Do you know how it looks for a Sannyasi to accept
money or to be attached to an object of
temptation? It is as if a brahmana widow who had
practised continence and lived on simple boiled
rice and vegetables and milk for many years, were
suddenly to accept an untouchable as her
paramour.
There was a low-caste woman named Bhagi Teli in
our part of the country. "She had many disciples
and devotees. Finding that she, a Sudra, was being
saluted by people, the land-lord became jealous and
engaged a wicked man to tempt her. He succeeded
in corrupting her and all her spiritual practice came
to nothing. A fallen Sannyasi is like that.
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