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quires complete celebacy and conquest of the sexual desire. The eighth is that stage of life which engagements like commerce, agriculture, service etc are capletly abdndoned. The next The ninth stage is reached when a
Stages man gives up the ten external appensummarised dages such as wealth, corn, cattle etc and keeps the mind unruffled.
The tenth stage requires a man to be free from interfering with and consenting to occupations, marriages etc. The final stage of a layman is that in which he leaves home altogether, goes to some ascetic from whom he takes vows, lives by mendicacy, donns a very small piece of cloth only and practices Tapas all the time. A man rising to a higher stage must rise by each successive stage along the march and nust keep all the practices of each stage below.
Tapas is twelvefold; [1] Fasting [ 2 ] Eating Tapas less than a full meal [ 3 ]fixing dinners [ 4 ] omitting some Ras [ ghee etc ] from
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