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javert on May 5, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Science of Fasting

I'm a normal person, which I think is morally better than being an ascetic, but I only eat once a day.

drieddust on May 5, 2022 [–]

What makes you think you have to leave for jungle to be an ascetic? You are an ascetic by all means if you have control over your senses. At least Hinduism defines it that way.

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