Since last Wednesday, many people around the world, both Christians as well as some non-Christians, decided to give up a bad habit for the period of forty days and forty nights known as Lent. The symbolism behind Lent is that Jesus traveled the desert for forty days and forty nights and did not succumb to temptations of the Devil. Traditionally, Lent is performed through fasting and by other methods of atonement. In the modern-day Lent, people generally give up vices such as drinking alcohol or eating certain foods (i.e. meats, fish, eggs etc.). I like this idea of self-discipline because it is so similar to the Raj Yogic and even to the Bhakti Yogic aspects of Hinduism.
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