In plain words
‘Does prāṇa leave everyone?’ came another question. ‘It cannot be escaped. Some time or other that prāṇa goes,’ came the answer. He heard it. He took his journey no further. He called it off. He came home. He did not eat. At night he lay down. Sleep did not come. His wife Yaśodharā and his son Rāhula lay asleep. He looked at them once with a piercing gaze. ‘Sarvaṃ duḥkham duḥkham duḥkham’, ‘sarvaṃ bhayam bhayam bhayam’, ‘sarvaṃ anityaṃ anityaṃ anityaṃ’, ‘sarvaṃ śūnyaṃ śūnyaṃ śūnyaṃ’: with these words he left the house and went, in fierce Vairāgya. We see so many sick people, we see so many old people, we see so many corpses. But does this Vairāgya come to everyone? No. It came to Siddhārtha alone.
Only by the grace of God does fierce Vairāgya come
For the strength to attain such fierce Vairāgya, the grace of God alone is needed. In the same way, a prince went to the forest on a pleasure trip. Wandering on and on, he grew very tired. Tired, he went into an āśrama, looking for water. The swāmi who lived in that āśrama asked, ‘Who are you, sir?’ ‘My name is Jitendriya,’ he said. To the muni who asked, ‘Where have you come from?’: ‘I have come from the Jitendriya kingdom. I need water to drink,’ he said. He gave him water. He gave him a seat. He wondered whether this man's conduct was worthy of his name. A man takes the name Dharmaja, for example, and he is all Adharma! In the same way, one who bears the name Tyāgarāja may not be able to act as his name requires. ‘He has taken the name Jitendriya. Can he show it in practice, in a way worthy of it? He says the name of his kingdom too is the Jitendriya kingdom. Let us see,’ he thought. He took the prince's clothes, gave him a sannyāsī's clothes: ‘Bābā! Stay here two days. I will go and come back’; and he went to the Jitendriya kingdom. There were soldiers there. Since this sannyāsī had come, they said ‘Namaskāram.’ ‘My dear fellows! I have come here to make known a piece of news.