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SANNYASA DHARMA
and the cravings of hunger and thirst are overpowering, he engages himself in holy meditation, going over in his mind the amount of food and water which he has taken in the course of the infinity of lives through which he has passed, in the infinity of time that is known as the past. If the quantity that has been absorbed by him thus far has not produced satiety or satisfaction, it is not likely that what he could take now in the shape of food and drink would do so either! Thus, by dwelling upon his undisciplined past, and comparing the horrors of the different grades of life, through which he has passed as an incarnating ego, with the advantages arising from self-discipline, he is soon enabled to destroy the longings of the fleshly nature ; and under the instruc. tion of the holy acharya, who is at all times watchful over his great undertaking and ever ready to dispel disturbing agitation, with the ambrosia of sweet discourse, speedily overcomes all forms of distractions.
With reference to attending to the bodily. comforts and needs, there are three kinds of the pandita death which the saint aspires to attain. These are :(1) the prāyopagamana, which precludes at
tending to bodily needs and comforts
altogether, (2) the ingini marana, that admits of one's at
tending on one's self, but forbids receiya ing help or assistance from another, and
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