He continued to live in the forest, performing penances, But he never took himself for one who had acquired any merit by his acts. During the rains he slept under the open sky. In auturnn he sat in water.
वने तपस्यतिष्ठत् स न च धर्ममवैक्षत। वर्षास्वाकाशशायी च हेमन्तं जलसंश्रयः॥