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THE PATH BEYOND SORROW

Chapter 9: Yoga In The Home

10.Some Concluding Remarks

 

 

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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 God—ever and ever.

Items which can go into the family schedule are some moments of calm reflection and exchange of thought between members of the family, some moments of common spiritual reading, moments of hymns and songs together. All families should have a daily custom of singing together, hymns and sacred songs learned by heart.

Always have the principle of offering food to God first and then alone partaking of it—the saying of grace.

While doing her housework, the wife should dedicate everything that she does to God—washing the dishes, mopping the floor, preparing meals, everything. She should say, “O Lord, for Thy love, for Thy glory—this is worship”. And the hand should do its task with love, so that you know the heart and the hand are both dedicating to God.

Then, develop an ideal relationship with your neighbour. You must be a good neighbour and all the family members should try to develop themselves, into good samaritans. If there is any distress, if there is any opportunity to help, even if help is not asked, if you feel that a certain person is in difficulty, without revealing yourself, you should help. There are various ways, if you want to exercise the spirit of charity and the ideal of the good samaritan. You can do it, even today. These things should always be uppermost in your life. So, you worship God and fulfil the ideal of Yoga, of compassion and goodness and selflessness, even through your dealings with your fellow-beings.

Let the week-ends for the family be periods of recreation as well as spiritual re-creation. Why should there be a craze to go somewhere on week-ends? Why should children want to get away? If the home atmosphere has become so ideal, so beautiful, so full of sweetness and happiness, then on week-ends, no one in the family will want to go anywhere at all. You will love every minute you live in the home, within the family, and you will not want to get away. When the family atmosphere is totally vitiated and there is no faith in God, there is no faith in His presence, when there is no devotion, when there is no love and charity, no understanding between husband and wife, between parents and children, then the children have no good example, and when this is the case, they become disobedient and careless. But if the home is ideal, with a harmonious atmosphere, with love for God as the centre of your family life, then not one of the family will want to get away from home; and the time spent at home will be solid week-ends full of spiritual gain where you put by for yourself wealth that no moth can eat away, no rust can cause to perish, and no thief can take from you. Even nuclear bombs cannot take away the spiritual wealth gained thus from living a Yogic life.

That, I think, sums up, more or less, the whole structure of a Yogic way of life in the home and in the family.

 

Next: Chapter 10: The Law Of Karma And Reincarnation

 

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    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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