Shloka 25
Adhyaya 28 — Alarka Inquires into Varna and Ashrama Dharma; Madalasa Defines the Fourfold Duties
तत्रारण्योपभोगश्च तपोभिश्चानुकरषणम् । भूमौ शय्या ब्रह्मचर्यं पितृदेवातिथिक्रिया ॥
tatrāraṇyopabhogaś ca tapobhiś cānukarṣaṇam | bhūmau śayyā brahmacaryaṃ pitṛdevātithikriyā ||
तेथे वनवासात वन्य पदार्थांवरच उपजीविका करावी आणि तपश्चर्येने देहाचे शमन करावे। भूमीवर शयन करावे, ब्रह्मचर्य पाळावे आणि पितृ, देव व अतिथी यांचे विधिपूर्वक कर्म करावे।
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FAQs
Vānaprastha is presented as a disciplined transition from household life: simplifying consumption, intensifying tapas, and maintaining obligations of reverence (ancestors, deities) and hospitality (guests).
Primarily Dharma-śikṣā within the Purāṇic instruction stream; not directly sarga/pratisarga/vaṃśa/manvantara/vaṃśānucarita, though it supports social order that Purāṇas preserve alongside genealogies.
Forest subsistence and sleeping on earth symbolize grounding the ego; continence and tapas redirect vitality toward inner clarity, while pitṛ-deva-atithi rites keep the renunciant aligned with cosmic reciprocity rather than mere self-denial.