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Desde entonces, durante casi seis años, Gautama practicó severas austeridades, que se registran en sus propias palabras en el ''Majjhima Nikāya'': | Desde entonces, durante casi seis años, Gautama practicó severas austeridades, que se registran en sus propias palabras en el ''Majjhima Nikāya'': | ||
<blockquote>Debido a tan | <blockquote>Debido a tan mala alimentación, todas mis extremidades se hicieron como enredaderas marchitas con articulaciones anudadas;... las pupilas de mis ojos se veían hundidas en sus órbitas así como el agua que parece brillar en el fondo de un pozo profundo;... la piel de mi abdomen se adhirió a mi columna vertebral...<ref>''Enciclopedia Británica'', 15a ed., S.v. "Buda".</ref></blockquote> | ||
As a consequence of these severe bodily mortifications, Gautama became so weak that he once fainted and was believed to be dead. Some accounts describe how he was found collapsed by a shepherd boy who restored him with drops of warm milk. Others say it was the devas, or gods, who revived him. Realizing the futility of asceticism, Gautama abandoned his austerities to seek his own path of enlightenment—whereupon his five companions rejected and deserted him. | As a consequence of these severe bodily mortifications, Gautama became so weak that he once fainted and was believed to be dead. Some accounts describe how he was found collapsed by a shepherd boy who restored him with drops of warm milk. Others say it was the devas, or gods, who revived him. Realizing the futility of asceticism, Gautama abandoned his austerities to seek his own path of enlightenment—whereupon his five companions rejected and deserted him. | ||