The Purana Index v3.c9.464

v3.c9.464

Yogi—(Siddha) he who has practised brahmacarya, ahiṃsa, satya, non-stealing, and aparigraha and cultivated a sense of detachment,¹ is superior to all for he performs tapas for a hundred years standing on one foot and living on air,² dharmaśāsanam of ahiṃsaka, walking on good roads drinking clean and filtered water and speaking truthful words, after serving his guru for a year goes about begging alms,³ gets the dharana and tries to avoid the upasargas, must understand the seven suksmas, mahusūksma, āpa, tejas, vāyu, vyoma, manas and buddhi sūkṣma, and the condition of these before these elements attain the sthūlabhāva, all of them inter-dependent,⁴ always intent on Prāṇāyama becomes one with the great being,⁵ the best to be fed on the occasion of the Śrāddha, superior to the feeding of a thousand householders, a hundred vānaprasthas and a thousand Brahmacārins⁶