purifying your system. I have not practised this, but I feel that it can help. The fragrance of the flower purifies, and when there is purity, desire is fulfilled. Your desire is to lose weight, so if purity enters into your system, then you are bound to lose weight. I have not practised this, but I am telling you about this because it is my own feeling.

The other advice is practical, to drink five glasses of water every day. And the second way you can try with any flower that has fragrance. In your case, you do not have to lose weight; you are perfect, perfect. Only walk and run every day.

18 February 2007 Chiang Mai, Thailand