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* All relations terminate in separation while all accumulations end in their destruction. Having seen this, one should never take anything upon oneself.
* All relations terminate in separation while all accumulations end in their destruction. Having seen this, one should never take anything upon oneself.
* There is no task left on this earth for the one who sees the elements endowed with qualities as prone to destruction and understands the essence of creation and destruction.
* There is no task left on this earth for the one who sees the elements endowed with qualities as prone to destruction and understands the essence of creation and destruction.
* All beings be they big or small aquatic creatures, movable or immovable being on the land, strong birds flying in the sky or even lustrous stars in the sky, all of them see a fall and are tied by the fetters of death. Therefore, knowing the essence of life, being grateful and perceiving them all equally one should sleep happily.<ref name=":0" />
* All beings be they big or small aquatic creatures, movable or immovable being on the land, strong birds flying in the sky or even lustrous stars in the sky, all of them see a fall and are tied by the fetters of death. Therefore, knowing the essence of life, being grateful and perceiving them all equally one should sleep happily.
Basic necessities
Elaborating on the approach to the daily basic needs of life like food and shelter in the Ajagara mode of life, the brahmana says,
* By fortune, when lots of food becomes available, I ate more, if I obtain just a morsel, I am satisfied with that and if I dont get anything, then for days together I sleep without food and water. There are times when people feed me with food endowed with a variety of qualities. While sometimes there is less food, even lesser than the less sometimes and sometimes nothing at all. Sometimes I eat kernels of rice, sometimes of sesame, while sometimes I get to fill my stomach with food prepared of the Aghani rice. Therefore, I always get all types of food, good and bad.
* Sometimes I sleep on a cot, sometimes on the earth while sometimes I get endowed with the mattresses used in royal palaces.
* Sometimes I wear tattered clothes or bark garments, sometimes it is made of silk and sometimes of animal skin and sometimes I even wear costly garments.
* Therefore, by chance, if I obtain comething that can be enjoyed within the framework of dharma, then I dont show aversion to it. If not, then I dont wish to enjoy even the most rarest of things obtained.<ref name=":0" />
== References ==
== References ==