Next he became citizen, householder, husband, and father.

That was the required second stage.

Then--like John Bunyan's Christian he bade perpetual good-bye to his family, as required, and went wandering away.

He went far into the desert and served a term as hermit.
Next, he became a beggar, "in accordance with the rites laid down in the Scriptures," and wandered about India eating the bread of mendicancy.

A quarter of a century ago he reached the stage of purity.