Properly studying thus to the best of his power, in the way described above, and likewise living as a Brahmacharin, one who performs the duties of his own order, endued with learning, observant of penances, and with all the senses under control, devoted to what is agreeable and beneficial to the preceptor, steady in practising the duty of truth, and always pure, should, with the permission of the preceptor, eat his food without decrying it. He should eat Havishya made from what is got in alms, and should stand, sit, and take exercise (as directed).

He should pour libations on the fire twice a day, having purified himself and with concentrated mind. He should always carry a staff made of Bilva or Palasha.

The raiment's of the twice-born man should be linen, or of cotton, or dear-skin, or a cloth that is entirely brown-red.

There should also be a girdle made of Munja-grass. He should bear maited locks on head, and should perform his ablutions daily. He should bear the sacred thread, study the scriptures, divest himself of cupidity, and be steady in the observance of vows.

He should also satisfy the celestials with oblations of pure water, his mind being controlled the while, Such a Brahmacharin is worthy of being lauded.

With vital seed drawn up and mind concentrated, one who is thus devoted, succeeds in conquering the celestial region. Having attained to the Highest seat, he has not to return to birth.

Cleansed by all purificatory rites and having lived as a Brahmacharin, one should next go out of his village and next live as an ascetic in the forest, having cast off (all attachments).

Clad in animal skins or barks of trees, he should perform his ablutions morning and evening. Always living within the forest, he should never return to an inhabited placc.

Honouring guests when they come, he should give them shelter, and himself live upon fruits and leaves and common roots, and Shyamaka.

He should, without being idle, live on such water as he gets, and air, and all forest products. He should live upon these, in due order, according to the regulations of his initiation.

He should honour the guest that comes to him with alms of fruits and roots. He should then, without idleness, always give whatever other food he may have.

Controlling speech the while, he should eat after satisfying celestials and guests. His mind should be shorn of envy. He should eat little, and depend always on the celestials.

Self-controlled, practising universal mercy, and endued with forgiveness, he should wear both beard and hair. Celebrating sacrifices and devoting himself to the study of the scriptures, he should be steady in the observance of the duty of truth.

With body always in a state of purity, gifted with cleverness, ever living in the forest, with concentrated mind, and senses, in subjection, a hermit, thus devoting himself, would conquer the celestial region.

A houscholder, or Brahmacharin, or forestrecluse, who would wise to acquire Liberation, should have recourses to that which has been called the best course of conduct.

Having granted to all creatures the pledge of utter abstention from harm, he should renounce all action, he should contribute to the happiness of all creatures, practise universal friendliness, govern all his senses, and be an ascetic.

Living upon food got without asking and without trouble, and that has come to him spontaneously, he should make a fire. He should go for alins to a place whence smoke has ceased to curl up and where all the inhabitants have already eaten.

The person who is conversant with the conduct that leads to Liberation should seek for alms after the vessels (used in coO king) have been washed. He should never rejoice when he gets anything, and never lose heart if he gets nothing.

Seeking just what is necessary for supporting life, he should, with concentrated mind, go about for alms, waiting for the proper time. He should not wish for carnings in common with others, nor eat when honoured.

The mendicant should conceal himself for avoiding gifts with honour. While eating, he should not eat the resident of another's dish, nor such food as is bitter, or astringent, or pungent.

He should not also eat such kinds of food as have a sweet taste. He should eat only so inuch as is necessary to keep him alive.

The person conversant with Liberation should obtain his livelihood without obstructing any creature. In his rounds of mendicancy he should never follow another. He should never show his piety; he should move about in a solitary place, freed from passion. As should, resort to either an empty house, or a forest, or the foot of some tree, or a river, or a mountain cave for shelter. In summer he should pass only one night in an inhabited place; in the rainy season he may live in one place.

He should move about the world like a worm, having his path pointed out by the Sun. From mercy for creatures, he should walk on the Earth with his eyes directed towards it.

He should never amass riches and should avoid living with friends. The man knowing Liberation should every day do all his acts with pure water.

