(Mishnah): If he vowed with 'Cherem', and said later that he meant a fishing net (it is also called Cherem), or he vowed with 'Korban', and said that he meant a Korban (gift) given to kings...

'Atzmi (I am like a) Korban', and he said 'I vowed only about a bone (Etzem) that I set aside to vow with it' (that it should sound like a vow, but really, it is not a vow)...

Konam that my wife may not benefit from me, and he said 'I vowed only about my first wife that I divorced her'...

About all of these, one need not ask [a Chacham to permit them]. If he asks, we punish him and are stringent upon him. R. Meir says so;

Chachamim say, we find a different Pesach for him, and teach him not to take Nedarim lightly.

(Gemara): One man vowed with these matters. He came to R. Meir, and he sent him to R. Yehudah, and told him 'tell him that you came to me, and I sent you to him.

He came to R. Yehudah, and he sent him to R. Yosi, and told him 'tell him that R. Meir sent you to me, and I sent you to him.

He came to R. Yosi. He said 'if the first (R. Meir) does not permit you, the latter Chachamim will not permit you.

[R. Meir] holds that if he asks, we punish him and apply stringencies to him. (This is why he burdened him to go to R. Yehudah (OHR HA'YASHAR. These Chachamim lived in different cities - ALEI TAMAR.)

He returned to R. Meir, and said 'you knew that it is so. Why didn't you tell me at the beginning?'

R. Meir: I saw that you are lenient [about Nedarim], so I was stringent on you.