Go to the forest (Conversations)

Expressions researched:
"go away to the forest" |"go into the forest" |"go out into the forest" |"go out to the forest" |"go to the Vandavana forest" |"go to the forest" |"goes from forest to forest" |"goes into the forest" |"goes to a forest" |"goes to the forest" |"going away to the forest" |"going to the forest" |"gone into the forest" |"gone to the forest"

Notes from the compiler: VedaBase query: "go* forest"/5 or "went forest"/5

1968 Conversations and Morning Walks

Questions and Answers -- Montreal, August 26, 1968:

Prabhupāda: Caṇākya Paṇḍita is giving too much stress on mother and wife in family life. So he says if one's mother is dead and if his wife is not very..., apriya-vādinī, and does not behave very well, ill-behaving, so Caṇākya Paṇḍita advises him that aranyaṁ tena gantavyam: such person should immediately go to the forest. Because in the Vedic understanding there is no divorce. If the wife is not very pleasing, there is no question of divorcing. Caṇākya Paṇḍita does not advise it, the advise that he should divorce such wife, but he says, aranyaṁ tena gantavyam: he should give up family life and go to the forest. Divorce was completely unknown, even up to, say, five years ago. Now this Nehru government has enacted Divorce Act in Hindu law, but actually, Hindu law-maker, they have no such thing as divorce.