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At age 8 Plotinus was unusually still being breastfed by his wet nurse, by the same age Shankara had already renounced life as a student and householder to become a monastic sannyasin after a crocodile had seized Shankara while he was in the river and he used it as an opportunity to extract from his nearby mother a promise to give him permission to become a sannyasin if the crocodile released him. This same difference of attainment in spiritual progress by Shankara and Plotinus set the direction for the rest of their lives and continued to be a pattern, the imbalance was never equalized