By living on barely you are capable of practicing penances. The life-breath is the great deity which lives in the bodies of all embodied creatures.'
प्राणधारणमात्रेण शक्यं कर्तुं तपस्त्वया। प्राणो हि परमो धर्मः स्थितो देहेषु देहिनाम्॥