Verse 11

⁷The forest dweller should make the offerings the season calls for with forest cakes and boiled grain, and should not worship me with an animal after the manner of the Veda-rite. ⁸The fire offering, the new moon rite and the full moon rite, as before; and the four-month rites, which those who know the Veda hand down for the sage. ⁹By austerity carried through in this way the sage grows so thin that his veins stand out; and having worshipped me, whose substance is austerity, he comes from the world of the sages to me. ¹⁰But one who would harness this great austerity, carried through with such hardship and leading to the highest good, to some small desire: who is a bigger fool than he?

¹¹When he can no longer keep the rule, and old age has set him shaking, he should take the fires up into himself, and with his thought on me enter the fire.