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Dwelling in solitude, eating but little, with speech, body and mind subdued, always engaged in meditation and concentration, resorting to dispassion.

living in solitude, eating lightly, controlling speech, body and mind, always devoted to the yoga of meditation, taking refuge in dispassion,

The list continues. Such a person seeks solitude, eats lightly, controls speech, body and mind, is always devoted to the yoga of meditation, and rests in dispassion (vairāgya). This describes a life of simplicity and inner focus. Some readers see it as a description of a renunciant, others as a set of inner attitudes that a person in active life can also cultivate. Both see it as the discipline that ripens the earlier practice of selfless action.