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endowed with infinite' attribotos like omniscience, infinite this, Infinite power and inite conation. 1. He had abandoned all his belongings and also
had aband föngings for them. He had arrived at I decision after" mature thought and deliberation with' his own Self: "I do not belong to other objects por do other objects belong to me; nothing is mine. Due to nescience and infatuation, I have been: misleading myself with false notions that this body is mine, I am the son, he is my father, she is my mother, this is my palace, these are my belongings etc; but truth, has unravelled reality. Now I clearly understand after deep thought and keen observation that not an iota of matter is mine. I am the ocean of bliss". Saint's Life
Thus determined he pulled off his hair from his head. This penance is called 'Keshalocha'. This is in consonance with the sacred vow of Ahimsa and dependence on one's own self. The ascetic is not required to beg for money for shaving If he keeps long hair, small insects will be born and they will be killed inadvertently, when they will move about the head and thus they will disturb the concentration of mind and cause distraction. He had resolved to control his mind, body and speech. He had taken a vow of complete silence, till the acquisition of omniscience, for in fact silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves. He had taken a vow of non-injury and feelipg of
