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 OR THE HUNDRED VERSES ON RENUNCIATION 55

'93. O mother Lakshmi (Goddess of wealth*^ serve ( thou ) some one else, do not be longing for me. Those who desire enjoyment are subject to thee, but what art thou to us who are free from desires? Now we wish to live upon food articles obtained from begging and placed, (conformably to its) being; sanctified, in a receptacle of Palasha leaves pieced to- gether on the spot.

��94. The earfh is his high bed, the arms his ample pillow, the sky is his canopy, the genial breeze his fan, the autumnal moon is his lamp, and rejoicing in the company of abnegation as his wife, the sage lies down happily and peacefully, like a monarch of undiminibhed glory.

��95. There lives the real ascetic who feeds ITirns'elf "on ahus, utiattaclied to the society

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