Bhagavatapurana 5.5.28

5.5.28

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evam anuśāsyātmajān svayam anuśiṣṭān api lokānuśāsanārthaṃ mahānubhāvaḥ parama-suhṛd bhagavān ṛṣabhāpadeśa upaśama-śīlānām uparata-karmaṇāṃ mahā-munīnāṃ bhakti-jñāna-vairāgya-lakṣaṇaṃ pāramahaṃsya-dharmam upaśikṣamāṇaḥ sva-tanaya-śata-jyeṣṭhaṃ parama-bhāgavataṃ bhagavaj-jana-parāyaṇaṃ bharataṃ dharaṇi-pālanāyābhiṣicya svayaṃ bhavana evorvarita-śarīra-mātra-parigraha unmatta iva gagana-paridhānaḥ prakīrṇa-keśa ātmany āropitāhavanīyo brahmāvartāt pravavrāja //

28. Sri Suka said:— The glorious Lord bearing the name Rishabha, thus commanded and instructed His sons, though they

were themselves well disciplined, for the guidance of the world; being the supreme Lord of unlimited power and also the best friend of all, He intended to exemplify in His life the duties of the Paramahaṃsa order, *viz.*, devotion, acquisition of wisdom and renunciation, which should characterise great sages and contemplatists who have formed habits of tranquility and given up the course of (gross) karma. He crowned Bharata, the eldest of his hundred sons, most devoted to God and the best asylum to the Lord's devotees and commanded him to protect the kingdom; and He himself with no other property in the house than His mere body, behaved like a mad man, was sky-clad, with dishevelled hair, and having enshrined the sacrificial fire (the deity Agni) in Himself He went out of Brahmāvarta as an ascetic.