Prabhupāda: The system is six months father house and six months husband. In this way, going and coming. But when she is elderly, she can remain continually. But in the beginning . . . because after all, she is girl, so she cannot tolerate the separation from father and mother. So six months here, six months . . . so Tulasī dāsa, as soon as the . . . his father-in-law will come to take his daughter, he won't allow. He won't allow.
Brahmānanda: Oh, he's so attached.
Prabhupāda: Yes. "She'll go later on. She'll go." So he went back. The father used to . . . went back. In this way, several times. Then it was agreed that the girl would go there, father's house, and the father took the girl in the morning, and in the evening Tulasī dāsa went there. (laughs) His wife chastised, "You are so rascal fool that I have come this morning, and you have . . . evening you are here? You have so much attachment for the skin?" Just like husband and wife talking.
That struck him very badly, and he immediately left that place and went to . . . left home for good. Yes. And that was the initiation that he took up writing about Rāma. That is Tulasī dāsa's life. Just being, I mean to say, hurt by the words of wife that, "I love her . . ." Later on he understood, "Yes, she is right. So why should I be so much attached?" She uttered this words, "If you have got so much attachment for this skin and bone, oh, if you had so much attachment for Rāma, then your life would have been different." So he took it seriously, "Why not attachment for Rāma?"