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Aug 31, 2019 Neha Tandon rated it it was amazing

Lately have become very interested in knowing Gandhiji from his life he led when he was not doing freedom movements.

It is a book when Phoneix Settlement/ Tolystoy Farm/ Satyagraha Ashram were established and what were the principles followed. It describes how fasting has a spiritual meaning, what is Truth, why should we pray. I was deeply moved to know the meaning of fasting. According to Gandhiji, if a person follows untruth, he and the worker in charge would fast to purify the mind. Now you w Lately have become very interested in knowing Gandhiji from his life he led when he was not doing freedom movements.

It is a book when Phoneix Settlement/ Tolystoy Farm/ Satyagraha Ashram were established and what were the principles followed. It describes how fasting has a spiritual meaning, what is Truth, why should we pray. I was deeply moved to know the meaning of fasting. According to Gandhiji, if a person follows untruth, he and the worker in charge would fast to purify the mind. Now you would think how can torturing yourself can purify your mind. But his thinking is, food gives us the power to think, and if some corrupt thought has overpowered your brain, fasting can be a means to an end. This is what I understood, I am open for correction.

Again, some of the principles every Indian Student learns about Gandhiji can be found being practiced with sincerity in the ashram - Non stealing, bramhcharya, ahimsa etc. Ashramites also used to pray to God. They had prayer session 430 in morning/evening, prayers were fixed it is included in another book called - Ashram Bhajanavali.

On questioning the presence of God, Gandhiji said, "Fundamentally God is indescribable in words. We mortals must of necessity depend upon the imagination which makes us. Prarthana means to ask for something in the spirit of humility.... My ignorance is my salvation. It is enough that I know my God and although I have to still realize His living presence, I am on the right path to my destination.. It made me rethink of my own rejections of the presence of some higher power.

Another excerpt on prayer says :

In heartfelt prayer the worshipper's attention is concentrated on the object of worship so much so that he is not conscious of anything else besides. The worshipper has well been compared to a lover. The lover forgets the whole world and even himself in the presence of the beloved. The identification of the worshipper with God should be closer still. It comes only after much striving, self-suffering (tapas) and self-discipline. In a place which such a worshipper sanctifies by his presence, no inducements need be offered to people for attending prayers, as they are drawn to the house of prayer by the force of his devotion

I believe fasting and prayer made a huge difference, I have incorporated both into my life and I am grateful I came across this book. ...more

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