The Social Organisation in North-East India in Buddha's Time c9.38

c9.38

Often an insight into the efforts and activities of people in one’s own station, the knowledge of the deceits practised by them through greediness, makes homelessness appear to a virtuous Brâhmaṇa more worthy than honour and wealth in worldly life. The young Brâhmaṇa scholar (II. 422) who receives from his teacher, in answer to the question, How can one succeed in the world? the reply that he can do so only by intrigue and bad practices, chooses *pabbajjá* with the words: