Whatever
you perform yourself spiritually is mainly for the purpose of make
changes in yourselves. Means the reaction of your activity should be
from your inner being not from your outer environment. Your spiritual
activities should make changes on inner-you. Each and every spiritual
office should result in specific change on your inner being. To happen
so, you should not focus on social
environment for rewards and appreciations; let them learn from you, it
should be so. Why? Let us examine these verses.
16 “And when
you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they disfigure
their faces that their fasting may be seen by others. Truly, I say to
you, they have received their reward. 17 But when you fast, anoint your
head and wash your face, 18 that your fasting may not be seen by others
but by your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret
will reward you.
What do we do when we fast? We starve our
senses to disappear the objects of senses from us. What purpose for?
Close to God and to be away from material world. When we starve our
senses we became away from the world to certain extend and
proportionally close to (fast) the Supreme power. So, if we desire
appreciation or any other kind of reward from the part of world, what is
the use of fasting? Does it make any effect on the spiritual plane,
which is secrete or invisible? So when you fast, make it a personal
affair and secrete so that it can make tremendous change on your
spiritual plane. If it so, when you starve your senses, not only the
object of senses disappear from you but the yearning for them also
disappear and become close with The Supreme. Otherwise, when you fast,
beholding God, the yearning for the object of those senses gradually
disappear.
The soul disciplined by true fasting, moving among
sense objects with the senses weaned from likes and dislikes and brought
under the control of spirit, attain peace of mind.
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