Dancing with Śiva

Sannyāsa Dharmaḥ

संन्यासधर्मः

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Monastic Life

Having transcended the desire for sons, the desire for wealth, the desire for worlds, they go about as mendicants. For the desire for sons is the desire for wealth, and the desire for wealth is the desire for worlds. All these are nothing but desires. He, the ātman, is not this, not this.§

Śukla Yajur Veda, Bṛihadāraṇyaka Upanishad 4.4.22. VE, 717§