Fasting
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Stations · Xerophagies · abstinence · fast · fasting · fasts · the chastening of diet · the fast · upavāsa
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De ieiunio adversus psychicos
The disciplinary practice of abstaining from food, defended by Tertullian as a divinely sanctioned spiritual duty.
Even if from John the Paraclete had fallen silent, we should ourselves have stood forth as prophets to ourselves for this cause above all—not now, I say, for entreating the wrath of God, nor for obtaining His protection or grace, but for fortifying through our very selves the condition of the last times, proclaiming all "lowliness of mind," since the prison must be learned by heart, and hunger and …
" And so for the rest, fasting is to be done indifferently, by choice and not by command, according to a new discipline, to suit the times and occasions of each man.
This principal species in the chastening of diet can now prejudge also concerning the interior workings of abstinence, that they too are useful or necessary in their measure.
Āṅgirasa Smṛti
Upavāsa (fasting), both a defined concept (abstention from cooked food and enjoyments) and a prescribed remedy for ritual faults.
Abstention from cooked foods, along with the observance of virtues, // Ang_1.
on that day there should be a fast (*upavāsaḥ* (उपवासः)), and the *śrāddha* (श्राद्ध) should be redone on the next day.
is to be known as a fast (*upavāsaḥ* (उपवासः)), devoid of all enjoyments.