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Bhagavad Gita
Śhraddhā Traya Vibhāga Yoga (17.18)
The austerity that is practised in order to gain respect, honour, and reverence, and for ostentation, is said to be of the nature of rajas. Its result is uncertain and transitory.
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka II, Khanda 23 (2)
Austerity the second, and to dwell as a Brahmakârin in the house of a tutor, always mortifying the body in the house of a tutor, is the third. All...
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brahmana 2 (1.2.6)
He desired: * Let me sacrifice further with a greater sacrifice (yajna)V He toitured himself. He practised austerity. When he had tortured himself...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka VIII, Khanda 5 (1)
What people call sacrifice (yagña), that is really abstinence (brahmakarya). For he who knows, obtains that (world of Brahman, which others obtain by...
Dhammapada
Chapter VIII: The Thousands (108)
Whatever a man sacrifice in this world as an offering or as an oblation for a whole year in order to gain merit, the whole of it is not worth a...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XII: The True Gnostic Is Beneficent, Continent, and Despises Worldly Things. (6)
There are things practised in a vulgar style by some people, such as control over pleasures. For as, among the heathen, there are those who, from the...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka VIII, Khanda 5 (2)
What people call sacrifice (sattrâyana), that is really abstinence, for by abstinence he obtains from the Sat (the true), the safety (trâna) of the...
Dhammapada
Chapter XXII: The Downward Course (311)
As a grass-blade, if badly grasped, cuts the arm, badly-practised asceticism leads to hell.
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka VIII, Khanda 8 (5)
They deck out the body of the dead with perfumes, flowers, and fine raiment by way of ornament, and think they will thus conquer that world .
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka VIII, Khanda 5 (3)
What people call fasting (anâsakâyana), that is really abstinence, for that Self does not perish (na nasyati), which we find out by abstinence. What...
The Alchemy of Happiness
The Love of God (19)
The reason Bayazid indicated this method of cure for want of relish in devotion was that his friend was an ambitious seeker after place and honour....