हठयोग प्रदीपिका (योगी स्वात्माराम - ज्योत्स्ना टीका सहित सटीक)

20 HAṬHAYOGAPRADĪPIKĀ 60. Diet of the following nature should be avoided as unhealthy: food that [having been once cooked has grown cold and] is heated again; which is dry [i.e. devoid of fat] or has an excess of salt or sourness; that is bad, or has too much of vegetables [mixed with it]. 61. In the beginning, fire, woman [i.e. sex] and journeys should be avoided. For thus Gorakṣa says: ‘Association with bad company, [basking near the] fire [during winter], women and long journeys, bathing early in the morning, fasting, etc. and hard physical activity should be avoided.’ Basking near the fire, sexual intercourse and long journeys to sacred places by foot should be avoided during the early period of practice. After the novice completely masters the practice, he may optionally have recourse to fire during winter, sexual intercourse with his wife during the proper time (as laid down in the Smṛti-s), and journeys by foot to sacred places provided that he is a gṛhastha (householder). That this is the view taken by the author is clear from the verse quoted from Gorakṣanātha. Bathing early in the morning brings on cold, and fasting and such other practices tax the body; therefore these should also be avoided. Fasting increases the secretion of bile. 62. The following things are suitable to be taken by the Yogin: Wheat, rice, barley, the grain called Ṣaṣṭika and purified food, milk, ghee, brown sugar, butter, sugar-candy, honey, dry ginger, the vegetable called paṭolaka, and the five pot-herbs [called in Sanskrit Jīvantī, Vâstumūlyā, Akṣi, Meghanāda and Punarnavā], green gram and pure water.