abides
August 2008 
without obligations, without tears
Posted on Jul 18th, 2008
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sanmugan
sanmugan
Who, weary of Brahman studentship, having fully learnt the Vedas, is discharged by the teacher he had ever obeyed, such a one is called the asramin. Choosing a wife of equally high birth, he should deposit the sacred fires, and bring to those Deities the Brahman sacrifice day and night until, dividing among the children his property, abstaining from conjugal pleasures, he gives himself to the forest life, wandering in a pure region. Living on water and on air, and on such fruit as proper, fire within body, he abides on earth without obligations, without tears. - Sannyasa Upanishad 2.1-4. upb, 735-36
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