Fasting
This Month's Reflection on Healing
Dear friends,
In the Christian churches it is the time of preparing Easter. Forty days of repentance, reflection and purification. Often people fast these days. That is the reason I send you herewith some words of Hazrat Inayat Khan concerning fasting:
Coming to the question of fasting, I think that fasting is one of the ways by which the denseness of the body can be diminished. And when one knows the right way of fasting, when one is under the direction of someone who really knows when a person should fast, and why and how he should do so, and how he could gain the benefit of his fasting, then great benefit can be obtained by it. Surgeons keep a person without food for so many hours or days knowing that it will help them to heal quicker. In the same way spiritual teachers may prescribe a fast to their pupils: sometimes being without cereals, sometimes without eating meat, sometimes without bread, sometimes living on milk, on fruits, and sometimes for a certain limit of time, without anything. They see the capacity of the pupil: what he can endure and how he can be benefited by a particular fast.
There is always a meaning if a teacher prescribes a fast; he has a reason for it.
(From: The art of being; page 39)
It is important not to eat too much before a spiritual healing ceremony. In these days we could pay special attention to this.
Kind regards from Sattva and Kafia
