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 This threefold austerity, performed by men with the utmost faith, without desire for fruit, harmonised, is said to be pure.

The austerity which is practised with the object of gaining respect, honour and worship, and for ostentation, is said to be of passion, unstable and fleeting.

That austerity done under a deluded understanding, with self-torture, or with the object of destroying another, that is declared of darkness.