The founders and earliest practitioners of these religions -LRB- e.g. MISC@1 , LOCATION@1 -RRB- lived extremely austere lifestyles refraining from sensual pleasures and the accumulation of material wealth .

The founders and earliest practitioners of these religions -LRB- e.g. MISC@1 , LOCATION@1 , the MISC@2 desert fathers -RRB- lived extremely austere lifestyles . They rejected sensual pleasures and the accumulation of material wealth .
