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THE WAY OF LIFE
example. Other people will get a magnificent example or idea. Do you really desire to establish such a lofty ideal ? If you cannot realise those ideals who else can ? You please tell me, which other society shall I approach and exhort to realise those ideals.
You have caused a great loss to the Dharmashasan by neglecting these fundamental principles of Dharma. You are polluting that Dharma which you desire to pursue and with the help of which you have to seek spiritual elevation. In fact, you are deceiving that Dharma. You have the faith that you will attain spiritual welfare if you study the ordinary principles of the Grihasthadharma; and if you act according to them after fully understanding them. If your wife is chaste, pure, gentle, noble and cultured and if your children also are noble, pure, radiant and possess other such virtues as politeness, you will enjoy peace and felicity in your life. You can live a life of perfect felicity and serenity. If you attain mental peace and felicity, what else do you desire ? If you do not have peace and felicity, it is of no use even if you attain worldly prosperity. You ask affluent people who are unhealthy, unhappy and agitated, "Are you happy ?" and hear their reply.
MAKE YOUR FAMILY A CULTERED ONE
It is absolutely necessary that a man's mind must be free from all anxieties and worries if he should endeavour to achieve spiritual welfare and purification. Man can carry out his spiritual austerities only with a serene and wholesome life. Man's mind remains peaceful and wholesome only when he has a cultured and congenial family. It is not easy to keep the mind peaceful and wholesome if man has to live in the midst of an uncongenial family.
From the Audience : We can get a cultured and congenial family only by the effect of our punya or merit. Is it not so ?
Maharajashri : All kinds of happiness emerge only from your punya or merit. Would you not carry out the endeavour to earn merit? Without merit can you attain wealth and prosperity? Then, for what purpose should you put forth your efforts?
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