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 ...