The Buddha-Carita or The Life of Buddha by Ven. Aśvaghoṣa

Buddha-carita, or The Life of Buddha - 152
iti vākyamida śrutvā munestasya npātmajaḥ |
abhyupāya ca papraccha padameva ca naiṣṭhikam || 12.43
43. The prince, having heard this discourse from the seer, asked concerning the means
and the final state.
brahmacaryamida carya yathā yāvacca yatra ca |
dharmasyāsya ca paryata bhavān vyākhyātumarhati || 12.44
44. ‘Wilt thou please to explain to me how, how far, and where this life of sacred study
is to be led, and the limit of this course of life?’ 1
ityarāḍo yathāśāstra vispaṣṭārtha samāsataḥ |
tamevānyena kalpena dharmamasmai vyabhāṣata || 12.45
45. Then Arāḍa, according to his doctrine, declared to him in another way that course
of life clearly and succinctly.
ayamādau ghānmuktvā bhaikṣāka ligamāśritaḥ |
samudācāravistīrṇa śīlamādāya vartate || 12.46
46. ‘The devotee, in the beginning, having left his house, and assumed the signs of the
mendicant, goes on, following a rule of conduct which extends to the whole life.
satoṣa paramāsthāya yena tena yatastataḥ |
vivikta sevate vāsa nirdvadvaḥ śāstravitktī || 12.47
47. ‘Cultivating absolute content with any alms from any person, he carries out his
lonely life, indifferent to all feelings, meditating on the holy books, and satisfied in
himself.
tato rāgādbhaya dṣṭvā vairāgyācca para śivam |
nighṇannidriyagrāma yatate manasaḥ śrame || 12.48
48. ‘Then having seen how fear arises from passion and the highest happiness from the
absence of passion, he strives, by restraining all the senses, to attain to tranquillity of
mind.
atho vivikta kāmebhyo vyāpādādibhya eva ca |
vivekajamavāpnoti pūrvadhyāna vitarkavat || 12.49
49. ‘Then he reaches the first stage of contemplation, which is separated from desires,
evil intentions and the like, and arises from discrimination and which involves
reasoning. 2
1 Dharma.
2 Cf. Yoga-sūtras I, 42.