Your Stomach Can't Digest Taste. Here’s the Secret to Unlocking Its Power.

I'm going to share a simple truth that completely changed how I think about food: your stomach cannot digest taste. It can only digest matter—the physical substance of food that can be seen. The taste itself, that invisible, powerful essence, has only one place where it can be processed and turned into energy: your tongue.

This might sound strange, but understanding this fundamental principle is, in my view, the key to unlocking the true pranic energy from your food. When we swallow our food too quickly, without truly savoring it, we are throwing away one of the most potent forms of nourishment available to us.

The Art of "Taste Digestion"

Every food we eat has some taste in it. When we place that food in our mouth and begin to chew, we feel that taste. As we continue to chew, the taste slowly disappears. What is happening in that moment? The taste buds on our tongue are absorbing the taste and converting it directly into energy.

If we swallow the food before this process is complete—while it still has taste—that undigested taste will simply pass through our system and go out of the body as waste. Your stomach is not capable of digesting it.

So, if we truly wish for all the tastes in our food to be converted into life-giving energy, there is only one way. My advice is this: you should enjoy all the tastes in the food by keeping it in your mouth and chewing it until it becomes a totally tasteless matter. Absolutely no taste should be present in the food when you swallow it. If we eat properly in this way, we get a double benefit: the pranic energy from the taste of the food and the pranic energy from the matter of the food. Let us all live a healthy life by swallowing our food only after we have enjoyed all its taste.

How Much of Each Taste? Ask Your Tongue.

This is a doubt many people have. They ask me, "Which parts of my body have been affected? Which tastes do I need? How much of each taste should I eat?" My answer is always the same: nobody in this world can tell you how much of each taste you should eat. You also do not know the answer.

So how can we find out? The answer is simple: ask your tongue.

Your tongue is the doctor in your body. The taste is the medicine. Your tongue alone knows exactly how much of each taste you should eat for your specific needs on any given day. So, please do not ask, "How much sweet taste should I take for each meal?" You can, and should, eat as much sweet as is desired by your tongue. Follow this technique for all the tastes.

Think about a marriage feast, with a huge number of dishes served. Observe closely how different people eat. Some people will eat certain dishes a lot and not touch others at all. Another person will eat a lot of completely different dishes. Why? The reason is that the work done by each person, the diseases in their body, and the energy needed by them vary from person to person. As a result, different people need different tastes.

Therefore, you need not bother much about how much of each taste you should eat. Start eating different dishes with different tastes. When you put a dish in your mouth, eat it if your tongue likes it. Do not eat it if your tongue does not like it. If you eat each taste to the extent your tongue asks for it, I believe the diseases in your body will be cured and you will be healthy.

A Note on Sweet Taste and Following the Rules

Our forefathers had a tradition of serving a sweet dish first when food was served. We've already seen that sweet taste is the energy needed for the liver, spleen, and stomach to function well. Our ancestors figured out that the food will be digested well if we eat sweet—which gives energy to the stomach—before we eat other food.

Some people eat sweet only after they've finished their meal. Eating sweet first is better than eating it at the end. This doesn't mean you should eat two big rounds of sweet porridge and then start the other dishes! It just means starting with a little sweet. You can even have some more sweet in the middle or at the end. Eating sweet first is just one helpful guideline; it is not compulsory.

And this brings me to another important aspect of my philosophy. You have learned a number of techniques from me. It is not absolutely compulsory that you must follow all of them, every single time. Sometimes, you may not be able to. So, my most important advice is to eat without fear and without worry. If you eat your meal feeling bad that you didn't eat sweet at the beginning, that negative feeling itself will ensure your food does not get digested well.

So, please try to follow these guidelines to the extent you can. But do not feel guilty if you cannot follow one. Please eat confidently without any worry or fear. Let us all live a healthy life