Sep 27, 2010 17:01
Beh Isho Kamulaya, Discourses on the Monastic Way of Life -
"Again, another mark of the beginning of his purity is the fragrant odor that rises and goes forth from the continual Office of the Psalms, and the repetitiveness of the tongue, and the fervent labor of genuflection before the crosses. By means of them, soon after the solitary who has arrived at the level of purity of the body has begun them, there rises from within his heart and goes forth from him a sweet fragrance that exhales an odor from the purity and holiness of his body. It perfumes all the parts of his body along with all the partitions of his cell. Even the latrine he visits gives off a fragrance from him. So too everywhere he goes round and travels."