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27. He may eat, ..by placing the food in his hands.
31. On (being seized) by some incurable disease and the like, he should, facing north-east (sara) and maintaining himself only on water and air, established firmly in yogic contemplation, move steadily onwards till the body falls down. This mode of dying, termed mahaprasthāna, is the one enjoined in the Scriptures. Therefore, it is forbidden to die in contravention of the prescribed form !
33. Having lived for some years in the third (vānaprastha) aśrama, when a quarter of the duration of life remains to be spent, he should renounce all things and enter sannyāsa.
39. He who, giving the gift of fearlessness to all kinds of moving or unmoving living beings, enters from the grihasta into the sannyāsa aśramı ... reaches high heavens !
40. The twice-born soul (from whom living beings do not experience the least fear) ceases to fear any one on the dissolution of its physical body !
41. He who has renounced home, who carries a stick, a (beggar's) bowl etc., who observes the vow of silence, and who is indifferent to the delicacies of taste in what is given to him as food, enters sannyāsa.
42, Salvation is attained individually, that is, only when one has given up all company : for this reason one should move about alone for bhiksha (obtaining food)!
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