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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 5, Ch. 9]
continuously for three lives, he was not interested in continuing to execute them, although his  brāhmaṇa  father wanted him to do so.
TEXT 5
स चापि तदु ह पितृसंनिधावेवासध्रीचीनमिव स्म करोति छन्दांस्य- व्यापयिष्यन् सह व्याहृतिभिः सप्रणवशिरस्त्रिपदां सावित्रीं ग्रैष्म- वासन्तिकान्मासानधीयानमप्यसमवेतरूपं ग्राहयामास ॥ ५ ॥
sa cāpi tad u ha pitr-sannidhāv evāsadhrīcīnam iva sma karoti chandāmsy adhyāpayiṣyan saha vyāhṛtibhiḥ sapraṇava-śiras tripadīm sāvitrīm graiṣma-vāsantikān māsān adhīyānam apy asamaveta-rūpam grāhayām āsa.
saḥ—he (Jaḍa Bharata); ca—also; api—indeed; tat u ha—that which was instructed by his father; pitr-sannidhau—in the presence of his father; eva—even; asadhrīcīnam iva—not correct, as if he could not understand anything; sma karoti—used to perform; chandāmsi adhyāpayiṣyan—desiring to teach him Vedic mantras during the months beginning with Śrāvaṇa or during the period of Cāturmāsya; saha—along with; vyāhṛtibhiḥ—the utterance of the names of the heavenly planets (bhūḥ, bhuvaḥ, svaḥ); sa-praṇava-śiraḥ—headed by omkāra; tri-padīm—three-footed; sāvitrīm—the Gāyatrī mantra; graiṣma-vāsantikān—for four months, beginning with Caitra, on the fifteenth of May; māsān—the months; adhīyānam api—although fully studying; asamaveta-rūpam—in an incomplete form; grāhayām āsa—he made him learn.
TRANSLATION
Jaḍa Bharata behaved before his father like a fool, despite his father's adequately instructing him in Vedic knowledge. He behaved in that way so that his father would know that he was unfit for instruction and would abandon the attempt to instruct him further. He would behave in a completely opposite way. Although instructed to wash his hands after evacuating, he would wash them before. Nonetheless, his father wanted to give him Vedic instruc-