॥ श्लोक ॥ भिक्षाहारी निराहारी । भिक्षा नैव प्रतिग्रहः ।
असंतो वापि संतो वा । सोमपानं दिने दिने ॥
(This is a Sanskrit shloka cited here, restating and reinforcing the previous verse.) One who lives by begging alms is, in truth, one who fasts; taking alms is not the same as accepting a gift. Whether the giver is virtuous or wicked, filling one's stomach daily on such alms is like drinking the sacred soma every single day.