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THE PATH BEYOND SORROW

Chapter 9: Yoga In The Home

4.The Home—A Sacred Place

 

 

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The home should be known to be a sacred place. The home is to be a sort of counterbalancing factor for all the bustle, for all the restless activity, of your daily professional life. The moment you leave home and go into your professional activity, your whole mind, your entire personality, is brought out. You are to be active. You are to give your attention to things of this world and, therefore, your recollectedness is lost. You are brought away from your centre so that your inner spiritual closeness to God is completely lost when you go into your professional activity—your day-to-day life. Now, when you come back home, the home life is meant to be an effective counterbalancing factor. In the home you are “Self-centred”, you are recollected, you are in God. So the entire atmosphere of the home should be pervaded by a sense of God’s presence. You should feel God in every nook and corner of your home. It should be a place where, the moment you enter, the mind, which in the morning was brought out forcibly due to the secular, professional activities, is once again brought back into its own. It finds rest and peace in God. God should be the centre of the home. You should not feel, “This house is mine. This home is mine”; but rather, “This is the abode of God, and here I am privileged to pause, and here I am privileged to work out my salvation, work out my liberation”. This should be the attitude of both husband and wife, and it is in this attitude that the children should be raised.

The home atmosphere should not be made vulgar and the home should not be a place which is sort of a show-piece, where you just show off your opulence or show off your superior tastes to others or show off your pride of possessions—it should not be that. Neither should it be a place where a sensual type of entertainment is indulged in, with people throwing cocktail parties, with people getting half-drunk, with jazzy music, with noise and bustle and card-play. The sanctity of the home atmosphere, the sacredness and the holiness of the home atmosphere, is of paramount importance. The home should always be kept sacred. This is essential. If the spiritual atmosphere of the home also is destroyed, then how can you find your spiritual centre? If outside there is nothing to be found, and when you come home, it is worse than the outside, then how can you build a spiritual life? This way your spiritual life is destroyed by your own hand and this should not be.

However, this spiritualization of the home atmosphere should not be done in an eccentric fashion or in the manner of a fad or a fetish, marking you off as a superior person, way above your neighbours, but it should be graciously and simply accomplished with a spiritual naturalness adorned with humility and with thanks to God for the gift of this awareness. In the home, there should be nothing secular. In the home, everything should be spiritual. In the home, everything should be Yogic. There is enough of materialism, enough of forgetfulness and heedlessness of God all around you outside; so why should you add to it and let the home atmosphere also become vitiated? Keep God intact in the home. Let every atom in the atmosphere of the home be full of holiness, and do all that you can in order to maintain the atmosphere of the home. Keep it sacred. Keep it sanctified. Always feel the home to be a place where you can get very close to God.

 

Next: Chapter 9: Yoga In The Home, 5.Spiritual Guidance to Children

 

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Chapter 9

 

