16.THE REACTION OF DESIRES SPARE NONE.

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The picture of a true ascetic is brought out here:-


One may be having none of the elaborate comforts of life, and having renounced everything, including minimum necessities of life, one may come to live with no shelter, and with scarcely any food. Even such an individual may, to fight the inclemency's of weather, resort to warming up, on cloudy wintry days, near the fire. And in the clear and bright daytime he may back himself in the warmth of the sun. When at night the fire goes out, he may bend himself upon himself and, with his chin held tight to his own knees, spend rest of  the time of the cold night. He may not keep himself any possession--not even a begging bowl. He may accept what is given unto him in his own palm. For shelter he may choose to be under any wayside tree.


Thus, an individual may come to leave even the utter necessities of life and, for all practical purposes, may look a real man of renunciation, and yet , says Swami Sankaracharya  in the 16th verse, we find that : "the chords of desire never leave him."    

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