Performing ritualistic worships, making offerings to the gods, performing worship of many kinds, living life in penance and Strict discipline, making charity;
Roaming in deserts, water bodies mountains, places of pilgrimage and wasteland, giving up life while approaching the snow clad summits of Himalaya;
Performing recitation of Vedas, singing in modes to the accompaniment of musical instruments, practicing obstinate exercises of Yoga, and indulging in millions of contemplations of Yogic discipline;
Abstaining the senses from vices and trying other obstinate practices of Yoga, all this is sacrificed by a Guru-conscious person over the company of saintly persons and the refuge of the True Guru. All these practices are trivial and inane. (255)