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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 1, Ch. 9]
āśrama  it is instructed that this material world is not actually the home of the living being. The conditioned souls under material bondage are prisoners of matter, and therefore self-realization is the ultimate aim of life. The whole system of  āśrama-dharma  is a means to detachment. One who fails to assimilate this spirit of detachment is allowed to enter into family life with the same spirit of detachment. Therefore, one who attains detachment may at once adopt the fourth order, namely, renounced, and thus live on charity only, not to accumulate wealth, but just to keep body and soul together for ultimate realization. Household life is for  one who is attached , and the  vānaprastha  and  sannyāsa  orders of life are for  those who are detached  from material life. The  brahmacārī-āśrama  is especially meant for training both the attached and detached.
TEXT 27
दानधर्मान् राजधर्मान् मोक्षधर्मान् विभागशः । 
    स्त्रीधर्मान् भगवद्धर्मान् समासव्यासयोगतः ॥२७॥
dāna-dharmān rāja-dharmān 
    mokṣa-dharmān vibhāgaśaḥ 
    strī-dharmān bhagavad-dharmān 
    samāsa-vyāsa-yogataḥ
dāna-dharmān—the acts of charity; rāja-dharmān—pragmatic activities of the kings; mokṣa-dharmān—the acts for salvation; vibhāgaśaḥ—by divisions; strī-dharmān—duties of women; bhagavat-dharmān—the acts of the devotees; samāsa—generally; vyāsa—explicitly; yogataḥ—by means of.
TRANSLATION
He then explained, by divisions, acts of charity, the pragmatic activities of a king and activities for salvation. Then he described the duties of women and devotees, both briefly and extensively.
PURPORT
To give charity is one of the householder's main functions, and he should be prepared to give in charity at least fifty percent of his hard-earned money. A  brahmacārī , or student, should perform sacrifices, a householder should give charity, and a person in the retired life or in the