Gradually leading off the domestic mode, one should enter the third mode which is good. It is the mode which is followed by persons who living with their wives pain themselves by means of austerities. It is the mode followed by those who live in forest as hermits.
क्रमशस्त्ववधूयैनां तृतीयां वृत्तिमुत्तमाम्। संयोगव्रतखिन्नानां वानप्रस्थाश्रमौकसाम्॥