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, The Path Beyond Sorrow Chapter 9: Yoga In The Home
    Sri Swami Sivananda, The Path Beyond Sorrow Chapter 9: Yoga In The Home, We take up now the vital subject of how, being in the midst of worldly activities one may yet fulfil the supreme purpose, the spiritual purpose of life on earth. While both the secular life and the spiritual life are a part of you, it is true that the spheres of the two are different, in the sense that the secular life has its sphere outside of yourself and the spiritual life has its sphere within yourself. But then, your spiritual life does have some expression outwardly also, and wherever you are, there your spiritual life has to be. If you are in a family set-up and living the work-a-day life in the busy field of worldly activity, then your spiritual life must be there. This interior life cannot be created by bringing about visible external changes in yourself or in your circumstances at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, The Path Beyond Sorrow Chapter 9: Yoga In The Home, 1.A Story From the Life of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
    Sri Swami Sivananda, The Path Beyond Sorrow Chapter 9: Yoga In The Home, 1.A Story From the Life of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, In various ways great Masters have tried to bring home this truth to seekers and an incident comes to my minda very familiar story and not too ancient. It was in the life of Sri Ramakrishna, the spiritual preceptor of the famous Swami Vivekananda. In his early life, Sri Ramakrishna was a priest in a Hindu temple in Calcutta, then the Capital City of India. This temple was founded by a lady who was something of a small queen. The wife of a native ruler and a lady of immense riches, she had the temple built with a fabulous sum of money and endowed it with rich lands. She was a very devout lady in spite of her great wealth and affluence at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, The Path Beyond Sorrow Chapter 9: Yoga In The Home, 2.The Four Main Aspects of an Individuals Life
    Sri Swami Sivananda, The Path Beyond Sorrow Chapter 9: Yoga In The Home, 2.The Four Main Aspects of an Individuals Life, Of course, we take it for granted that the first thing is to be conscious of ones purpose in life. Ever be conscious of why you are living. Ever be conscious of what purpose you are to fulfil in life. That is the most important thing. Know that the whole meaning of life is the utilizing of its every moment to attain the supreme purpose at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, The Path Beyond Sorrow Chapter 9: Yoga In The Home, 3.The Sanctity of Marriage
    Sri Swami Sivananda, The Path Beyond Sorrow Chapter 9: Yoga In The Home, 3.The Sanctity of Marriage, In various ways great Masters have tried to bring home this truth to seekers and an incident comes to my minda very familiar story and not too ancient. It was in the life of Sri Ramakrishna, the spiritual preceptor of the famous Swami Vivekananda. In his early life, Sri Ramakrishna was a priest in a Hindu temple in Calcutta, then the Capital City of India. This temple was founded by a lady who was something of a small queen. The wife of a native ruler and a lady of immense riches, she had the temple built with a fabulous sum of money and endowed it with rich lands. She was a very devout lady in spite of her great wealth and affluence at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, The Path Beyond Sorrow Chapter 9: Yoga In The Home, 4.The HomeA Sacred Place
    Sri Swami Sivananda, The Path Beyond Sorrow Chapter 9: Yoga In The Home, 4.The HomeA Sacred Place, The home should be known to be a sacred place. The home is to be a sort of counterbalancing factor for all the bustle, for all the restless activity, of your daily professional life. The moment you leave home and go into your professional activity, your whole mind, your entire personality, is brought out. You are to be active. You are to give your attention to things of this world and, therefore, your recollectedness is lost. You are brought away from your centre so that your inner spiritual closeness to God is completely lost when you go into your professional activityyour day-to-day life. Now, when you come back home, the home life is meant to be an effective counterbalancing factor. In the home you are Self-centred, you are recollected, you are in God at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, The Path Beyond Sorrow Chapter 9: Yoga In The Home, 5.Spiritual Guidance to Children
    Sri Swami Sivananda, The Path Beyond Sorrow Chapter 9: Yoga In The Home, 5.Spiritual Guidance to Children, The training of the children comes next. It is a great and onerous responsibility of the parents. You are only the trustees of these souls and have no permanent connection with themthe children whom God has given to youand you should try to do what you can in the little time they pass through your hands to touch them and make their lives more radiant for their having come to you. Therefore, the proper training of children is one of the most onerous duties, and if this is done in the attitude of being privileged to be the parent of His own children, then everything you do towards your children becomes part of your Karma Yoga, becomes part of your own spiritual unfoldment. For, by giving to them the spiritual impulse, the spiritual life, by your own ideal lives, you become the partaker of Gods life, because you fulfil the great gospel of Karma Yoga, viz., selfless activity without attachment, with only love in your heart, in order to do some good to others. If you train them along the path which will take them to their eternal welfare, to true blessedness, then that is the highest bestowal that one person can confer upon another in this earth-plane at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, The Path Beyond Sorrow Chapter 9: Yoga In The Home, 6.A Spiritual Daily Routine for the Householder
    Sri Swami Sivananda, The Path Beyond Sorrow Chapter 9: Yoga In The Home, 6.A 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 daya visit of someone, a telephone call, an invitation to go out with someoneevery 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 and also in some other books. The children should also be trained in this way at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, The Path Beyond Sorrow Chapter 9: Yoga In The Home, 7.Dynamic SpiritualityRemembering God
    Sri Swami Sivananda, The Path Beyond Sorrow Chapter 9: Yoga In The Home, 7.Dynamic SpiritualityRemembering God, Throughout the house you may have any number of external symbols which bring to you the thought of God. Perhaps tastefully framed mottoes: ALL LIFE IS SACRED, GOD IS HERE NOW, BE GOOD, DO GOOD, BE KIND, BE PURE, SPEAK THE TRUTH, NEVER HURT THE FEELINGS OF OTHERS, SEE GOD IN ALL FACES, TRUTH IS GOD, GOD IS LOVE, etc. And pictures. Every day, when the householder starts from home for his work, he should have five minutes of prayer, when he should say: Now, Oh Lord, from this Blessed Abode of Thine, where I am privileged to pass my days, I go out to worship Thee through my bodily activities, through my work. May all that I do today with body and mind be accepted by Thee as my worship, as my Karma Yoga, as my dynamic prayer. Only after uttering this little prayer should the householder leave his home at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, The Path Beyond Sorrow Chapter 9: Yoga In The Home, 8.The Curse of Fashion
    Sri Swami Sivananda, The Path Beyond Sorrow Chapter 9: Yoga In The Home, 8.The Curse of Fashion, Along with all this, live a simple life. It is in the simple life that mind moves upon a straight path without wavering. Whereas, it is dispersed and scattered if life is made too complex and too much filled with an accumulation of objects. Have a simple life and do not be too concerned about your physical existence, about care of your body, about your beauty, your dress at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, The Path Beyond Sorrow Chapter 9: Yoga In The Home, 9.The Value of Time
    Sri Swami Sivananda, The Path Beyond Sorrow Chapter 9: Yoga In The Home, 9.The Value of Time, Realize the value of time. Utilize every minute, and with great niggardliness, try to salvage every minute and add it to your spiritual life. Do not have the habit of gossipgenteel gossip. It is one of the social qualificationswhen two persons are together, they must have some gentle back-chat about a third person. If that is done, you are destroying your own life, you are wasting time. Life is time, and time is verily life. If you just fritter away precious minutes and hours in loose chatter and gossip and a little genteel scandal-mongering, it means you are robbing yourself of the most precious thing in lifethe rare opportunity to attain God at energyenhancement.org

  • Sri Swami Sivananda, The Path Beyond Sorrow Chapter 9: Yoga In The Home, 10.Some Concluding Remarks
    Sri Swami Sivananda, The Path Beyond Sorrow Chapter 9: Yoga In The Home, 10.Some Concluding Remarks, Develop virtue as a rule in your life. Let virtue be the criterion with which you judge all your thoughts, all your actions, all your speech. Is it virtuous or not? That should be the yardstick to guide you in your life. And the principle should be to move towards Godever and ever at energyenhancement.org

 

 

 
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