{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/sbe48/sbe48486.htm","path":"hin/sbe48/sbe48486.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe48/sbe48486.htm","text":"39. But better than that is the other also on account of an inferential mark.\nBetter than to be outside the \u00e2sramas is the condition of standing within an \u00e2srama. The latter state may be due to misfortune; but he who can should be within an \u00e2srama, which state is the more holy and beneficial one. This follows from inference only, i.e. Smriti; for Smriti says, 'A Br\u00e2hmana is to remain outside the \u00e2sramas not even for one day.' For one who has passed beyond the stage of Brahmakarya, or whose wife has died, the impossibility to procure a wife constitutes the misfortune (which prevents him from belonging to an \u00e2srama).--Here terminates the adhikarana of 'widowers.'","title":"SBE 48: The Vedanta-Sutras with commentary by Ramanuja, George Thibaut, tr.: Fourth P\u00e2da: 39. But better than that is the other also on account of an inferential mark","type":"page"}