Amrit Chintan : Pujya Gurudev

                            Follow the Middle Path

                       =Pt.ShriRam Sharma Acharya

People undertaking the Sadhana of self-refinement normally make it a regimen of self-torture. This makes their life miserable. The seeking of God takes the form of denial of the world; and as a result, ruthless mortification of the body is mistakenly considered as spiritual Sadhana. This negativity is the result of misinterpreting God-realization as the denial of worldly life. 

The truth is that the torturer of the flesh gets more attached to the body. People literally negating the physical world are tied up with it subtly somewhere or the other. The experience shows that negation of the world binds a person more than the materialistic attitude.
Sadhana is not the opposition of the world or the body. It is neither unbridled indulgences in sensual pleasures nor their forcible suppression. Sadhana is conscious self-control and self-refinement. It is finding the middle path between the two extremes. 

Going to the extremes leads to ruining of the self. The middle path is life. Excess is ignorance; it is darkness; it is destruction. One who knows this truth abandons both the extremes. By doing so he is relieved of all the tension. This in turn leads to a natural and simple life of nobility.  As soon as the self-control is achieved, life becomes peaceful and burdenless. One who follows this middle path leads a happy, healthy and fulfilling life. 

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              Forget the past, be vigilant of the present, and await the bright future.

Thanks GOD, Thanks Sadguru,

Shiv Sharma