I always fast for whole 9days during Navratri and also many fasts goes on during a year with different mythological significances but I also do them for some extra reasons.
The toughest I've done is 9days without a pinch of salt consumption, of course your can't eat any serial but we have this fasting salt that we mostly use in fast related food and can consume, it is considered so. But one I did was without any form of salt consumption. It was challenging but equally exciting. I like to challenge myself. I successfully did that.
Also I've done no water for almost 30hrs, including no food too. I consume water very excessively so for a person like me who after waking up within 2 hours consumer at least a litre of water and during whole day drinks approx. 9-10 litres it was challenging too. I enjoyed it. It was exhausting but still surviving it was thrilling and gave me confidence that I'm not slave of anything.
This time I'm doing only with fast salt. Exam time so to concentrate you need to be healthy.
I have different ideology for doing any fast.
May it be Teej and Nirjala ekadashi vrat, fasting even without a drop of water or normal fasts without food that we generally eat.
I fast coz I want to give myself a tolerance test. Hunger is something which many people can't control. Being human being we many times loose control on ourselves may it be on our emotions or any other thing. There should be self discipline into everyone imbibed by own will. We should know how to control ourselves. We only try controlling people, things and circumstances around us but not try any type of control on our own selves.
Fast gives you strength to control your needs and greeds. It let one be calm, composed and patient. It brings awareness and presence of mind so that you remember whole day that you don't have to munch on to anything. Many times I forget that it's my fast and at morning after brush I have tendency to search for munching something but sometimes all of sudden even before my hands could reach to any food my brain automatically reminds me that today is your fast and I stop there. It even increases memory, you may say.
It gives me strong will power. No matter how much tasty and favourite food is being made at home and being served to others or even I have to serve them at times or cook for them but I can still eat just fruits or salad and not even once in my mind a thought would come regretting that today is my fast and I can't eat it or my mouth would water. Coz fasting too is my decision so I stick to my decision happily. Coz today is definitely not last day of my life nor is it that I've never ate my favourite food ever. So I'm positive that today I can eat fruits and be happy into it and be hopeful that someday I'll get to eat that too.
I always believe in, Eat to live not live to eat!
Hence I love fasting coz its gives me patience, challenge, self control, self discipline, strong will power, builds my inner strength of not being greedy for anything material, provides inner satisfaction in being happy with what I've and I can, and many more things! :)
PS: For girls it also helps in losing weight! ;) :P
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