1. Navkarsi

Don’t eat or drink untill 48 minutes after sunrise, then recite Navkar 3 times and

break the fast. By doing navkarsi one day, a person can shed karmas

equivalent to 100 years of torture in hell – i.e. karma nirjara.

2. Porasi

You break fast more than 3 hours after sunrise. Karma nirjara equivalent to

1,000 years of hell life.

3. Sadhporasi

You break fast 4½ hrs after sunrise. Karma nirjara – 10,000 years of hell life.

4. Purimuddha

Break fast exactly after ½ day passes = 100,000 years of karma nirjara from hell

torture.

5. Avadha

When only ¼ of the day remaines, break the fast.

6. Aekashan

Eat only once, sitting at one place for less than 48 minutes. Also drink cooled

boiled water, up to sunset. 1 million years equivalent karma nirjara.

7. Nivi

Eat only in one sitting, eat special fried food and things made out of yogurt.

Karm nirja =10 million years

8. Aymbil

One meal without any vigai (10 billion years of karma nirjara)

9. Ansan

Means fasting, partial or complete, for a pre determined time.