Buddha-carita, or Life of Buddha by Ven. Aśvaghoṣa

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Buddha-carita, or Life of Buddha - 154 85. And because the intellect rested there, not proceeding any further, – it became very subtil, and there was no such thing as un-named nor as named. 86. But because, even when it has reached this goal it yet returns again to the world, therefore the Bodhisattva, seeking something beyond, left Udraka. 87. Having quitted his hermitage, fully resolved in his purpose, and seeking final bliss, he next visited the hermitage, called a city, of the royal sage Gaya. 88. Then on the pure bank of the Nairañjanā the saint whose every effort was pure fixed his dwelling, bent as he was on a lonely habitation. (Then he saw five mendicants who had come there before him; they had taken vows on themselves and practised austerities, vaunting themselves of control of the five senses.) 89. Five mendicants, desiring liberation, came up to him when they beheld him there, just as the objects of the senses come up to a percipient who has gained wealth and health by his previous merit. 90. Being honoured by these disciples who were dwelling in that family, as they bowed reverently with their bodies bent low in humility, as the mind is honoured by the restless senses,
Buddha-carita, or Life of Buddha - 155 91. And thinking, ‘this may be the means of abolishing birth and death,’ he at once commenced a series of difficult austerities by fasting. 92. For six years, vainly trying to attain merit, he practised selfmortification, performing many rules of abstinence, hard for a man to carry out. 93. At the hours for eating, he, longing to cross the world whose farther shore is so difficult to reach, broke his vow with single jujube fruits, sesame seeds, and rice. 94. But the emaciation which was produced in his body by that asceticism, became positive fatness through the splendour which invested him. 95. Though thin, yet with his glory and his beauty unimpaired, he caused gladness to other eyes, as the autumnal moon in the beginning of her bright fortnight gladdens the lotuses. 96. Having only skin and bone remaining, with his fat, flesh and blood entirely wasted, yet, though diminished, he still shone with undiminished grandeur like the ocean. 97. Then the seer, having his body evidently emaciated to no purpose in a cruel self-mortification; – dreading continued existence, thus reflected in his longing to become a Buddha:
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