How could your heart approve of that mode of life which recommends an earthen pot, and a triple-headed rod, and which compels one to give up his very clothes, and which sanctions the acceptance of only a handful of barley after leaving off everything? If, again, you hold that kingdom and a handful of barley are the same to you, then why do you abandon the foriner.
य इमां कुण्डिका भिन्द्यात् त्रिविष्टब्धं च यो हरेत्। वासश्चापि हरेत् तस्मिन् कथं ते मानसं भवेत्॥ यस्त्वयं सर्वमुत्सृज्य धानामुष्टेरनुग्रहः। यदानेन समं सर्वं किमिदं ह्यवसीयसे॥