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Example sentences for: self-mortification

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For six years he begged for his food, learned to meditate, and practiced severe self-mortification, but still felt no nearer to understanding life’s suffering.
But Mahavira (the Great Hero) pursued self-mortification to the end of his life, stripping off his clothes to take his word from kingdom to kingdom.