THE MIDDLE PATH:

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prof laxmi narain (prof_narain)

 

Source and courtesy: Sri Ramana Kendram, Hyderabad

This article was published in Sri Ramana Jyothi,

monthly magazine of the Kendram.

 

THE MIDDLE PATH: One day the Buddha was sitting under a tree,

practising severe austerities. A group of singers passed by singing: "

O singer, don't draw the strings of your lute too tightly lest they

break; don't slack them so much that they will not make music. The

Buddha instantly realized that his body was like a stringed instrument.

By severe self-denial he was defeating his purpose. The same would be

the result if he over indulged himself. He understood that he must keep

to the middle path. – Swami Muktananda