Mark 2: 18-22 FASTING
EXPLANATION
Fasting means not simply avoiding the food by force even though the fire of hunger is burning in the stomach. Real fasting means to be immersed in the thoughts and love of God (theoretical devotion) so that you are not feeling the sense of hunger as your attention is totally diverted to God. We observe this fact even when we see a cinema with totally absorbed concentration. Fasting becomes spontaneous and natural when the interest on God is in the climax. This fasting should not be misunderstood with the present style of fasting in which hunger is forcibly resisted. The theoretical devotion appears in the absence of the human incarnation that was served by practical devotion (real sacrifice and practical service) only during its life period. In the absence of human incarnation in this world, only theoretical devotion is possible by which fasting (absorption in the love of God) can take place. When the human incarnation exists, there is no need of theoretical devotion (fasting) since only practical devotion exists.
The old weak cloth is not sewed by a patch of new strong cloth. By this, the old cloth is spoiled more. This means that the people of old generation are already rigid by their long following of ignorant concepts and traditions. Such rigid people can’t be modified through revolutionary concepts that result as the fruits of sharp analysis with various branches of logic. They cannot digest any change in their blind rigid concepts. Only people with scientific analysis and open mind can accept the change of a concept through the fire test of intensive analysis. The closed mind with rigid ignorance represents the old cloth and the patch of new cloth represents a revolutionary concept that is concluded by long, sharp and deep logical analysis.
EXPLANATION
Fasting means not simply avoiding the food by force even though the fire of hunger is burning in the stomach. Real fasting means to be immersed in the thoughts and love of God (theoretical devotion) so that you are not feeling the sense of hunger as your attention is totally diverted to God. We observe this fact even when we see a cinema with totally absorbed concentration. Fasting becomes spontaneous and natural when the interest on God is in the climax. This fasting should not be misunderstood with the present style of fasting in which hunger is forcibly resisted. The theoretical devotion appears in the absence of the human incarnation that was served by practical devotion (real sacrifice and practical service) only during its life period. In the absence of human incarnation in this world, only theoretical devotion is possible by which fasting (absorption in the love of God) can take place. When the human incarnation exists, there is no need of theoretical devotion (fasting) since only practical devotion exists.
The old weak cloth is not sewed by a patch of new strong cloth. By this, the old cloth is spoiled more. This means that the people of old generation are already rigid by their long following of ignorant concepts and traditions. Such rigid people can’t be modified through revolutionary concepts that result as the fruits of sharp analysis with various branches of logic. They cannot digest any change in their blind rigid concepts. Only people with scientific analysis and open mind can accept the change of a concept through the fire test of intensive analysis. The closed mind with rigid ignorance represents the old cloth and the patch of new cloth represents a revolutionary concept that is concluded by long, sharp and deep logical analysis.
