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” – 11^th 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.