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K. Sadananda • March 7, 2002 


Shree Deepak

Samsaraa does not mean just wife and children.  Any wrong attachment 
can result in samsaara.  One can give up everything but that does not 
make him detached - one can get attached even to a koupiinam or stone 
where one sleeps.  What is required is correct understanding. 
VishishhTadvaita emphasizes the fact that Lord Naarayana is 
antaryaamin - or pervades everything - chara and achara - movable and 
immovables.  There  is no place where He is not as Prahallada teaches 
his father.

Hence we need to understand two facts as we live through this life - 
one is our temporal relationships and the other is our relationship 
with the Lord.  I am a husband, wife, son, father, friend, neighbor, 
employee etc and these relationships are temporal.  When I encounter 
my wife I am husband and when I encounter my son or daughter I am a 
father. In my office I am employer or employee etc. These are 
temporal relationships.  But my relationship with the Lord is not 
temporal since there is no set up where He is not there.  I cannot be 
alone anywhere- even in me He is antaryaami or indweller.  Hence it 
is more a fundamental relationship. I am only a husband in the 
temporary set up when I encounter my wife.  But I am a devotee all 
the time since I am encountering the Lord in all set-ups. If one 
examines this correctly - I am husband plus a devotee also, since in 
the set-up where I encounter my wife, wife is there plus the Lord. 
So the total relationship should be Wife + a devotee, Husband+ a 
devotee, Son + a devotee, Friend + a devotee, employee + a devotee 
and in front of the Lord I am devotee + a devotee! .

Husband + a devotee becomes a devoted husband - son plus a devotee 
becomes a devoted son .  Hence my relationships become - a devoted 
husband, a devoted wife, a devoted son, a devoted student, a devoted 
employee -a devoted devotee too,  etc provided I do not loose sight 
of the presence of the Lord in all these encounters.  A truly devoted 
husband is not a henpecked husband - he is devoted to Lord in the 
form of the wife and does his obligatory duties with full 
understanding of husband-ship.  In fact Lord has provided a 
environment that is most suitable to our vaasanaas to exhaust them 
with proper understanding.  If I can see the Lord everywhere and 
every set up how can be greedy, how can I be mean or and how can I be 
a bad husband!

Hence it is not running away from relationships but establishing the 
right relationships with proper understanding and that is what is 
involved in all relationships.

If acts properly with correct understanding that Lord is there 
everywhere, then life becomes a beautiful sport with the Lord.

Hari Om!
Sadananda




>Namo Narayana....
>Shree Sita Ramaya Namaha...
>
>My humble pranaams to all Respected Vaishnavas,
>
>For someone who has just entered the Grhastha Ashrama, i find that there are
>many many obstacles to the spiritual path. 
>Keeping oneself disciplined in Mind, word and action gets much harder.  It
>is funny because the grhastha ashrama is supposed to be helping one in the
>spiritual path...
>
>How do i not get attached to someone i have to spend my life with...what
>should be the boundaries to the attachment...where does one draw the line...
>
>I beg the Vaishnavas to advise me and please bless me so that i can continue
>on the spiritual path with greater focus and faith....
>
>Vaishnava Dasanudasanudasa
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