Food intake in Sadhana

Q: My capacity of taking food is being reduced more and more. Is it an accompaniment of the inertia?

You must not let that movement go too far. It is one of the dangers of the sadhana, because of the ascetic turn of the Yoga in the past that as experiences come the suggestion comes that food or sleep etc. are not necessary and also there may come an inclination in the body not to eat or not to sleep. But if that is accepted the results are often disastrous.

It is no more to be accepted than the inertia itself.

– Sri Aurobindo