DEVI BHAAGAVATAM -SKANDA 1
1#14b. Sage Sukar (2)
Sukar learned everything in Gurukulam with Bruhaspati was his guru. After Sukar returned home from gurukula vaasam, Vyaasaa wanted to fix his marriage with the daughter of a suitable rushi.
He told his son, “There is no liberation for a person who does not have a son. So first raise a family and then you can go on to perform penance”
Sukar was not interested in getting married. He told his father, “Command me to do anything and I will do it willingly. But getting married is not in my plan. I will resist that by all means!”
Vyaasaa told his son, “You are the fruit of a hundred years of severe penance and Siva aaraadhana. I can’t think of you disobeying me on any account”
Sukar presented his side of the argument. “What is the pleasure we get out of a marriage? What appears as pleasure has pain as its tail. A man loses his individuality and freedom the moment he marries a woman.
What is the fun in being always under someone’s control and be manipulated like a puppet? The human body is filled with urine and feces. What kind of pleasure can it offer?
I am not born out of a woman like the others. I will have nothing to do with a woman in the future also. I want to enjoy the pure pleasure of self realization and not these petty carnal pleasures.”
Sukar was equally firm in his opinion.
1#14b. Sage Sukar (2)
Sukar learned everything in Gurukulam with Bruhaspati was his guru. After Sukar returned home from gurukula vaasam, Vyaasaa wanted to fix his marriage with the daughter of a suitable rushi.
He told his son, “There is no liberation for a person who does not have a son. So first raise a family and then you can go on to perform penance”
Sukar was not interested in getting married. He told his father, “Command me to do anything and I will do it willingly. But getting married is not in my plan. I will resist that by all means!”
Vyaasaa told his son, “You are the fruit of a hundred years of severe penance and Siva aaraadhana. I can’t think of you disobeying me on any account”
Sukar presented his side of the argument. “What is the pleasure we get out of a marriage? What appears as pleasure has pain as its tail. A man loses his individuality and freedom the moment he marries a woman.
What is the fun in being always under someone’s control and be manipulated like a puppet? The human body is filled with urine and feces. What kind of pleasure can it offer?
I am not born out of a woman like the others. I will have nothing to do with a woman in the future also. I want to enjoy the pure pleasure of self realization and not these petty carnal pleasures.”
Sukar was equally firm in his opinion.