Fasting for six days, he who takes only one meal every seventh day and pours libations on the sacred fire every day, for a full year, controlling speech all the while and observing the vow of celibacy and abstaining from the use of flowers and unguents and honey and meat, acquires the region of the Maruts and of Indra. Crowned with the fruition of every wish as it originates in the mind, he is waited upon and adored by celestial ladies.
दिवसे सप्तमे यस्तु प्राश्नीयादेकभोजनम्॥ सदा द्वादशमासान् वै जुह्वानो जातवेदसम्। सरस्वती गोपयानो ब्रह्मचर्ये समाचरन्॥ सुमनोवर्णकं चैव मधुमासं च वर्जयन्। पुरुषो मरुतां लोकमिन्द्रलोकं च गच्छति॥