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KOPAL-KUNDALA.
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and what are my children to eat for a whole year?"
This news he had received after coming to Ságor from other pilgrims who had subsequently arrived. The young man said—
"I told you before you ought not to have come, as there is no one besides yourself to look after your house."
"Not come," said the old man as angrily as before; "three periods of my life[1] have passed, and only one remains; if I am not to look after my soul now, then when shall I?"
The young man said—
"If I rightly understand the Shasters,[2] one can save one's soul just as well by remaining at home as by visiting places of pilgrimage."
- ↑ It is considered that life consists of four stages, viz., Brahmachorjya, Garhasthya, Bánprosthya, and Bhoikhya. The first consists of studying and practising the precepts of the Vedas; the second of marital life and the performance of domestic duties; the third stage is abandonment of the world and leading the life of a hermit in the jungles; the fourth and last is the state of religious mendicancy.
- ↑ The word "Shasters" means books written by the gods or celebrated Munees (Sages), the mythology of the Hindus, comprising the Beds, Tantras, Puráns, &c.
