One who acts in devotional service, renouncing the fruits of his actions, and whose doubts have been destroyed by transcendental knowledge, is situated factually in the self. Thus he is not bound by the reactions of work.

B.G., 4.41

…that passionate desire which is like a moth in a flame; which, having the nature of a spotless, luminous moon trembling in water, is exceedingly difficult to grasp; which, like a sea monster among the billows in a torrent, is hard to catch; which moves with the wind’s or a Garuda’s speed; which, being exceedingly light, whirls about like a cotton tuft; which leaps about, always in motion, like a monkey; which ever seeks the flavor of passion’s happiness; which feeds the impurities; which, entirely absorbing all thought, is careless of that rough and dangerous precipice that leads to all those impurities—which, with the supremely mysterious sound that is the yearning of union, is loosed from the bow of false understanding…

“The Story of Prince Súdhana,” The Heavenly Exploits: Buddhist Biographies from the Divyavadana (Clay Sanskrit Library)

Etymology:  < perforate v. + -or suffix. Compare post-classical Latin perforator tool for boring holes (late 13th cent. in a British source), piercer (1404, 1526 in British sources), Old Occitan perforador (14th cent.).

 1. 

 a. Surg. An instrument for piercing the skull of a (dead) fetus in the birth canal in order to facilitate delivery. Also: a trephine.

1739    S. Sharp Treat. Surg. xiii. 61   Withdrawing the Perforator, leave the Waters to empty by the Canula.

1790    Med. Communications 2 454   We are under the necessity of using the perforator and crotchet.

1822    J. W. Good Study Med. IV. 210   The forceps or what, in the probability of the child’s being still alive is ten times worse, the perforator must be called into action.

1871    A. Meadows Man. Midwifery (ed. 2) 242   Rather than see the mother die undelivered, I used the perforator and extracted.

1904    Brit. Med. Jrnl. 10 Sept. 606   Douglas’s septum perforator and curved septum knife.

1985    M. F. Myles Textbk. Midwives (ed. 10) xxxv. 659   The point of the perforator‥is inserted. 

 b. Archaeol. A pointed (usually stone) tool for making holes.

1854    J. W. Taylor Hist. Ohio 1650–1787 14   Within these enclosures have been found stone axes, pipes, perforators, bone fish hooks, [etc.].

1901    Amer. Anthropologist 3 517   The arrowpoint illustrated belongs to the class usually called perforators, or drills.

1949    Amer. Antiq. 14 97/1   The eastern specimens do not include what Greenman has called perforators.

1998    Jrnl. Field Archaeol. 25 337/2   It [sc. a midden] contained some elite materials (including a broken jade perforator, a jaguar tooth, and a shell pendant). 

 c. A machine for making perforations or holes in paper, sheets of stamps, etc.

1855    Littell’s Living Age 6 Jan. 39/1   The printed sheets reach Somerset House, where Mr. Hill’s invincible perforators stab them right and left.

1876    W. H. Preece & J. Sivewright Telegraphy §119   The [Wheatstone] apparatus consists of three parts: the perforator, which prepares the message by punching holes in a paper ribbon; the transmitter‥and the receiver.

1911    Encycl. Brit. XXVI. 521/2   The Creed system‥provides a keyboard perforator which punches Morse letters or figures on a paper strip by depressing typewriter keys.

1948    Proc. Symp. Large-scale Digital Calculating Machinery 1947 (U.S. Navy Dept. & Harvard Univ.) 251   The electronic commutator controls the transfer from the registers into the teletype perforator, which in turn prepares the final tape.

1971    R. Brewer Approach to Print x. 118 (caption)    Diagram of a computer typesetting system. Here the copy is taken from the ‘input perforator’ stage.

1993    Gibbons Stamp Monthly Jan. 93 35/2   The comb perforator, travelling vertically, has jumped an entire row of stamps, resulting in two of the stamps being imperforate at base. 

 d. A machine for tunnelling through rock; a machine for drilling holes in rock in which blasting charges are placed. Now rare.

1861    Sci. Amer. 21 Sept. 180/1   The perforators operate in the most satisfactory manner.

1891    R. Routledge Discov. & Inventions 19th Cent. (ed. 8) 267   On the 25th December, 1870, perforator No. 45 bored a hole from Italy into France, by piercing the wall of rock.

1910    Chambers’s Jrnl. Oct. 688/1   This perforator is suspended with the base uppermost, elevated by a machine similar to the ordinary pile-driver, and, when it reaches the predetermined height, automatically released. 

 2. Anat. A perforating artery, vein, muscle, or nerve. Freq. attrib.

1824    Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 114 239   Tendons go off from each side of the perforator muscles.

1967    Acta Chirurgica Scandinavica 133 277 (title)    Variations in operative technique‥in subfascial ligation of incompetent ankle perforator veins.

2003    Jrnl. Reconstructive Microsurg. 19 443   A degree of communication was found between the superficial sural artery‥and the muscle perforators from the gastrocnemius muscle.

†3. Entomol. Any of various organs used by certain insects to penetrate a surface or bore a hole; spec. an ovipositor. Obs. rare.

