non-asrama

Updated: July 7, 2026

'He who has become that, i.e. he who has entered on the condition of a Naishthika or the like 'cannot become not that, i.e. may not live in a non-asrama condition; since scriptural texts restrain men who once have entered the Naishthika, &c., state 'from the absence of the forms of that, i.e. from the discontinuance of the special duties of their asrama.

- The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48