... question about the family duties can be answered in this way—the family duties exist so long as one is in the ordinary consciousness of the grahasthan; if the call to a spiritual life comes, whether one keeps to them or not depends partly upon the way of Yoga one follows, partly on one's own spiritual necessity. There are many who pursue inwardly the spiritual life and keep the family duties, not as social ...
... question about the family duties can be answered in this way—the family duties exist so long as one is in the ordinary consciousness of the grihastha; if the call to a spiritual life comes, whether one keeps to them or not depends partly upon the way of Yoga one follows, partly on one's own spiritual necessity. There are many who pursue inwardly the spiritual life and keep the family duties, not as social ...
... question about the family duties can be answered in this way — the family duties exist so long as one is in the ordinary consciousness of the Garhastha, if the call to spiritual life comes, whether one keeps to them or not depends partly upon the way of yoga one follows, partly on one’s own spiritual necessity. There are many who pursue inwardly the spiritual life and keep the family duties, not as social ...
... joined it, the place she had visited with her husband immediately after her marriage in 1921 Nolinida once mentioned that when he left his purbashram he placed the entire situation and his family duties in Sri Aurobindo's hands and His Grace indeed took good care of them. Nolini Kanta Gupta passed away at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram on 7 February 1984 ...
... remains conspicuous in him. A harmonious integration of his character and conduct with those of his ideal wife, queen Sudaksinā, who helped her husband in ways more than one, in all his domestic and family-duties, became conspicuous both in the hermitage of their Guru, the great Vasistha, while serving the cow Nandini to the best of their capacity and also later, when the queen, after return from the hermitage ...
... that later. Page 43 "... You want me to live as an ordinary householder and, I suppose, practise some kind of meditation or sadhana in the time I can spare from my work and my family duties. This would have been possible if what I am called to do were an ordinary sadhana of occasional meditation which would leave the rest of my life untouched. But I wrote to you that I feel called ...
... Mother - II Duty towards the Divine and Others Duty towards the Divine is far more sacred than any social or family duty; it is all the more sacred because within the human collectivity it is almost wholly ignored or misunderstood. One who has given himself to the Divine has no longer any other duty than to make that consecration more and more perfect... perfect. The world and those who live in it have always wanted to put human—social and family—duty before duty to the Divine, which they have stigmatised as egoism. How indeed could they judge otherwise, they who have no experience of the reality of the Divine? But for the divine regard their opinion has no value, their will has no force. These are movements of ignorance, nothing more. You should not attempt... , an illumination of the human consciousness alone can bring about a real amelioration in the condition of humanity. Thus even from the standpoint of human life, it follows logically that the first duty of man is to seek and possess the divine consciousness. 13 June 1937 Page 286 "We would be completely under Thy influence to the exclusion of every other." 1 Each force ...
... blessed Amma in her dream. As the Mother says, One who has given himself to the Divine has no longer any other duty than to make that consecration more and more perfect. The world and those who live in it have always wanted to put human — social and family — duty before the duty to the Divine, which they have stigmatised as egoism. How indeed could they judge otherwise, they who have no experience... relationships.) Among the stories of the family’s womenfolk Amma recounted, one is unforgettable. This lady had attained a high spiritual consciousness even while fulfilling every obligation and duty enjoined upon a householder. One winter day, she was so ill that the doctor told her daughter she had not more than a few hours left. As was the custom, the family carried her cot into the courtyard outside... Amma sprang from the deepest origins of motherhood. Naturally, Akhtar declared her wish to return as soon as circumstances permitted and to stay here as long as she could, and, naturally, her duties to her family did not allow it. It did not really matter — the gods had done their work. * A fast growing obstacle since June-July 1993 was intensified glaucoma combined with memory lapses ...
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