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## Chapter 218: The Scattering of the Eager Refusal
The elder brother, burdened by the weight of food and drink, was surely overcome. Therefore, he graciously offered the ghee pot to me to carry. ||43||
The elder brother, a sage, had arrived after a long time, weary and exhausted. I could not bear to leave him there and return without him. ||44||
The younger brother, to distract his mind from the thought, "He might be angry," began to talk about household matters. The great sage, Bhavadatta, listened patiently. ||45||
"These are the trees that line the village, the resting places for travelers. You two, like monkeys, roam freely among them." ||46||
"These are the lakes, where we, in our childhood, used to play with lotus stems, our throats adorned with their beauty." ||47||
"These are the lands that stretch to the village, like grains of sand. Here, we used to play with sand mounds, during the rainy season." ||48||
Bhavadatta, speaking thus to his younger brother, went to the village, sanctified by the lotus feet of the Acharya. ||49||
Seeing Bhavadatta, the sage, with his younger brother, arrive at the door, the small ones, with crooked smiles, said to each other: ||50||
"Surely, this man, adorned in divine attire, is a disciple of the sage, brought here to renounce the world and speak the truth." ||51||
"Bhavadatta, who is this young man who has arrived?" asked the sun. He replied, "This is my younger brother, who desires to see the Lord." ||52||
Sarina, Bhavadatta's elder brother, asked, "Why have you come to renounce the world?" He replied, "My brother is not a liar, it is true." ||53||
Bhavadatta, then, renounced the world, accompanied by the sages. He was deemed fit to wander elsewhere, with the virtuous. ||54||
Thinking, "Has Bhavadatta not arrived yet?" his relatives, coming from behind, spoke to Bhavadatta. ||55||
"Bhavadatta, you have left your beloved, adorned with half her ornaments, behind. Why have you not returned? We are like the living dead without him." ||56||
Like a cuckoo, she, deprived of her beloved, grieves. Her tears, like the sap of a vine, do not cease to flow. ||57||
"Bhavadatta, without asking us, would never leave. It is unthinkable, even in a dream. Where has he gone? What has happened?" ||58||
"We are like those who have lost their own, seeing Bhavadatta nowhere. O sage, please tell us, where is your younger brother?" ||59||
The sage, even though he knew the truth, said, "My younger brother, desiring the water of Dharma, has gone somewhere. We do not know where he has gone, even though he has just arrived." ||60||
"Has he gone on another journey?" they asked, quickly. They returned, dejected, like those who have been robbed by thieves. ||61||
Bhavadatta, remembering his newly married wife in his heart, solely out of brotherly love, continued his renunciation, even though it was painful. ||62||
The great sage, Bhavadatta, after many years, renounced food and became a celestial being, due to his virtue. ||63||
"Bhavadatta, my beloved, Nagila, is like a barren tree. I am also like a barren tree, separated from her. We both are bereft." ||64||