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विपुलविलसल्लज्जाबल्ली वितानकुठारिका |
22. The pit of our stomach so hard to fill is the root indeed of no small undoing: it is ingenious in severing the vital knots, as it were, of our fond self-respect ; it is like the bright moonlight shining on the lotus (that species which blooms only in the sun) of highly estimable virtues; it is the hatchet that hews down the luxuriant creepers of our great modesty.
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पुण्ये ग्रामे वने वा महति सितपटच्छन्नपालि कपालि |
23. For the sake of filling the cavity of the stomach when hungry, a man of self-respect would wander from door to door with an earthen begging bowl (in hand) having its edge covered with white cloth, away in extensive woodlands or holy places, the outskirts of which are grey all over with the smoke of sacrificial fires tended by Brahmanas versed in ritualistic niceties, and thus preserve the pranas, rather than live (like) a beggar from day to day among those who are Socially one's equals.
[It should be remembered that living on alms for a man of true renunciation is held in high esteem in India.