1828    J. Stark Elements Nat. Hist. II. 335   Tenthredo.‥ Perforator not projecting beyond the anus.

1828    J. Stark Elements Nat. Hist. II. 336   Some have the last half segment of the abdomen prolonged into a point, with a projecting perforator of three filaments.

A middle-northern March, now as always—
gusts from the south broken against cold winds—
but from under, as if a slow hand lifted a tide,
it moves—not into April—into a second March,
the old skin of wind-clear scales dropping
upon the mould: this is the shadow projects the tree
upward causing the sun to shine in his sphere.

From “A Celebration,” William Carlos Williams

Winter is long in this climate
and spring—a matter of a few days
only,—a flower or two picked
from mud or from among wet leaves
or at best against treacherous
bitterness of wind, and sky shining
teasingly, then closing in black
and sudden, with fierce jaws.

– From “March,” William Carlos Williams

1. The action of feed v., in its various senses.

c897    K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care v. 42   Sio feding ðara sceapa.

c1320    tr. J. Bonaventura Medit. 39   Þe fyrst ys a bodly fedyng.

14..    Epiph. in Tundale’s Vis. 120   Thys day is named Phagyphanye‥For thys word phagy‥Is seyd of fedyng.

c1475    Babees Bk. (Harl. 5086) (2002) i. 7   In youre fedynge luke goodly yee be sene.

1526    W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. BBBii,   Pamperyng‥our bodyes by‥moche fedyng of delicate meates & drynkes.

1676    J. Ray Corr. (1848) 122   Skill in the feeding‥of singing-birds.

1725    H. Sloane Voy. Islands II. 285   According to its feeding on venemous or not venemous food, ‘tis wholesome or poysonous.

1803    Davy in Phil. Trans. XCIII. 272   The feeding of leather in the slow method of tanning.

1836    Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) viii. 75   There was not a gleam of‥anything but feeding in his whole visage.

1879    ‘G. Eliot’ Theophrastus Such i. 15   A feeding-up into monstrosity.

1897    Encycl. Sport I. 404/2   Many aver that‥Alan Rotherham was the first to reduce the art of feeding to a science.

1929    J. B. Priestley Good Companions ii. i. 253   This feeding I’m talking about‥is a name in the profession for working up to gags.

 2. 

 a. concr. That which is eaten; food. Now rare.

1398    J. de Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietat. Rerum (1495) xviii. i. 736   Some beestys gadre store of mete and fedynge.

c1440    Promp. Parv. 152/2   Fedynge, or fode, pastum.

1532–3    Act 24 Hen. VIII c. 3   Beoffe, mutton, porke, and veale‥is the common feedyng of‥poore persons.

1581    R. Mulcaster Positions xxxvii. 147   Will ye let the fry encrease, where the feeding failes?

1653    I. Walton Compl. Angler 148   His [the Pike’s] feeding is usually fish or frogs.

1866    Handy Horse Bk. 20   So should the horses feeding be augmented by one-third‥more than usual.

†b. to take feeding (of): to feed (upon). In quot. c1500 fig.

c1500    Melusine (1895) 298   Her of whom myn eyen toke theire fedyng. 

†c. Nourishment, sustenance. Obs.

1547    A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe i. Proheme f. iiii,   Consyder yf‥the sicnes in the exteriall partes haue any fedyng from the interyall partes.

 3. Grazing-ground or pasture land; pasturage, feeding-ground. Obs. exc. dial.

c1430    Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) ii. cix. 116   He‥ouer~throweth here feedinges [pasturaux].

1467    in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 47   Alle the landys, medewes, pasturys, and fedyngys callyd Southwode.

1554–5    Act 2 & 3 Phil. & Mary c. 3   Lands or feedings, apt for milch kine.

1627    J. Speed Eng. Abridged iii. §4   Kent‥in some things hath the best esteeme: as in‥feedings for Cattell.

1669    J. Worlidge Systema Agric. (1681) 31   The Spring and Autumn feeding, whereon six or eight Cattle usually grazed.

1768    J. Boswell Acct. Corsica (ed. 2) i. 40   Sheep‥have fine feeding.

a1855    W. T. Spurdens Forby’s Vocab. E. Anglia (1858) III. 16   You turned your horse into my feeding.

31. I dreamt that Earth was finished. And the only
human being to contemplate the end was Franz
Kafka. In heaven, the Titans were fighting to the
death. From a wrought-iron seat in Central Park,
Kafka was watching the world burn.

40. I dreamt that a storm of phantom numbers was
the only thing left of human beings three billion
years after Earth ceased to exist.

44. I dreamt I was translating the Marquis de Sade
with axe blows. I’d gone crazy and was living in the
woods.

Source: http://bombsite.com/issues/999/articles/4864

With knowledge he cracked open the shell of that egg, the mundane world: he realized the Three Knowledges, the Six Superknowledges, and the Four Analytical Knowledges. From conditioned existence, with its gain and greed, fame and honor, he had turned away.

“The Story of Shrona Koti-Karna,” The Heavenly Exploits: Buddhist Biographies from the Divyavadana (Clay Sanskrit Library)