The ideal householder is he
Who aids the natural orders three.
His help the monk and retired share,
And celibate students are his care.
By dutiful householder's aid
God, Manes, Kin, self and guests are served.
Sin he shuns and food he shares
His home is bright and brighter fares.
In grace and gain the home excels,
Where love with virtue sweetly dwells.
Who turns from righteous family
To be a monk, what profits he?
Of all who strive for bliss, the great
Is he who leads the married state.
Straight in virtue, right in living
Make men brighter than monks praying.
Home-life and virtue, are the same;
Which spotless monkhood too can claim
He is a man of divine worth
Who lives in ideal home on earth.
MARRIED LIFE
