Fasting
is the cause of awakening man. The heart becomes tender and the
spirituality of man increases. This is produced by the fact that man's
thoughts will be confined to the commemoration of God, and through this
awakening and stimulation surely ideal advancements follow... Fasting is
of two kinds, material and spiritual. The material fasting is
abstaining from food or drink, that is, from the appetites
of the body. But spiritual, ideal fasting is this, that man abstain
from selfish passions, from negligence and from satanic animal traits.
Therefore, material fasting is a token of the spiritual fasting. That
is: `O God! As I am fasting from the appetites of the body and not
occupied with eating and drinking, even so purify and make holy my heart
and my life from aught else save Thy Love, and protect and preserve my
soul from self-passions... Thus may the spirit associate with the
Fragrances of Holiness and fast from everything else save Thy mention.Friday, March 9, 2012
Fasting is the cause of ....
Fasting
is the cause of awakening man. The heart becomes tender and the
spirituality of man increases. This is produced by the fact that man's
thoughts will be confined to the commemoration of God, and through this
awakening and stimulation surely ideal advancements follow... Fasting is
of two kinds, material and spiritual. The material fasting is
abstaining from food or drink, that is, from the appetites
of the body. But spiritual, ideal fasting is this, that man abstain
from selfish passions, from negligence and from satanic animal traits.
Therefore, material fasting is a token of the spiritual fasting. That
is: `O God! As I am fasting from the appetites of the body and not
occupied with eating and drinking, even so purify and make holy my heart
and my life from aught else save Thy Love, and protect and preserve my
soul from self-passions... Thus may the spirit associate with the
Fragrances of Holiness and fast from everything else save Thy mention.
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