History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c46.39

v3.c46.39

The Paramahaṁsas always stay under a tree or in an uninhabited house or in a burial place and either wear a garment or are naked; they are beyond the pairs of dharma and adharma, truth and falsehood, purity and impurity. They treat all alike, they regard all as the Self, to them a clod of earth or gold is the same and they beg alms from persons of all varṇas. The description in the Bhikṣukopaniṣad is almost in the same words