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Disregarding slights difficult to bear, the Sage wandered about.
For more than a couple of years he led a religious life without using cold water; he realised singleness, guarded his body, had got intuition, and was calm.
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Throughly knowing the earth-bodies and water-bodies and firebodies and wind bodies, the lichens, seeds, and sprouts, he comprehended that they are, if narrowly inspected, imbued with life, and avoided to injure them; he, the Great Hero.
He did not use what had expressly been prepared for him; he well saw (that bondage comes) through action. Whatever is sinful, the Venerable One left that undone he consumed clean food.
He sometimes lodged in workshops, assembling places, wells or shops; sometimes in manufactories or under a shed of straw.
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He sometimes lodged in travellers' halls, garden houses, or towns; sometimes on burying ground, in relinquished houses, or at the foot of
a tree.
In these places was the wise Sramana for thirteen long years; he meditated day and night, exerting himself, undisturbed, strenuously.
The Venerable One, exerting himself, did not seek sleep for the sake of pleasure; he waked up himself, and slept only a little, free from desires.
Waking up again, the Venerable One lay down, exerting himself; going outside for once in a night, he walked about for an hour.
In his resting places he sustained fearful and manifold calamities; crawling or flying animals attack him.
Bad people, the guard of the village, or lance-bearers attack him; or there were domestic temptations, single women or men.......
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Always well controlled, he bore the different sorts of feelings; overcoming carelessness and pleasure, the Brahmana wandered about, speaking but little.
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