Being embodied, your intelligent self considered the world to be pervaded by Mahadeva; and then for propitiating that god you emaciated your body by the observance of hard vows.
स भवान् देववत् प्राज्ञो ज्ञात्वा भवमयं जगत्। अवाकर्षस्त्वमात्मानं नियमैस्तत्प्रियेप्सया॥