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This state of affairs lasted for some time. With the disappearance of the wicked Karmas, Nandişena Muni becoming full of the ideas of renunciation, thought .- 'In this world, happiness is very slight, life is transitory, youth is fragile, this body is subject to diseases, opportunities for Dharma are difficult to be obtained, and for persons who have broken their vow of celibacy, unbearable miseries crop up. In such conditions of life, it is not fit for me to stay here.'
One day, according to her usual practice, the prostitute sent repeated calls to Nandişeņa for dinner, as the food was ready, but he did dot come. Nine persons were ready for Diksā on that day but one goldsmith the tenth-could not be induced by any means to renounce the world The prostitute, at last, went personally to invite him for dinner. Nandişeņa told her :-As yet, the tenth is not ready to leave his house. The prostitute laughingly said. Then you become the tenth':-But these words of the prostitute became disastrous to her.
Nandişena thought- am advising others to renounce the world, and I am myself enjoying worldly pleasures in a prostitute's house.' Immediately leaving the prostitute crying and beating her breast, Nandisèņa left her house and having gone to Śramaņa Bhagavān Mahävīra, he again took Bhāgavatı Diksā from him. Having atoned for his misbehaviour, and having done expiatory rites, Nandişèņa Muni alwayas went with the Worshipful Lord. Nandişeņa Muni led an exemplary ascetic life for a long time, and after death, he was born as a god in Déva loka
8. Grihastha Dharma
The Tirthařkaras promulgated Sadhu Dharma (asceticism) for persons who were able to renounce the pleasures of worldly enjoyment, but they also advised the adoption of Twelve Vows for house holders to achieve the same end
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