Grahasthasramam : ( 24/05/2013. )

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...