Those individuals, whether men or celestials, who are shorn of cupidity and malice and who emaciate or afflict their bodies by the practice of austerities succeed, on account of the virtle which they thus acquire, to attain to great happiness.
मनुष्या यदि वा देवाः शरीरमुपताप्य वै। धर्मिणः सुखमेधन्ते लोभद्वेषविवर्जिताः॥