Answer

If you want to do Navkarshi, you should eat or drink only after a fixed time after sunrise, traditionally about 48 minutes after sunrise.

Until that time, you should avoid food and water, and spend the morning with peaceful thoughts, prayer, and awareness.

How to Do Navkarshi

• Wake up early with a calm mind.
• Find the local sunrise time for that day.
• Wait until about 48 minutes after sunrise.
• Before eating, remember the Navkar Mantra or do a short prayer.
• After the Navkarshi time is completed, eat simple and suitable food.
• Try to avoid anger, harsh speech, carelessness, and unnecessary worldly thoughts.

Spiritual Understanding

Navkarshi is not only delaying food. In Jain Dharma, it is a small form of self-discipline that helps reduce attachment to taste and comfort. It reminds us to begin the day with restraint, purity, and devotion.

Takeaway

To do Navkarshi, observe restraint from food and water until about 48 minutes after sunrise, then eat with mindfulness and gratitude after remembering the Navkar Mantra.