Householder

[Jaldhar H. Vyas]

On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Ramakrishnan Balasubramanian wrote:

> explaining householders _can_ be GYAni-s, eg, janaka, shuka, vyAsa etc.

Shukdevji at least cannot be added to that list.  In fact he cannot even
be considered to be in the brahmachrya ashrama as it states in the
Bhagavata Purana he never had his Upanayana samskara.  And Maharshi Vyas
was a householder only in the most tenuous sense of the word.

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