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## Chapter Nine: Praise for the Endurance of Cold and Bites
**818.** In a windless, waterless, sun-scorched forest, devoid of shade and filled with dry, fallen leaves, where the heat generated by internal austerities like fasting burns intensely, and the scorching heat of fire, harsh wind, and sun dries the throat and palate, one who has experienced many remedies for this heat but does not contemplate them, whose mind is focused on alleviating the suffering of beings, and who maintains their vows, is praised for their endurance of heat.
**819.** The term "bite-inflicting insects" is used as a general term. Just as the term "crow" in the phrase "Protect the ghee from crows" is used to represent all harmful creatures, so too, the term "bite-inflicting insects" includes biting insects, flies, fleas, gnats, bedbugs, beetles, ants, scorpions, and so on. One who endures the pain inflicted by these creatures without seeking any remedy, who does not harm them in thought, word, or deed, and whose only aspiration is to attain liberation, is praised for their endurance of the pain inflicted by bite-inflicting insects.
**820.** One who embodies the pure, unblemished nature of a child, whose attainment is impossible to request, who is free from the vices of begging, protecting, and harming, who is free from possessions and whose sole means of attaining liberation is non-attachment, whose mind is free from fluctuations and distractions, who visualizes women as extremely impure and repulsive, who maintains unbroken celibacy day and night, and who observes the vow of non-possession without any fault, is to be understood as having attained the perfect vow of non-possession.
**821.** One who is restrained and indifferent to the objects of the senses, who avoids music, dance, and musical instruments, who dwells in the roots of trees, crossroads, and rocky places, and who, when snow falls and a cold wind blows, does not desire any remedy but remains content, who does not remember the remedies for cold that they have experienced in the past, and who dwells in the storehouse of knowledge and contemplation, is worthy of praise for their endurance of the pain of cold.