“Three meals a day is for common people, two meals a day is for warriors, and one meal a day is for sages”
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Reads as a folk/monastic saying on fasting; no Gandhi primary and no reliable source ties it to him. Only popularity/tags link it to Gandhi; treat as an unsourced attribution.
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The scale here maps appetite to purpose: the more a person aims at mastery over themselves, the less they need to feed. Cutting back becomes a way to keep the body light and the will in charge, so hunger stops running the day and attention frees up for harder, quieter work.
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- A monk eats one simple meal and finds his mind steadier through long hours of study.
- An athlete trims late-night snacking and wakes clear-headed for dawn training.
- Someone fasting one day a week notices how rarely real hunger, not habit, drives them to eat.