Grahasthasramam : ( 24/05/2013. )

DIVINE LIFE: -------------------     To practise non-violence, truth and celibacy is DIVINE LIFE.     To be kind, generous, humble, tolerant is DIVINE LIFE.     To practise virtues and be righteous is DIVINE LIFE.     To serve the poor in selfless, dedicated way is DIVINE LIFE.     To serve the sick with all-is-God attitude is DIVINE LIFE.     To be merciful, courageous and devotional is DIVINE LIFE.     To sing the name of God and pray is DIVINE LIFE.     To do Japa and meditation is DIVINE LIFE.     To be an instrument in the hands of God is DIVINE LIFE.     To act rightly and live in God is DIVINE LIFE.     To do unconditional self-surrender to God is DIVINE LIFE.     To restrain the senses to have God-communion is DIVINE LIFE.     To be on with the Divine Will is DIVINE L...

        SPIRITUAL DAILY ROUTINE FOR THE HOUSEHOLDER : --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Each householder should have an ideal daily routine. The home life should not be left to itself, but taken care of. In addition to those unexpected things that come up every day—a visit of someone, a telephone call, an invitation to go out with someone—every one of you should have an accepted basic programme, a basic schedule for your daily life, which should include an hour of prayer in the morning and an hour of prayer in the evening. The prayer hour might include the reading of scriptural texts, the reading of sacred and inspiring spiritual books, a few minutes of quiet, indrawn meditation, a few minutes of actually articulated prayer, inspiring prayer. The prayer can be spontaneous; it does not necessarily have to come out of some book. Or it can be both, as there are some very inspiring short prayers in the Gospel ...

  THE SANCTITY OF MARRIAGE : Householders should not forget even for a moment that marriage is a sacred thing. The sanctity of married life has to be realised in all its fullness and in all its seriousness. Marriage is a sacrament. It is not just the union of two bodies. That is the least important part of it. The husband and the wife should not think there is absolutely no love above their physical life. There is a love. Marriage is the bringing together by God (through some mysterious law which operates in this universe) of two souls in this vast, vast phenomenon called life in this vast stream of existence where countless millions of souls are moving in their individual planes of spiritual evolution towards the Divine. Through the Grace of God, through the Divine Will, and through the operationof certain laws that govern this universal life, two souls are brought together. That is the meaning of marriage. Through the coming together of these two souls, God means an ...

DOMESTIC ETHICS : ------------------------------ (1) Yoga At Home : ----------------------   Sometimes the house becomes a hell when there is no religious unity between husband and wife. If the husband is religious, the irreligious wife does not allow him to study religious books, to sit in meditation, to visit holy places of pilgrimage, to practise Brahmacharya and to have Satsanga with great souls. She is afraid that he will become a Sannyasin even though he gives a solemn pledge that he will not do so. There are always quarrels in the house between husband and wife. The husband has no peace of mind even though he earns a decent sum and has got all the earthly comforts. The wife threatens the husband, “I will burn all your religious books as study of these books has only produced a change in you and you are neglecting me and do not take any interest in household affairs. I will throw stones at the head of the man who has written these books and has inspired you to take ...

SANCTITY OF WOMANHOOD: ------------------------------------------- 1. Woman is the Divine power on earth. 2. Woman is the first teacher of man. 3. See woman as the Energy of God. 4. Woman is the Sajiva Maya or Chaitanya Maya. 5. Woman is an embodiment of sacrifice, Ahimsa and patience. 6. If she is weak in striking, she is strong in suffering. 7. Woman is an embodiment of patience, gentleness, softness, sweetness, service and Ahimsa. 8. Woman has innate sweetness. She is kind, tender and affectionate. She has a motherly heart. So she is fit for Bhakti-Yoga. 9. The women of Bharatham have preserved the spiritual character of our society.

