Asceticism Has The Power To Attain True Liberty. Poem by Dr. Antony Theodore

Ascetical discipline
must lead to freedom.

By detachment and purity of heart,
if one succeeds to penetrate
the inner secret of the ground
of one's ordinary experience,
he attains a liberty
which nobody can touch,
which nobody can affect.

It is the monastic view of reality.

Necessary is it, and inevitable
are the practices of asceticism
in a spiritual search.

(But there are several other concepts such as abnegation, mortification, penance, self-denial, sacrifice, renunciation and detachment) .