Being HungryLLL
I seriously want to know very much that who has
invented this fasting system in India and why? I mean how anyone can even think
that being hungry can give you good fortune or good husband or good health or
anything good that you desire. I mean hunger has only given me head ache and I
find many people who get acidity due to hunger.
I have seen many people fasting at home and
elsewhere. Like “agyaras” – 11th day of every month as per Indian
calendar, than they do “sravan mahina” and 4.5 months, or simply any day of the
week like, every Monday or Tuesday will be fast.
Now there are different versions of fasting by
different communities. Once I was at one of my uncle’s place who was fasting
for whole month. There they cooked Farali khichdi, moriya, wafers, fried pea
nuts, rajgra puri, farali kadhi, farali dhokla Farali Bhajiya and Siro of
Rajgro too. Wow.! I would love to do this kind of fast. Is it fast actually? And
they always say (boast), “I always do this fast. I perform so many fasts in a year”.
Well ok if this is what that eat in fasting, I was just thinking what they had
it in regular lunch and dinner.?
Again there’s one uncle who do weekly fast i.e.
Mondays. In lunch, He had 2 sabjis, dal, rice, raita, roti, khaman, patra and salad.
Both were gala lunch that people seldom have in their routine meals. Uncles –
Spare me. It’s fast only I know and respect their way of fasting it’s only that
I fail to understand their version of fasting.
Once we were on office picnic. In office we
always have people from different communities and during our journey we were
discussing about one such topic “fasting”, I don’t know why. We had two Jain
girls who started sharing or rather boasting about their and their families’
fasting capacities. One of the girl said that someone from her family had done
18 fasts at a stretch. The other immediately said that her someone has done 21
day fasts. Now let me tell you in Jainism, during fast they don’t eat or drink
anything. After sun set they don’t even drink water. 21 DAYS WITHOUT EVEN WATER
– I would prefer to commit suicide instead of even thinking about doing this. I
respect their capacities and the religion a lot. In fact one of my best friends
is Jain. But again I fail to understand their version of fasting too. I mean
it’s like punishment and we do not have food scarcity. Why should I punish my
body and my senses so much? Alright I know to control the senses and all. But
is it necessary and what’s the ROI? I simply don’t want to control any of my
senses except anger. And sometimes I don’t mind being angry too. After all, the
King and the Pawns all go to the same box after the play.
Even my mother and sister are obsessed with
fasting. They say fasting will please god. I say what about “Ana Devta”? Would
not he be angry if you don’t eat anything? I think he will be. So I always eat
on time and please him a lot. After all I am his devotee all my life and can
eat as much and as many times to please him.
But this fasting really works who has faith. For
me it never worked as there’s no faith. Hence I would like to have a measuring
system to know how do this fasts actually works. I know many have fulfilled
their wishes through severe fastings. But I am not sure whether their wishes
were fulfilled by fasting or the Law of Attraction? When you want something
from all the deepness of your heart, everything on earth help you in getting
it. As said by Paulo Coelho in Alchemist and Shah Rukh Khan in Om Shanti Om and
also proved by the scientist who believes in Law of Attraction.
To know the actual working system behind this is
difficult. But everyone has their own version of belief – some say the fasting
had pleased god and hence their wish was fulfilled, I say it’s the Law of
attraction. Whatever it may be, “Eat and let everyone eat”. By all the blessing
of almighty my husband also believes in same. I am spared in short.
Android and iOS are sprinting for the first position. If I were
asked what to choose between the two, the quick answer comes as iOS products. However,
today the line between Android and iOS is rapidly blurring. With success of
Samsung Galaxy S4 brand identity of Android is growing. It is also necessary to
know that Android and iOS are not the only players, but they are definitely
dominant in the mobile space. Android is most commonly used smartphone with
many different mobile brands and on the flipside iOS is only used on Apple
devices. The market share in the US is much closer whereas in other countries
like India, Android dominates the market.
