"The ascetic that has attained indifference (to objects), should stay in one and the same place in the rainy season (for four months), and then for (the remaining) eight months should wander alone. Then also the ascetic should not stay in one and the same place for more than a day. Like a deer that does not stay in one place on account of fear, he should not stay in one place. He should not create an attraction (in his mind) that may serve as an obstacle to his going about. He should not cross a stream (by swimming) with his hand, nor ascend a tree, nor witness the festival of a God, nor partake of regal food, nor do the external worship of God. Having discarded all things other than the Self, he should be with his body emaciated by taking food (from each house) like the bees (from each flower). He should not increase the fat (in the body); he should discard ghee like blood. Regarding such royal food as flesh, sandal-coating, etc., as offal, the different tastes as the degraded caste, the cloth as a defiled vessel, the oil-bath as sexual union, the gladdening of a friend as urine, desires as cow's flesh, the country known to him as the outcastes’ place, gold and women as cobra or deadly poison, the place of assembly as the burning ground, the capital of the town as the hell called Kumbhīpāka, and royal food as balls of rice offered to the dead, he should be without any worship of God other than the Self; and having given up all the actions of the world and his own country, and ever thinking of the bliss of his Self like the bliss arising from the discovery of a lost object, forgetting his country and the
Chapters
- Thirty Minor Upanishads: Title Page
- Thirty Minor Upanishads: Contents
- Thirty Minor Upanishads: Foreword
- Thirty Minor Upanishads: 1. Mukṭikopanisha&...
- Thirty Minor Upanishads: 2. Sarvasāra-Upanisha&a...
- Thirty Minor Upanishads: 3. Nirālamba-Upanisha&a...
- Thirty Minor Upanishads: 4. Maiṭreya-Upanisha&a...
- Thirty Minor Upanishads: 5. Kaivalya-Upanishaḍ ...
- Thirty Minor Upanishads: 6. Amṛṭabin&...
- Thirty Minor Upanishads: 7. Āṭmabo&...
- Thirty Minor Upanishads: 8. Skanḍa-Upanisha&...
- Thirty Minor Upanishads: 9. Paiṅgala-Upanisha&a...
- Thirty Minor Upanishads: 10. Aḍhyā&...
- Thirty Minor Upanishads: 11. Subala-Upanishaḍ o...
- Thirty Minor Upanishads: 12. Ṭejobinḍ...
- Thirty Minor Upanishads: 13. Brahmopanishaḍ of ...
- Thirty Minor Upanishads: 14. Vajrasūchi-Upanisha...
- Thirty Minor Upanishads: 15. Śār&#2...
- Thirty Minor Upanishads: 16. Garbha-Upanishaḍ o...
- Thirty Minor Upanishads: 17. Ṭāras&...
- Thirty Minor Upanishads: 18. Nārāya&...
- Thirty Minor Upanishads: 19. Kalisanṭā...
- Thirty Minor Upanishads: 20. Bhikshuka-Upanisha&#7693...
- Thirty Minor Upanishads: 21. Naraḍaparivr&#...
- Thirty Minor Upanishads: 22. Śā&#77...
- Thirty Minor Upanishads: 23. Yogaṭaṭ&...
- Thirty Minor Upanishads: 24. Ḍhyānabin...
- Thirty Minor Upanishads: 25. Hamsa-Upanishaḍ of...
- Thirty Minor Upanishads: 26. Amṛṭan&a...
- Thirty Minor Upanishads: 27. Varāha-Upanisha&...
- Thirty Minor Upanishads: 28. Maṇdalabr&#257...
- Thirty Minor Upanishads: 29. Nāḍabin&a...
- Thirty Minor Upanishads: 30. Yogakuṇdal&#29...
- Thirty Minor Upanishads: Index of Proper Names
- Errata
Thirty Minor Upanishads: 21. Naraḍaparivrājaka...