Unreality Of All Worldly Relationships Another disciple said to his teacher: Revered sir, my wife takes great care of me. It is for her sake that I cannot give up the world. The disciple practised hathayoga. The teacher taught him, too, a trick to test his wifes love. One day there was a great wailing in his house. The neighbours came running and saw the hathayogi seated in a posture, his limbs paralysed and distorted. They thought he was dead. His wife fell on the ground, weeping piteously: Oh, what has befallen me? How have you provided for our future? Oh, friends, I never dreamt I should meet such a fate! In the mean time the relatives and friends had brought a cot to take the corpse out. But suddenly a difficulty arose as they started to move it. Since the body was twisted and stiff, it could not be taken out through the door. A neighbour quickly brought an axe and began to chop away the door-frame. The wife was crying bitterly, when she heard the sound of the axe. She ran to the door. What are you doing, friends? she asked, still weeping. The neighbour said, We cant take the body out; so we are chopping away the door-frame. Please, said the wife, dont do any such thing. I am a widow now; I have no one to look after me. I have to bring up these young children. If you destroy this door, I shall not be able to replace it. Friends, death is inevitable for all, and my husband cannot be called back to life. You had better cut his limbs. The hathayogi at once stood up. The effect of the medicine had worn off. He said to his wife: You evil one! You want to cut off my hands and feet, do you? So saying, he renounced home and followed his teacher.
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