QUOTES ON GRIHASTHA - BABA

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BABA'S QUOTATIONS ON Grihastha (householder - family person)Sai Baba Quotes Sai Baba Quotes on Grihastha - householder- family person PART 2If hindrances come, dedicate them too to the Lord, take them quietly as His leela and as His plan; that is the way to follow the grihastha discipline, the path for both men and women. [source:Dharma Vahini, p50.] Love your wife and children and do your duty towards them as a husband and a father. But always hold on to the true values. Do not lose your sense of proportion. [source:Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol X, p216.] Proceed on the path of Love, the path of God... Love will expand your heart so much that you cannot escape from your duties to your kith and kin. Remember always that wife, son, mother -- all kinship is

basically only physical, body-bound, time-limited. [source:Sathya Sai Speaks, Vol X, p216.] When there is understanding and harmony in the family, peace will spread to the community, and from there to the nation and the world. Unity confers joy and peace. [source:Sanathana Sarathi, Vol 34, Jan. 1991, p4.] For one who is unattached, the home is a hermitage. [source:Prashanti Vahini, p46.] The home is the thapovana for attaining non-attachment. [source:Dharma Vahini, p49.] If there is the will and strength to adhere strictly to dharma, if there are no difficulties in acquiring jnana, one can, without entering sanyaasa ashrama, remain as a householder and yet be liberated. [source:Dharma Vahini, p49.] Moved by the desire to cross this ocean of samsara, the husband and the wife must both have harmony of mind. The resolution to reach the goal must be equally strong and steady in both.

Otherwise sanyaasa is the refuge! [source:Dharma Vahini, p50.] All ashramas [are] dependent on the grihastha. It is he who provides food and drink to the rest and fosters them. He promotes the study of the Vedas; he guards the scriptures. So the grihastha ashrama is the most important. ... The grihastha who strictly adheres to his ashrama dharma is worthy of the greatest respect. [source:Prashanti Vahini, p43.] He who earns money by lawful means, he who honours his guests, who serves and pleases his fellowmen, attains liberation along with those learned in the sastras and those who are well established in the fundamental philosophy of the spirit. No one can cross the ocean of birth and death because he is a sanyasi or brahmachari. High ancestry, attainments in asceticism, the status of a monk, profound scholarship - nothing will help, by itself. There must also be the faithful and steady pursuit of swadharma, the study of the scriptures,

like the Veda or the Bhagavad Gita, and a disciplined spiritual life of japam and dhyanam. [source:Prashanti Vahini, p44.]

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