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1. After having passed through the first three orders and annihilated passion, he must offer an oblation to Pra g âpati, in which he bestows all his wealth (upon priests) as fee for the performance of the sacrifice, and enter the order of ascetics.
2. Having reposited the fires in his own mind, he must enter the village, in order to collect alms, (but never for any other purpose).
3. He must beg food at seven houses.
4. If he does not get food (at one house), he must not grieve.
5, He must not beg of another ascetic.
6. When the servants have had their meal, when the dishes have been removed, let him beg food (consisting of the leavings).
7. (He must receive the food) in an earthen vessel, or in a wooden bowl, or in a vessel made of the bottle-gourd.
8. He must cleanse those vessels with water.
9. He must shun food obtained by humble salutation.
10. He must live in an empty house.
11. Or (he must) live at the root of a tree.
12. He must not stay for more than one night in one village (except during the rainy season).
13. His only dress must be a small piece of cloth worn over the privities.
14. He must set down his feet purified by looking down.
15. He must drink water purified (by straining it) with a cloth.
16. He must utter speeches purified by truth.
17. He must perform acts purified by his mind.
18. He must neither wish for death nor for (a long) life.
19. He must bear abuse patiently.
20. He must treat no one with contempt.
21. He must not pronounce a benediction.
22. He must not salute any one reverentially.
23. Should one man chop his one arm with an axe, and another sprinkle his other arm with sandal, he must neither curse the one in his mind, nor bless the other.
24. He must constantly be intent upon stopping his breath, upon retention of the image formed in his mind, and upon meditation.
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25. He must reflect upon the transitoriness of the passage through mundane existence;
26. And upon the impure nature of the body;
27. And upon the destruction of beauty by old age;
28. And upon the pain arising from diseases bodily, mental, or due to an excess (of the bile, &c.)
29. And upon (the pain arising from) the (five) naturally inherent (affections).
30. On his having to dwell in an embryo, covered with everlasting darkness;
31. And on (his having to dwell) between urine and fæces;
32. On his having to suffer, (as an embryo,) pain from the cold and hot. (food and drink, which his mother happens to have taken);
33. On the dreadful pain which he has to suffer, at the time of his birth, while the embryo is coming forth from the narrowness of the womb;
34. On his ignorance and his dependency upon his (parents and other) Gurus in childhood;
35. On the manifold anxieties arising from the study of the Veda (and from the other obligations of a student);
36. And (on the anxieties arising) in youth from not obtaining the objects of pleasure, and upon the abode in bell (ordained as punishment) for enjoying them, after they have been obtained unlawfully;
37. On the union with those whom we hate, and the separation from those whom we love;
38. On the fearful agonies of hell;
39. And (on the agonies) that have to be suffered in the passage of the soul through the bodies of animals (and of plants).
The Insitutes of Vishnu CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED
Divisions 2696-2730
