Sri Sankara does not advise abandoning one wife. Married life must go on. But he
warns again! undue attachment to that life. Go about your fill knowing the truth about
things. Do not unnecessarily come to grief mistaking the false for the true. Why is a
wife? What is a son? What is the connection between your life and theirs? The bonds of the
body subsist only so long as life lasts. That is what & Sankara says.
One must perform the duties of a
householder. But, a wise man will act realising the limitation everything. It is
profitless to mistake the fleeting for the permanent. If one acts with a proper
understanding of things, one would have less cause for grief. |
