At a very young age Asumal lost his father and the family business started dwindling. Asumal had to discontinue his education and shoulder on the family's responsibility along with his elder brother. Asumal's presence in the business improved the profits, but his mind was far away from the business. He always yearned for spiritual knowledge.
After his father's demise Asumal's discrimination towards life intensified. He increased the time for mediation and realized that God alone is one reality & essence of life. His concentration increased greatly due to regular, pure meditation and unknowingly all siddhis (mystical powers) attended upon him at the tender age of ten years. No one could stop the fire of renunciation that was enveloping him completely. As Asumal grew into youth his meditation and search for Truth intensified. Asumal's growing detachment to the world worried his family and they decided to get him married. Asumal's family got him engaged.
"Granite walls however high are not high enough to shut out fate,
Iron chains however strong are not strong enough to trap a free bird."
Asumal kept postponing marriage for two & half years. Eventually, his family fixed up a date for marriage. He did not want to be entangled in the bondage of marriage so he ran away from home eight days before marriage. Members of family & friends started searching for Asumal, they found him in Ashok Ashram of Bharuch & dragged him back to home. Asumal was married to Lakshmi Devi.
He told his wife, " I don't want to be enmesh myself into this samsara. I want to be free like Shuka, Buddha, Shankara. So don't obstruct me in my way." Lakshmi Devi did gave her assent. Even a golden chain could not bind a free bird.
Asumal joined a Sanskrit School in order to grow more spiritually. He used to sleep in the school at night away from his wife & practice celibacy (Brahmacharya) sincerely. Four days before exam he was highly influenced by a shloka which meant that, "The one who has disowned expectations & materialistic desires & has adopted the desire less state, the penances & worship of such a person has reached completion." His desire to attain God got intensified. He made up his mind to break from family so as to realize God.
"Life at its best is a long drawn agony, only its pains bide,
Its pleasures are as birds that are light and fly;
Men live and die and whirl upon the wheel and hug and kiss it's spokes of agony;
It's tier of tears, it's nave of nothingness.
I have been yearning to know if these were the eternal lot of men."
Its pleasures are as birds that are light and fly;
Men live and die and whirl upon the wheel and hug and kiss it's spokes of agony;
It's tier of tears, it's nave of nothingness.
I have been yearning to know if these were the eternal lot of men."
These were the thoughts that were going on in the mind of Asumal when he renounced the world.
After leaving his dominions, Asumal went from place to place and at nights slept on the grass, homeless and alone. He did intense spiritual practices in deep forests, on hills, in deep caves, in various great temples.
At Kedarnath, the Pujari blessed Asumal to become a millionaire, but Asumal did not appreciate this. He worshipped again & made a pledge to attain God.