Such a man should always perform his ablutions with water that has been taken (from the river or tank). Abstention from harm, celibacy, truth, simplicity, freedom, from anger, freedom from decrying others, selfcontrol and habitual freedom from back-biting; with senses controlled, he should steadily pursue these eight vows.

He should always practise a sinless mode of conduct, which is not deceptive or crooked. Shorn of attachments he should always make one who comes as a guest eat (at least) a morsel of food.

He should cat just enough for livelihood, the maintenance of life. He should eat only such food as has been got by fair means, and should not pursue the dictates of desire.

He should never accept any other thing than food and clothing only. He should, again, accept only as much as he can cat and nothing more.

He should not be induced to accept gifts from others, nor should he make gifts to others. Owing to the helplessness of creatures, the wise man should always share with others.

He should not misappropriate others belongings, nor should he take anything without being asked. He should not, having enjoyed anything, become so attached to it as to seek for it once more.

One should take only earth, water, pebbles, leaves, flowers, and fruits, which are not owned by any body, as they come, when one wishes to do any act.

One should not live by the occupation of an artisan, nor should he covet gold. One should not hate, nor teach; nor should one have any belongings.

One should eat only what is consecrated by faith, One should shun controversies. One should follow the nectarine course of conduct. One should never be attached to anything, and should never enter into relations of intimacy with any creature.

One should not perform, nor cause to perform, any such deed as involves expectation of fruit or destruction of life or the hoarding of riches or articles.

Rejecting all objects, content with a very little, one should move about (homeless), pursuing an equal conduct towards all creatures mobile and immobile.

One should never annoy another being; nor should one be annoyed with another. He who is trusted by all crcatures is considered as the foremost of those persons who understand Liberation.

One should not think of the past nor feel anxious about the future. One should disregard the present, biding time, with fixed mind.

One should never defile anything by eye, mind, or speech. Nor should one do anything which is wrong, openly or in secret.

Withdrawing his senses like the tortoise withdrawing its limbs, one should govern his senses and mind, cultivate a thoroughly peaceful understanding, and seek to master every subject.

Freed from all pairs of opposites, never bending his head in respect, abstaining from the rites requiring the utterance of Svaha, one should be free from mineness, and egoism. with purified soul, one should never seek to acquire what one has not and protect what one has.

Free from expectations shorn of qualities, endued with tranquility, one should be free from all attachments and should depend on one. Attached to one's Own self and understanding all subjects, one becomes, forsooth, liberated.

Those who perceive the self, which is without hands and feet and back which is without head and without stomach, which is free from the action of all qualities, which is absolute, untainted, and stable, which is without smell, without taste and touch, without colour, and without sound, which is to be comprehended (by close study), which is unattached, which is without flesh, which is free from anxiety, unfading, and divine, and lastly which though living in a house resides in all creatures, succeed in escaping death.

There the understanding reaches not nor the senses, nor the celestials, nor the Vedas nor sacrifices, nor the regions (of superior bliss), nor penance nor vows.

The attainment to it by those who are endued with knowledge is said to be without comprehension of symbol. Hence the man who knows the properties of that which is shorn of symbols, should practise the truths of piety.

The learned man, living as a householder, should adopt that conduct which is conformable to true knowledge. Though undeluded, he should practise piety like one that is deluded, without finding fault without it.

Without finding fault with the practices of the good, he should act in such a way for practising piety as may induce other to always disregard him.

That man who is gifted with such a conduct is said to be the foremost of ascetics. The senses, the objects of the senses, the (five) great elements, mind, understanding, egoism, the unmanifest. Purusha also, after comprehending these duly with the help of correct inferences, one attains to the celestial region, released from all fetters. One conversant with the truth, understanding these at the time of the termination of his life, should mediate, exclusively resting on one point. Then, depending on none, none, one acquires Liberation. Freed from all attachments, like the wind in space, with his hoarded up means exhausted, without distress of any sort, he attains to the highest goal.