There can be no penance without pain.

In my opinion, there is no penance higher than fast.

There were no penances that I have read of that seemed to me impossible.

There was no penance, how bittersweet soever, could make him a little worthy of her.

After the same manner there is no penance that is superior to the observance of fasts.

There is no penance I will not do.

There is no penance like (that involved in) Truth.

2: Further, there is no penance without actual displeasure at one's sins.

There is no penance like renunciation.

This is what I hold, O son of Kunti, that there is no penance that is superior to abstention from food!

In respect of such control over the senses as also in the acquisition of virtue, there is no penance higher than abstention from food.