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used to going without food and sleep for days. So, having no food or sleep may not have been a great hardship when he entered the woods.
I believe that his real problem in the initial stages must have been to face ego. As a rich prince whose every wish was once at his command, it must have been intensely humbling to go to someone's door, half naked, and beg as a mendicant. Overcoming ego and having to ask people to spare some food must have been his true devils."
I joined in to support Sudharma's argument. "Remember how Bhagwan repeatedly tells us that our passions (kashayas) such as ego, Our passions such as ego, fanger, hatred, deceit, lust, and anger, hatred, deceit, lust, attachments, are our true enemies. and attachments, are our true enemies. Overcome
Overcome these, and the road to these, and the road to moksha is open. The essence of our enlightenment is open.
daily sadhana is to practice austerities so that we slowly eliminate our passions and our bodily demands.
It is a common experience that, when one is truly absorbed in his work, one forgets to eat or drink. Vir Vardhaman was totally absorbed in his search for Reality. It was his singular focus, his singular goal. It was so important to him that food, sleep, and pain or pleasures did not concern him. His conscience was oblivious to the physical demands of his body. Vardhaman certainly endured many hardships during those 12 years, but his fully focused mind was probably unaware of external happenings. External events may not have even entered his conscience."
By now, our newest monk, Ganadhar Prabhas, had also joined our discussion. I remember him as a Vedic scholar who firmly believed that
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