Manu Smriti - Hindu Online

6.70. Three suppressions of the breath even, performed according to the rule, and accompanied with the
(recitation of the) Vyahritis and of the syllable Om, one must know to be the highest (form of) austerity for
every Brahmana.
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6.71. For as the impurities of metallic ores, melted in the blast (of a furnace), are consumed, even so the taints
of the organs are destroyed through the suppression of the breath.
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6.72. Let him destroy the taints through suppressions of the breath, (the production of) sin by fixed attention, all
sensual attachments by restraining (his senses and organs), and all qualities that are not lordly by meditation.
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6.73. Let him recognise by the practice of meditation the progress of the individual soul through beings of
various kinds, (a progress) hard to understand for unregenerate men.
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6.74. He who possesses the true insight (into the nature of the world), is not fettered by his deeds; but he who is
destitute of that insight, is drawn into the circle of births and deaths.
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6.75. By not injuring any creatures, by detaching the senses (from objects of enjoyment), by the rites prescribed
in the Veda, and by rigorously practising austerities, (men) gain that state (even) in this (world).
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6.76 Let him quit this dwelling, composed of the five elements, where the bones are the beams, which is held
together by tendons (instead of cords), where the flesh and the blood are the mortar,
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6.77. which is thatched with the skin, which is foul-smelling, filled with urine and ordure, infested by old age
and sorrow, the seat of disease, harassed by pain, gloomy with passion, and perishable.
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6.78. He who leaves this body, (be it by necessity) as a tree (that is torn from) the river-bank, or (freely) like a
bird (that) quits a tree, is freed from the misery (of this world, dreadful like) a shark.
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6.79. Making over (the merit of his own) good actions to his friends and (the guilt of) his evil deeds to his
enemies, he attains the eternal Brahman by the practice of meditation.
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