Gadhada First Section Vach. 2 Vachanamrut Rahasyarth Pradeepika Tika

What is meant by an unfavourable time, place, etc., due to which, asceticism should not get tainted?

Someone may have a good wife, sufficient good food to eat, and abundant wealth, but on account of his destiny, he may have to go to a foreign country. Consequently, he loses the association with his wife, relatives and wealth. At that foreign land, a beautiful woman may tempt him by giving him all her property, wealth etc.; he may lose all his earned wealth; and be inflicted with a long-term disease, and consequently, he may lose his association with a Sat- purush. Eventually, someone may advise him to chant the incantation (mantra) of some other deity; to worship him instead, meditate on him, and listen to, or read the scriptures of other sects, in order to re-acquire the woman or property, or to be relieved from the difficulties, disease etc. This is what is meant by the terms ‘unfavourable time, place, etc.’