In Yoke

Those who eat too much or eat too little, who sleep too much or sleep too little, will not succeed in meditation. But those who are temperate in eating and sleeping, work and recreation, will come to the end of sorrow through meditation. - Bhagavad Gita Easwaran tells this story: Once, when the Buddha was told that one of his disciples was having trouble, he went to the young man's room to see what the problem was. This young man had been born in a rich family, and he had been trained in music, so he still kept his vina - an instrument something like a guitar - in the corner of his room. When the Buddha entered, he saw the vina and said, "Let me see if I can play your vina ." The disciple reluctantly brought it forward. He didn't know that the Buddha had been an expert musician. The Buddha tightened the strings of the vina until they were about to break. The disciple protested, "You are not supposed to tighten the strings like that, Blessed One; they will br