Uttarajjhayana 128.1.32_6

128.1.32_6

bhuttā rasā bhoi jahāi -e vao | na jīviyaṭhā pajahāmi bhoe /
lābhaṃ alābhaṃ ca suhaṃ ca dukkhaṃ | saṃcikkhamāṇo carissāmi moṇaṃ ||32||

'We have finished enjoying pleasures, my dear; our life is drawing to its close. I do not abandon pleasures for the sake of an unholy life; but looking with indifference on gain and loss, on happiness and suffering, I shall lead the life of a monk.' (32)
"May you not remember your brothers (when it is too late) like an old goose swimming against the current. Enjoy the pleasures together with me. A mendicant's life is misery." (33)
'My dear, as a snake casts off the slough of its body and goes along free and easy, even so have my sons abandoned pleasure. Why should I, being left alone, not follow them? (34)
'As the fish Rôhita breaks through a weak net, even so wise men of exemplary character and famous for their austerities abandon pleasure and live as mendicants. (35)
"As the herons fly through the air and the geese too, who had rent the net, even so my sons and my husband depart. Why should I, being left alone, not follow them?" (36)
When the queen had heard that the Purôhita with his wife and sons had entered the order, abandoning pleasures and all his large property, she spoke to the king: (37)
'A man who returns, as it were,. to the vomit, is not praised; but you want to confiscate the property left by the Brâhmana. (38)
'If the whole world and all treasures were yours, you would still not be satisfied, nor would all this be able to save you. (39)