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537. A child plays with his toys for- getting hunger and bodily pains; exactly so the man of realisation takes pleasure in the Reality, without ideas of ' I' or 'mine,' and is happy.

538. Men of realisation have their food without anxiety or humiliation, by beg- ging, and their drink from the water of rivers; they live freely and independently, and sleep without fear in cremation grounds or forests; their clothing may be the quarters themselves, which need no washing and drying, or any bark, etc. ; the earth is their bed; they roam in the ave- nue of Vedanta; while their pastime is in the Supreme Brahman.

" This is a splendid setting forth of the free life ot a true Sannyasin.

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