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Who does not enlogize the vow of celibacy which barns down all faults, as a lamp does moths, which like the moon alleviates agonies and which like the ocean produces the jewels of virtue ?
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Every moment one should be attentive in observing the row of celibacy which, like the sun shining with full lustre, destroys the entire darkness of calamities and which, like the wish-yielding tree, gives the desired objects.
... 43 Those high-minded persons intent upon observing the vow of celibacy, to whom Indra, the lord of the gods, humble with pure devotion, bows down, while taking his seat on the throne, are always victorious in the Earth.
3. When the vow of celibacy, which leads to life of highly auspicious state, shines forth, the sacred Mantras fructify, the fame spreads over the Earth and even the gods honour the chaste persons with their paesence.
