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Yoga guru Baba Ramdev, who continued his fast against corruption for the sixth day on Thursday, has agreed to take lemon juice and honey in the evening, but may be force-fed glucose, a senior district official said here.
“He is not going to break his fast. I have asked him to take lemon juice and honey and he has complied. He will take it in the evening,” R. Meenakshi Sundaram, District Magistrate of Haridwar, told IANS over phone.
“His condition has worsened. So, we requested him,” he added.
My Take:
With lemon and honey, his fast is broken.
If I starve for one day, I would pass out and if for two days, I would die; having said that I do not subscribe to anybody dieing due to fasting.
While on that subject, it is interesting to note that apart from Mahatmaji who fasted many times, in Indian History, there are two true Satyagrahis who in fact fasted-unto-death:
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potti_Sreeramulu Potti Sreeramulu fasted in the heart of Madras (Chennai) city for over 82 days for an Andhra state with Madras as the capital – and died on 15 December (i.e. early 16 December 1952).
The reasons as to why the Rajaji government, Union government led by Nehru or police did not intervene to force feed or shift him to a hospital remain unclear. It is interesting to note that only one person before him in modern Indian history Jatin Das actually fasted to death; all the others either gave up or were arrested and force fed or hospitalised.
Jatindra Nath Das (also known as Jatin Das) (27 October 1904 – 13 September 1929) was an Indian freedom fighter and revolutionary. The death of Jatin Das in Lahore jail after 63 days of hunger strike shocked the whole of India. Jatin Das is the only person to fast to death before independence, Potti Sreeramulu fasted to death for a separate Andhra after independence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jatin_Das
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