तप करते यौवन गयो, द्रव्यगयो मुनि दान। प्राण गये सन्यास में, तीनो गये न जान॥

Youth was spent in austerity, wealth in gifts to monks, and life in renunciation—yet all three passed without one ever knowing the self.

— आराध्य सूत्र · #3