Also because it is taught that the gods perform the duties of all the other Ashramas (stages of life) as those of the ascetic condition.

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47. (The state of being an ascetic is superior to other states); but the passage concluding with the superiority of the householder refers to the gods, for they alone possess in full the virtues of the householder (and of the ascetic as well).

(The householder is the most exalted of all in heaven; for in the Chandogya Upanishad the passage) winding up with the importance of the householder runs thus: “He who having completely rendered his service as a pupil to the preceptor enters on the life of a householder, and living in a hallowed tract of country, studies scripture; performs righteous acts and righteously begets sons and maintains his children and others, centres all his senses on the Supreme Being, refrains from killing life except in the holy acts of sacrifice and thus spends the whole of his life time, — he attains to the world of Brahman”; and further on it is stated in the same passage, “And he does not return, does not return” (Ch. VIII 15. 1). But this cannot be said (admitted); for the conclusion of the passage refers only to the gods who are perfect householders. Thus the Pautrayana Shruti says:

“And these gods are certainly the perfect householders and they are the perfect ascetics; for their sons do not inherit their property, nor do they ever give up their house (the householder’s character). But they are destitute of love, hate and covetousness; they have all enjoyments; they are all-knowing; and they do everything”.

(They are superior to all those, that are in the different Ashramas or stages of life). Not only the two stages (mentioned under the previous Sutra, but all the four stages are appropriately filled by the gods; for, it is taught in the Kauntharavya Shruti that the duties of all other stages are discharged by the gods, the ascetic condition being taken as typical. The Shruti runs thus: “The gods only are the Brahmacharins, the gods are the householders, the gods are the hermits just as they are the ascetics; they are of all castes and they are of all Ashramas or stages, for they do the duties of all.”

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