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We need not leave family and go to forest for spiritual effort

You are working day and night for the welfare of your family.  Then, is it not your duty to work for their eternal spiritual welfare?  By this if your family members become devotees, they will not oppose you, instead, they will support you.  Even if you leave the family and go out, you have to live in association of devotees only. Ignorant people leave the house and go to forest where even the normal behavior of human beings is not seen and instead they see the animals and birds, which are always trying and fighting for food. 

Shankara left His mother and did not go to forest.  He went to Shri Govinda Bhagavat Pada to have spiritual association.  Through out His life, He was wandering in the world only with spiritual debates.  I do not understand the significance of forests in the spiritual field. If you say that peaceful atmosphere exists in forests, it is zero. Plus which is the association with devotees and Satguru is far better than zero.  Zero is only better than minus which is the disturbance in the world. 

Therefore, the sages took the advantage of zero and plus by living in forests together. Hence, the association with devotees is main and not mere forest. If you can convert your family members in to devotees, you need not go out. Thus, the obstruction in your spiritual path is removed and simultaneously you have also done the work of God.  It is best because it is double edged due to simultaneous work of your self and God.  In spite of your best efforts, if the family does not change, then only you have to leave the family for the sake of God (Yadahareva virajet….Veda).  But this step should be the last resort and should not be the first step it self.  This problem becomes most serious if God is the contemporary human incarnation. 

Hanuman did not get such problems because His mother and father were divine with full spiritual knowledge and encouraged Hanuman to leave the house to serve Rama.  He was not married and therefore the problem from the side of wife and children did not arise.  But in the case of Gopikas, the problem was very serious because their husbands and relatives were ignorant also.  It was a fire test for them because that was the last worldly birth for those sages. The detachment from the world should be done carefully without haste.  As a last resort only the extreme step of sanyasa should be taken up for the sake of God.

At the Lotus Feet of His Holiness Sri Dattaswami

Anil Antony

www.universal-spirituality.org
Universal Spirituality for World Peace

 


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