Markandeyapurana 41.23

41.23

sarvamātmamayaṃ yasya sadasajjagadīdṛśam /
guṇāguṇamayantasya kaḥ priyaḥ ko nṛpāpriyaḥ //

Honesty and sanctity, self-sacrifice, and uncovetousness, and harmlessness are the five principal religious obligations of mendicants. Freedom from anger, reverence towards gurus, purity, abstemiousness in food, and constant study of the Vedas—these are the five well-known observances. He should devote himself to essential knowledge, which can effect his objects; for the multiplicity of knowledge that exists here is a hindrance to religious meditation. He who acts with the thirst, that he ought to know this and he ought to know that, may perhaps never gain that knowledge in thousands of ages. Discarding associations, subduing anger, eating sparingly, and controlling his organs, he should regulate the gates of his body by the intellect, and apply the understanding to profound contemplation. The yogi who is constantly occupied with religious meditation should always have due recourse to profound contemplation, in empty places and in caves and in forests. Control over the speech, control over the actions, and control over the mind, are the three controls: he who invariably possesses these controls is a great ‘three-control’ ascetic. Who, O king, is agreeable, and who is disagreeable to him to whom all this universe, both real and unreal, and composed of good qualities and had qualities, is composed of the Supreme Soul ?