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Famous Fasts from the Past
Mahatma Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in 1869 in India and was murdered in 1948 by the fanatic Hindu Nathuram Godsey.
Gandhi also fought for the peaceful understanding of different religions.
When fights broke out between Hindus and Moslems he tried to talk to them and
when that did not help he started to fast which he did a lot of times in his
life.
Once he nearly fasted to death when Hindus and Moslems fought against each other. Then the fights stopped and the two religions started to live together in peace again. Gandhi also fasted when he heard of violence against the British or against soldiers or policemen. Violence made him very sad and he had more than once the feeling that all he had done was useless when people fought each other again.
GANDHI ON FASTING
- Fasting is an institution as old as Adam. It has been resorted to for self-purification or for some ends, noble as well as ignoble.
- A complete fast is a complete and literal denial of self. It is the truest prayer.
- A genuine fast cleanses the body, mind and soul. It crucifies the flesh and to that extent sets the soul free.
- What the eyes are for the outer world, fasts are for the inner
- My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove one must fast and pray.
- Fear is not a disease of the body, fear kills the soul.
- A fear-stricken person can never know God, and one who knows God will never fear a mortal man.
- Where there is fear, there is not religion.
- It is weakness which breeds fear, and fear breeds distrust.
- There would be no one to frighten you if you refuse to be afraid.
- For a non-violent person, the whole world is one family. He will thus fear none, nor will others fear him.
- The golden rule is to act fearlessly upon what one believes to be right.
- Fearlessness presupposes calmness and peace of mind.
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