A hot bath I cry, as I sit down in it Again as I lie flat, a hot bath How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.
Quotes about austerities (10 Quotes)
You may chant and meditate, practice austerities and self-restraint, and dwell at sacred shrines of pilgrimage you may give donations to charity, and perform good deeds, but without the True One, what is the use of it all
To have ability for eating when dishes are ready at hand, to be robust and virile in the company of one's religiously wedded wife, and to have a mind for making charity when one is prosperous are the fruits of no ordinary austerities.
Serenity, simplicity, gravity, self-control and purity of thought are the austerities of the mind.
A devotee, who spends his time in austerities has nothing to worry about as God fulfills all his needs.
Those who practice severe austerities without following the scriptures, with hypocrisy and egotism, impelled by lust, and attachment Senselessly torturing the elements in their body and also Me who dwell within the body know these ignorant persons to be of demonic nature.
That companion speedily conducts the man who is devoted to duty and effaces his sins by austerities, to the next world, radiant and clothed with an ethereal body.
Religious austerities should be practiced alone, study by two, and singing by three. A journey should be undertaken by four, agriculture by five, and war by many together.
If the factory people outside the colleges live under the discipline of narrow means, the people inside live under almost every other kind of discipline except that of narrow means -- from the fruity austerities of learning, through the iron rations of English gentlemanhood, down to the modest disadvantages of occupying cold stone buildings without central heating and having to cross two or three quadrangles to take a bath.
Keeping his hair, nails, and beard clipped, subduing his passions by austerities, wearing white garments and , keeping himself pure, he shall be always engaged in studying the Veda and , such acts as are conducive to his welfare.