Skip YOUR meal for a STRANGER, once a week

60+ year old Anna Hazare skipped all meals in a week for the nation's health.
Can't you skip one a week for your own health?

Donate your meal to someone you don't know, once a week.
Feel fulfilled, though not fully filled.

Do the following, once a week:

• (You or your spouse) Cook at home as if you are going to eat.
• Find someone you don't know who needs food.
• Pick from a nearby temple, public facility, or traffic intersection.
• Invite him/her and serve the food yourself. Alternatively, pack and hand over the food yourself.
• While fasting, drink water regularly, and a fruit juice just once. No solids.

Please leave a comment here, every time you have done this.  Don't donate money or yesterday's food!

Benefits:

• Physical: Fasting once a week cleanses the body of toxins. Recommended for good health.
• Physical: Great weight-loss program. The middle-classes are eating more than they need.
• Vital: Redirects praanic energy normally spent in digestion for better use; keeps you sharper & energetic
• Moral: Anna daanam (Food donation) to a needy person is the best of all charities.
• Emotional: Daanam becomes tapo yajna (sacrifice) only when you feel the pinch of it. 
• Emotional: You will feel fulfilled instead of just filled.
• Social: Practice of brotherhood. Expands your circle of "mine" to include others. Earns goodwill and influence in community.
• Social: Alleviates the organized begging mafia problem rampant in cities today.
• Spiritual: Helps practice mastery over lower impulses - Yama, niyama.
• Spiritual: Daridra Narayana seva, for those who believe in such things.