"Fasting is useful, when mind co-operates with starving body. that is to say, when it cultivates a distaste for the objects that are denied to the body. Mind is at the root of all sensuality. ...
Brahmacharya means control of the senses in thought, word and deed. ... An aspirant after Brahmacharya will always be conscious of his shortcomings, will seek out the passions lingering in the innermost recesses of his heart and will incessantly strife to get rid of them. ...
'The sense-objects turn away from an abstemious soul, leaving the relish behind. The relish also disappears with the realization of the Highest.' (Gita II, 59)"
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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