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is no harm to him. But happiness is only to be found
in abstaining from things besides them, from superfluous
and fatiguing actions. Worship God, him alone, and
venerate him ; approach him in the place of worship
with presents like perfumes and flowers; praise him
and attach your heart to him so that it never leaves
him. Give alms to the Brahmans and to others, and
vow to God vows—special ones, like the abstaining
from meat; general ones, like fasting. Vow to him ani¬
mals which you must not hold to be something different
from yourselves, so as to feel entitled to kill them.
Know that he is everything. Therefore, whatever you
do, let it be for his sake ; and if you enjoy anything of
the vanities of the world, do not forget him in your
intentions. If you aim at the fear of God and the
faculty of worshipping him, thereby you will obtain
liberation, not by anything else,' "

The book Gitd says : " He who mortifies his lust does
not go beyond the necessary wants ; and he who is
content with that which is sufficient for the sustaining
of life will not be ashamed nor be despised,"

The same book says: " If man is not without wants
as regards the demands of human nature, if he wants
nourishment to appease thereby the heat of hunger and
exhaustion, sleep in order to meet the injurious influ¬
ences of fatiguing motions aud a couch to rest upon,
let the latter be clean and smooth, everywhere equally
high above the ground and sufficiently large that he
may stretch out his body upon it. Let him have a
place of temperate climate, not hurtful by cold nor by
heat, and where he is safe against the approach of
reptiles. All this helps him to sharpen the functions
of his heart, that he may without any interruption con¬
centrate his cogitation on the unity. For all things
besides the necessities of life in the way of eating and
clothing are pleasures of a kind which, in reality, are
disguised pains,    P^o acquiesce in them is impossible.