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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 4, Ch. 23]
spiritual life because a person who is engaged in spiritual life must reduce the comforts of the body—namely eating, sleeping and mating—to a minimum. Although Queen Arci became very thin from living in the forest according to regulative principles, she was not unhappy because she was enjoying the honor of serving her great husband.
TEXT 21
देहं विपन्नाखिलचेतनादिकं
पत्युः पृथिव्या दयितस्य चात्मनः ।
आलक्ष्य किञ्चिच्च विलप्य सा सती
चितामथारोपयद्रिसानुनि ॥२१॥
deham vipannākhila-cetanādikam 
    patyuḥ pṛthivyā dayitasya cātmanaḥ 
    ālakṣya kiñcic ca vilapya sā satī 
    citām athāropayad adrisānuni
deham—body; vipanna—completely failing; akhila—all; cetana—feeling; ādikam—symptoms; patyuḥ—of her husband; pṛthivyāḥ—the world; dayitasya—of the merciful; ca ātmanaḥ—also of herself; ālakṣya—by seeing; kiñcit—very little; ca—and; vilapya—lamenting; sā—she; satī—the chaste; citām—unto the fire; atha—now; āropayat—placed; adri—hill; sānuni—on the top.
TRANSLATION
When Queen Arci saw that her husband, who had been so merciful to her and the earth, no longer showed symptoms of life, she lamented for a little while and then built a fiery pyre on top of a hill and placed the body of her husband on it.
PURPORT
After seeing all the life symptoms in her husband stop, the Queen lamented for a while. The word  kiñcit  means “for a little while.” The Queen was completely aware that her husband was not dead, although the symptoms of life—action, intelligence and sense perception—had ceased. As stated in  Bhagavad-gītā :
dehino 'smin yathā dehe 
    kaumāraṁ yauvanaṁ jarā 
    tathā dehāntara-prāptir 
    dhīras tatra na muhyati