"Enter Grahastasramam"-2.

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 manifesting their inner divinity and expressing it
outwardly through thought, speech and action. Lead this divine life. Truth, purity and universal
love and compassion constitute the basic foundation of such divine life. The essence of divine life is
selflessness and Seva, devotion and daily worship, concentration and regular meditation and to
discriminate between the real and the unreal, the divine and the undivine, between the spiritual and
the unspiritual.
Blessed couple! May you both lead such a divine life! Feel that your house is the abode of
God. Make God the most important factor in your life. Give God the central place in your daily life.
God who is the Lord of the universe is the master of your home also. Feel it a sacred privilege to be
servants at His feet. Tell Him with deep feelings, “I am Thine, all is Thine, nothing belongs to me.
Thou art everything O Lord. Bless me to worship You and to serve You in and through all beings.”
Feel God’s divine presence always in your home. Feel that you are doing everything to please Him,
to glorify Him.Make your home the holy house of prayer. Both of you must worship together, pray
together and glorify God together. Uphold Dharma. Love and respect each other. Evolve the life of
harmony, beauty and mutual regard. Develop noble character. Let moderation and a wise
self-control be the keynote of your life in all things. Create a sublime spiritual atmosphere within
the home. Shine with lofty virtue. Let your life be an inspiration to other young couples. Make such
an atmosphere at home that one who enters your homemust feel at once inspired and elevated. Such
is true success in life. In such a home Satya-Yuga will prevail. Kali-Yuga cannot enter there. Such a
home is Vaikuntha on earth. Such is the glory and greatness of Grihasthashrama.
Always regard your married life in its correct perspective and recognise its sanctity,
spirituality and divinity. This is the wisdom. This is the way to joy, peace and blessedness. This is
the secret of spiritualising all your activities and living Yoga in daily life. Thus the home-life will
become the gateway to immortality, spiritual perfection and divine realisation. Verily,
Grihasthashrama, when it is rightly understood and nobly lived, becomes the great portal to eternal
blessedness and liberation. Our salutations and adorations to ideal married couples who are visible
divinities and worthy of our worship. In that home where dwell the Pativrata Nari and her loyal and
devoted husband like Bhagavati Mother Sita and Maryada-Purushottama Lord Rama there the
Devatas from Devaloka come to offer worship and feel themselves sanctified. All the sacred rivers
like Ganga, Yamuna and Sarasvati abide in such an ideal home. That home is sacred like Varanasi,
Prayaga, Ayodhya, Mathura and Dwaraka. May this world be blessed by such ideal married
couples, and such sacred houses of ideal Grahasthasramam!