ADVICE TO HOUSEHOLDERS : - ------------------------------------------- I will tell you a very, very easy method of Sadhana by which you can attain God-consciousness even while you live in the world amidst multifarious activities. You need not have a separate place or room and time of meditation.  Close your eyes for a minute or two once in every two or three hours and think of God and His Divine qualities such as Mercy, Love, Peace, Joy,Knowledge, Purity, Perfection and so forth during work and repeat mentally HARI OM or  SRIRAM orRAM RAMor KRISHNA KRISHNA or  any Mantra according to your liking. Feel that the body is a moving temple of God, your office or business house is a big temple or Vrindavan and  every activity such as walking, talking, writing, eating, breathing, seeing, hearing, etc., are offerings unto the Lord. Work is worship. Work is meditation. Give up expectation of fruits and idea of agency (I am the doer. I am the enjoyer...

    WOMEN: ------------   Modesty is the ornament of women. To go beyond the boundary of modesty, to behave like a man, destroys the elegance, grandeur, grace and beauty of the fair sex. Nothing can atone for the want of modesty in a woman, without which beauty is ungraceful. Modesty is a fundamental virtue which a woman ought to possess. Modesty is a wonderful mixture of humility, politeness, decency, elegance, gentleness and sweetness. Modesty is the most precious ornament of a woman. A modest woman is restrained by a sense of propriety. She has good behaviour and manners. Modesty is the mark of true nobility. A woman without modesty is a flower without fragrance. A woman without modesty is a mere void although she possesses many other virtues. Modesty raises a woman to the status of divinity. A modest woman commands respect. ODevis! do not waste your lives in fashion and passion. Open your eyes. Walk in the path of righteousness. Preserve your Pativrata Dha...

          STHREE DHARMA : Duties of a woman --------------------------   1. Manu says “Let a woman attend to her household duties most cheerfully and with great dexterity, keep her utensils and apparel clean, her home tidy, her furniture free from dust, all eatables pure, clean and free from dirt. Let her never be lavish in expenditure. Let her cooking be done so nicely that the food may act on the system like a good medicine and keep away disease. 2. Let her keep a proper account of income and expenditure and show it to her husband, use her servantsproperly and see that nothing goes wrong in the house.” (Chapter V-50).   3. “Let the husband and the wife read and recite the Vedas and other Shastras that soon give increase of wisdom, teach the means of acquiring wealth and promote their welfare. Let them also carefully revise what they have studied during their student life and teach the same. As far as a man thoroughly understan...

Bharatavarsha, regards this second stage of a person’s life, namely, the Grahasthasramam, as the sacred field for the practice of noble virtue, Paropakara and Dharma and for the awakening of your true inner spiritual nature. You are Divine Atman. You are not merely a physical creature or a mental-intellectual being but you are a spiritual being far superior to the lesser biological and psychological aspects of your temporary human personality. You are divinities without birth or death. Your eternal, imperishable, immortal, spiritual nature must be realised and experienced in this very life. To attain this wonderful experience the wife and the husband must help each other. They are mutual helpers in this grand adventure of ideal living and spiritual unfoldment. The home is a sacred arena for the attainment of self-conquest and self-mastery which is more thrilling than the scaling of Mount Everest. The daily life of the Grihastha and his Grihalakshmi must be the sublime process of ma...

        IF YOU WANT TO BE REALLY HAPPY......... FOLLOW AHIMSA:-- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   The Hindu doctrine of Ahimsa (Non Violence) is a comprehensive term and emphasises the value of Satya (Truth) Tyaga (Non-Covetousness) and Brahmacharya (Self-restraint).   “Meat diet is prohibited. Do not kill even for sacrifice (Yajna)”. This is the teaching of the Hindu sages. The Statesman sage of Mahabharata, Bhishma censures animal slaughter even for sacrifice (Yajna). The mighty faith of Mahavira, the prophet of Jainism reproclaimed the truth of the ancient Vedic Rishis. Over and over again he taught ‘regard every living being as thy own self and harm no one’. In his last sermon given on the last day of his earthly life Mahavira said “Destroy the bondage of Karma. Be kind to every creature” ‘O Man!’, he said “Thou art thine own friend”. Yes—Man is his own friend, he also is his ow...