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The Ramayana

Still by those laws shall he abide Which lives of youthful Bráhmans guide, Obedient to the strictest rule That forms the young ascetic's school: And all the wondering world shall hear Of his stern life and penance drear; His care to nurse the holy fire And do the bidding of his sire.†
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Then to the Gods who came to take Their proper share the hermit spake: "For you has Dasaratha slain The votive steed, a son to gain; Stern penance-rites the king has tried, And in firm faith on you relied, And now with undiminished care A second rite would fain prepare.†
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who rules the giant race, Torments us in his senseless pride, And penance-loving saints beside.†
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"King Dasaratha," thus cried they, "Fervent in penance many a day, The sacrificial steed has slain, Longing for sons, but all in vain.†
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He gained by penance long and dire The favour of the mighty Sire.†
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Thou, holy Sage, in days of old Among the royal saints enrolled, Didst, penance-glorified, within The Bráhman caste high station win.†
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Embodied love of penance drear, Among the wise without a peer.†
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(152) There was a sacred hermitage Where saints devout of mind Their lives through many a lengthened age To penance had resigned†
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Here Scripture-talking elders sway Each sense with firm control, And penance-rites have washed away All sin from every soul.†
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With penance' far-discerning eye The saintly men beheld Their coming, and with transport high Each holy bosom swelled.†
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Invest him with the power which naught But penance gains and holy thought, Those heavenly arms on him bestow To thee entrusted long ago By great Krisásva best of kings, Son of the Lord of living things.†
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u whom the Gods adore, For holy thought and rites austere Of penance made his dwelling here.†
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There lived a sage called Chúli then, Devoutest of the sons of men; His days in penance rites he spent, A glorious saint, most continent.†
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I long, O Saint, to see a son By force of holy penance won.†
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With his two queens afar he went, And weary days in penance spent, Fervent, upon Himálaya's hill Where springs the stream called Bhrigu' rill.†
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To him, his child and worthy heir, The king resigned his kingdom's care, And on Himálaya's pleasant side His task austere of penance plied.†
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There, many lengthening seasons through, The wildered river ran: Bhagírath saw it, and anew His penance dire began.†
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there remain But ten short years of toil and pain; These years of penance soon will flee, And a new brother thou shalt see.†
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When Satánanda saw the pair Of youthful princes seated there, He turned him to the holy man Who sate at ease, and thus began: "And didst thou, mighty Sage, in truth Show clearly to this royal youth My mother, glorious far and wide, Whom penance-rites have sanctified?†
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Far to Himálaya's side he fled, Which bards and Nágas visited, And, Mahádeva's(231) grace to earn, He gave his life to penance stern.†
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There, fruit and roots his only food, He practised penance, sense-subdued, And in that solitary spot Four virtuous sons the king begot: Havishyand, from the offering named, And Madhushyand, for sweetness famed, Mahárath, chariot-borne in fight, And Dri?†
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A thousand years had passed away, When Brahmá, Sire whom all obey, Addressed in pleasant words like these Him rich in long austerities: "Thou by the penance, Kusik's son, A place 'mid royal saints hast won.†
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Pleased with thy constant penance, we This lofty rank assign to thee.†
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Burning with rage, o'erwhelmed with grief, Thus in his heart exclaimed the chief: "No fruit, I ween, have I secured By strictest penance long endured, If Gods and all the saints decree To make but royal saint of me."†
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Sons of my guide, to each of you With lowly reverence here I sue; To each, intent on penance-vow, O Bráhmans, low my head I bow, And pray you each with ready heart In my great rite to bear a part, That in the body I may rise And dwell with Gods within the skies.†
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For other aid I turn from you: So, rich in penance, Saints, adieu!†
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Alone, unyielding to dismay, Though burnt by anguish night and day, Great Visvámitra's side he sought, Whose treasures were by penance bought.†
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Then red with rage his eyeballs blazed: The sacred ladle high he raised, And cried to King Ikshváku's son: "Behold my power, by penance won: Now by the might my merits lend, Ikshváku's child, to heaven ascend.†
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By penance-power and holy lore, Like Him who framed the worlds of yore, Seven other saints he fixed on high To star with light the southern sky.†
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The saint, in glory's light arrayed, In Pushkar's wood his dwelling made, And living there on roots and fruit Did penance stern and resolute.†
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Then to the monarch's speech replied The hermit, penance-glorified: "For countless kine, for hills of gold, Mine eldest son shall ne'er be sold."†
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But Visvámitra, more intent, His mind to sterner penance bent.†
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Still northward to the distant side Of Kausikí(244), the hermit hide, And gave his life to penance there With rites austere most hard to bear.†
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Thus, till a thousand years had fled, He plied his task of penance dread.†
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A Bráhman then, in glory strong, Mighty through penance stern and long, Shall free thee from thine altered shape; Thou from my curse shalt then escape.†
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My very breath henceforth I hold Until a thousand years are told: Victorious o'er each erring sense, I'll dry my frame with abstinence, Until by penance duly done A Bráhman's rank be bought and won.†
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Visvámitra's Triumph Then from Himálaya's heights of snow, The glorious saint prepared to go, And dwelling in the distant east His penance and his toil increased.†
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So when the weary years were o'er, Freed from his vow so stern and sore, The hermit, all his penance sped, Sate down to eat his meal of bread.†
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A Bráhman's rank thy penance stern And ceaseless labour richly earn.†
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Successful in his high pursuit, The sage, in penance resolute, Walked in his pilgrim wanderings o'er The whole broad land from shore to shore.†
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Best of all hermits, Prince, is he; In him incarnate Penance see.†
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Thy holy labours wrought of old, And mighty penance, fully told, Ráma and I with great delight Have heard, O glorious Anchorite.†
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At last by long-wrought penance I Won favour with the Gods on high, Who with my labours well content A four-fold host to aid me sent.†
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But Arjun stooped to treachery vile And slew my noble sire by guile, Whose penance awful strength had gained, Whose hand the God-given bow retained.†
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Then to Mahendra's hill I turned Strong in the strength that penance earned, And toiled upon his lofty head By Gods immortal visited.†
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But thy great power to wander free, Which penance-rites have won for thee, Or glorious worlds from thee to wrest, Is the firm purpose of my breast, And Vish?†
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My mansions of eternal joy, By penance won, thou mayst destroy, My path to these thy shaft may stay.†
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The wondrous arrow flew, And Jamadagni's offspring knew Those glorious worlds to him were barred, Once gained by penance long and hard.†
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Hope, anger must be cast aside, To penance every thought applied: No fear must be of things to fear: Hence is the wood for ever drear.†
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Thou must not here thy wife forsake, And to the wood thy journey make, Whether stern penance, grief, and care, Or rule or heaven await thee there.†
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Definition:

self-punishment, prayer, or other action to make up for wrong-doing

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a religious practice (often called confession) involving confession, forgiveness, and atonement