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270 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
V. Rules as to Food —contd.
Vanaprastha Sannyasi
quantity of his food) in the bright (half of the month) and (increasing it) in the dark (half); or he may eat on the last days of each fortnight once (a day only), boiled barley-gruel.”
VI. 21 “Or he may constantly subsist on flowers, roots, and fruit alone, which have been ripened by time and have fallen spontaneously, following the rule of the (Institutes) of Vikhanas.”
VI. 22 “Let him either roll about on the ground, or stand during the day on tiptoe, (or) let him alternately stand and sit down; going at the Savanas (at sunrise, at midday, and at sunset) to water in the forest (in order to bathe).
VI. Duties to be performed
Vanaprastha Sannyasi
VI. 5 “Let him offer those five great sacrifices according to the rule, with various kinds of pure food fit for ascetics, or with herbs, roots, and fruit.”
VI. 7 “Let him perform the Balioffering with such food as he eats’, and give alms according to his ability; let him honour those who come to his hermitage with alms consisting of water, roots, and fruit.”
VI. 8 “Let him be always industrious in privately reciting the Veda; let him be patient of hardships, friendly (towards all), of collected mind, ever liberal and never a receiver of gifts,
VI. 65 “By deep meditation let him recognize the subtle nature of the Supreme Soul, and its presence in all organisms, both the highest and the lowest.”
VI. 83 “Let him constantly recite (those texts) of the Veda which refer to the sacrifice (those) refering to the deities and (those) which treat of the soul and are contained in the concluding portions of the Veda (Vedanta).”