शीतोष्णसुखदुःखेषु समः सङ्गविवर्जितः ॥ १८ ॥
तुल्यनिन्दास्तुतिमौनी सन्तुष्टो येनकेनचित् ।
अनिकेत: स्थिरमतिर्भक्तिमान्मे प्रियो नर: ॥ १९ ॥
samaḥ śatrau ca mitre ca tathā mānāvamānayoḥ .
śītoṣṇasukhaduḥkheṣu samaḥ saṅgavivarjitaḥ .. 18 ..
tulyanindāstutimaunī santuṣṭo yenakenacit .
aniketa: sthiramatirbhaktimānme priyo nara: .. 19 ..
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He has no attachment for objects of any kind. He is content with the bare means of bodily sustenance. It is said (in the Mahābhārata):
‘Who is clad with anything, who is fed on any food, who lies down anywhere, him the Gods call a brahmana. (Śānti-parva, Mokṣa-Dhrma, 245-12)
He has no fixed abode, he is ‘houseless’ as has been said in another smriti. His thought is fixed steadily on the Supreme Reality.
The enumeration, which was commenced in xii. 13, of the various attributes of the samnyasins—to the worshippers the Akṣara who are constantly devoted to the knowledge of the Supreme Reality—is concluded as follows :