How does a man come to have vairagya
(dispassion)?
A wife once said to her husband: "Dear, I am very
anxious about my brother. For the past one week
he has been thinking of becoming an ascetic, and
has been busy preparing for that life. He is trying
to reduce gradually all his desires and wants." The
husband replied: "Dear, be not anxious about your
brother. Pie will never become a sannyasin. No one
can become a sannyasin in that way." "How does
one become a sannyasin then?" asked the wife.
"Thus" exclaimed the husband; so saying, he tore
his flowing dress to pieces, took a piece and tied it
round his loin, and told his wife that she and all of
her sex were henceforth mothers to him. He left
the house, nevermore to return.
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