A Project Report On: Fasting As Penance

A PROJECT REPORT ON

FASTING AS PENANCE

Presented by:

Baljinder Singh Computer Faculty

Govt. High School Gehri Mandi, Amritsar

Fasting as Penance

BY M. K Gandhi

A Brief Summary of Fasting Mahatma Gandhi as had Penance set up a new kind

of

school at Tolstoy Farm in South Africa. He felt that spiritual training was an essential part of the education of the youngsters. To develop the spirit is to build character. It means working towards a knowledge of the spirit. The exercise of the spirit depended on the character of the teacher. The teacher must be spirituality upright . Only then could he give spiritual training to his students.

Mahatma Gandhi was against any type of physical punishment. Once he had to deal with an in disciplined boy. Gandhi felt very angry with the boy. He hit the boy with a ruler. But his hand trembled. The boy cried and begged forgiveness. Gandhi felt sorry for behaving in a violent manner. Gandhi decided never to give physical punishment to any student. He decided to reform them through the power of spirit.

One day, a teacher told him about the behavior

of

some

students.

He

advised

Mahatma Gandhi not to let his sons mix with those bad boys. But Gandhi refused to do so. He did not want to give special treatment to his sons. He did not want to forsake the other students. The other students were equally dear to him. They had been entrusted to him by their parents. Gandhi did not want to betray the trust reposed in him.

Gandhi’s Method of spiritual training was self penance. So when he discovered his students committing some wrong, Gandhi undertook penance. Once, he decided to have only one meal a day as penance for four and a half-months. His penance pained the guilty students. They became aware of the pain they caused to Gandhi ji. This realization was the first necessary step in the moral and spiritual training of the students.

The theme of this lesson is to depict the personality of a Themethat of “FASTING AS PENANCE” teacher affects the behaviour of his students greatly. Students learn a lot from the ways and means of their teacher. The teacher is responsible for moulding their charcter. Gandhi ji narrates his personal experience in this matter. He was against corporal punishment. He said that a teacher can never bring healthy improvements in the conduct of his

He believed that some sort of spiritual training should be imparted to students in order to build up their moral character. Gandhi ji strongly believed if there is true respect in the heart of the student only then fast undertaken by the teacher is meaningful; otherwise it is useless. His own motto was “Example is better than

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