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Re: ARTICLE : God and the Shastras (was Re: ARTICLE : Advice on...)
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Subject: Re: ARTICLE : God and the Shastras (was Re: ARTICLE : Advice on...)
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From: "Jaldhar H. Vyas" <jaldhar@braincells.com>
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Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 03:54:24 GMT
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GERALD J. LA CORTE <l23@hopi.dtcc.edu> wrote in article
> What of sayyassin? And jnanis? And yogis? And swamis? And other
> hermits and renunciates? Do you means its an obligation only if your not
> a hermit or renunciate?
>
Marriage is an obligation because Dharma cannot be practised without it.
Jnana is completely seperate from Dharma so a whole seperate set of rules
apply. Although (particularly in the South) there is a tradition of
Balasannyasa (Sannyasa from childhood) the majority view is one should
become an ascetic towards the end of ones life after family obligations
have been met.
Certainly in the popular mindset a person who abandoned his wife and
children to become a monk would be nothing but an object of derision.
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