Is Meditation The Only Way ??

[The Universe]

1 hour ago, Prabhaker said:

Many methods have to be used to remain alert, because whenever you are fasting you cannot fall asleep easily. The body energy is completely free -- there is no need to digest anything. The free energy moves all over the body. It is no longer concentrated in the stomach. In fact it is available, so your mind goes on functioning: you remain alert. Sleep is difficult. Fasting is a way to create awareness. If you fast for a long time, you will attain to a certain awareness which is difficult to attain while you go on eating. It can be attained, but it will take a longer time. Fasting is a shortcut to achieve it.

Many people who fast have completely forgotten the goal. The goal was awareness. Now they keeps on doing the means, using the means, not knowing the goal. They simply suffer. So the fasting is no longer a fasting; it is just a starvation.

To fast is to try to discover in hunger the other dimension. Fasting means an effort to move into the desire of hunger and to come to know that; the divine. That's why fasting became so important in so many religions. It can give you a glimpse.

Fasting also creates chemical changes. After the seventh or eighth day of fasting, one feels tremendously jubilant, weightless, very glad for no reason, delighted - as if all burden has disappeared. Your body is creating a certain chemical change.

It's like thé dark room retreat but for another sensation. I can't try that because my parents would freak out if I do that but i'll see...time will tell

[Prabhaker]

4 minutes ago, The Universe said:

I can't try that because my parents would freak out if I do

You can skip you dinner once a week , don't start with longer duration fasting. 

Edited April 6, 2017 by Prabhaker

[The Universe]

@Prabhaker we have family dinner but hey ! I'll try to fast when i'll be older i guess...