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The Lamp of Knowledge and the Duty of the Household

The householder's duty is to cultivate a pure home through discipline, education, and rejecting vice to secure the family's spiritual future.

A long struggle shaped a mindset of distrusting our own voice while overvaluing foreign words. True spiritual attainment comes not from lineage but from personal foundation in knowledge, inquiry, and practice, blessed by the Guru. You must resolve to keep the home free from intoxicants and impure foods like meat, tobacco, and eggs, for these corrupt the environment and damage your children's destiny. Do not give children tea, as it weakens digestion; provide nourishing food like sesame and ghee to energize the mind for study. Parents are sacred; their duty is to nurture the child's intellect with education and culture from within the home. Perform daily disciplines: offer salutations, recite mantras, and maintain customs. Honest work and diligent effort are the basis for livelihood. Embrace your culture fully; do not neglect its practices.

"Provide good food to the children, give them a good education."

"Parents are not just ordinary; they are revered."

Through the subtle Śiva within the body, the student takes the lamp of knowledge, illuminating the path between the self and the divine, where the heart’s desires are transformed at the door of consciousness. In our country, the struggle for freedom has been going on for many years. From 1897 to 1970, it called upon the wise; from 1927 to 1970, it called upon the British as well. As a result, our mindset has become such that we do not trust what we say, foreign... If someone from Europe speaks, it feels as if there is no basis. I want to clarify one thing: we were very proud here, very much so, that the late Gurujī Mādhvānand Purījī Mahārāj Sāhab was born in our community. This is true, but do not nurture any misconception. Always remember one thing: they did not become Vishwaguru because of the Garg community, nor were they confined by the Garg community. If it were because of our lineage, perhaps the path would not have progressed further. But you have relied on your own foundation of knowledge, your own foundation of inquiry, your own foundation of spiritual practice. And with the blessings of our Guru Dādā Guru, the supreme Dādā Guru, we have attained a position as Vishwaguru; the number of us compared to them is not even one percent, nor do they have even one. Keeping this in mind, we must believe that you have illuminated the name of our samāj and you have... The opportunity to become honorable has been presented; on this occasion, I earnestly request Paramān Swāmī Maśvādana Purī Jī Mahārāj Sāhab to bless us all with his words of grace, to guide society, to show how society can grow and how society can become excellent, just as Maharṣi Karva Kṛṣī wished and desired. So, in every village, what should you do and what should you not do to prepare for this? I request you to begin with this, I pray, I invoke blessings so that we all may be benefited. I bow with deep compassion and mercy to the venerable feet of the Blessed One, the refuge of the world, the embodiment of peace, the eternal Śiva, the ocean of mercy extending to all beings. See, saying this, you are the truth; falsehood cannot touch you. If you consume gañjā, guṭkā, tobacco, eggs, and meat, then your children’s destiny is affected. What kind of mind do you give them? How much do you keep for them? What kind of environment do you maintain? So today, when I come on this journey, you should silently resolve in your heart during this Śrāvaṇa month, the first fortnight of Śrāvaṇa, that inside my home... These things will neither come to you nor will you accept them, but do not make a home for them, brother. I am saying this with certainty, it does not matter, your days will come and go, but I feel compassion for the children—why did you give birth to them only to abandon them in the streets? You said earlier that you wrote that grag, guru, brāhmaṇa—these three are not necessary for the sādhus, which you had written. They worked hard, sweating profusely, and brought it to this point, brought it to completion. So, it’s not a big deal. If it’s not a good thing, then it was told to them as something significant. But this mistake is no one’s fault; if you blame the parents for the mistake, then their desire will be hurt. So, if you force a child to drink milk in the morning, it’s not a burden, but don’t give them tea. If children are given tea, their digestive power will start weakening. It’s fine if you yourself avoid it, but a child is a child, and they are like a fragile bolt... If you say "āyegoi," call it "khokā." This one is giving me a khokā. When I need a khokā, it is giving me a khokā. Now, where is the radiance on your face? That porridge is of no use which does not have the essence of rāvan, and that era is of no use which does not have the light of nūr. So... Where is the radiance on your face? That porridge is of no use which is not cooked properly, and that era is of no use which is not progressive. So, you are not asking for goodness because you have not done the work that parents should do. Good company is such that it is like the devotee of the generous Giver. If there is no bravery, then this pride remains because three adorn the nation: the captain, the coward, and the cruel. The captain, the coward, and the cruel adorn the nation. The captain, the coward, and the cruel adorn the nation.... Vidām said, at least feed people 10 grams of tilī, give them coconut, give them ghṛta; this will energize the mind and help them progress in their studies. Therefore, a human being has intellect, but if that intellect is nurtured with education in the lap of the parents, and if the parents provide that education... If they cannot give in the womb, then no one can create a future for them ahead, right? Someone may have taken your subject and created it, but leave aside hope with you. The hope you rely on is like a piece of wood in your hand, from our palm to the wrist. You hope that hope will burn together, but like hope, despair will remain. Therefore, let go of hope. Everything will happen, everything will be attained. Provide good food to the children, give them a good education. And another thing, give to one another, keep doing it. I always say this in discourses, but do it, not just say it. But both mother and father, whether it is the child’s mother or father, son or daughter, you must understand that father and mother are not just ordinary; they are revered. In our culture, in your culture, father and mother are not just parents—they are sacred. The Paramātmā, then the ātman, that dharmātmā—if you commit sin, the body suffers; the ātman becomes sinful. If your family forces you, then you become weak, weak—do not be weak or feeble. You are the wife of the Guru... After them, if one were to cut the thread, then Hari and Ori continued to dance. Who are they? In the vast expanse of the world, Dhyāni Ji is indeed great, living through countless ages. That is why I say, see what our mother has said—our mother is the primal being. You are in the midst of the afternoon... afternoon... To serve mother and father, to serve grandmother more, to serve Gurudev, to keep cow mother in the house—if the house is pure, if Gurudev resides there, that is the third stage, the sārṭar stage. So, what is needed is not to become a ghost of vice, nor to consume eggs, meat, fish, tobacco, or hookah, etc. What should be done about these? Today, within this Guru society, we are seated on the throne of planetary agriculture. I bless all of you, and you must accept this; it will be instilled within you. For those who do not accept it, let them be left aside. Why all this? It is because this is our bond. In this together, you are the guru and must remain the guru, but you will have to acknowledge that you are the guru—that is the point, you see. If there is a need to teach, then for that purpose, and if you have made a mistake after my words, then it is a mistake. From today onwards, you will raise your voice boldly and speak out. I am telling you, the music will improve, and the country will also benefit. So, what will you do for this? To embrace one’s own culture again is what is meant here. When the braid is cut, when the turban is removed, then in the context of the evīṭaṇṭ cigarette, it is said that if you have the evīṭaṇṭ here, the braid must be there, the turban must be there, the clothes must be there, the customs must be maintained, but the bell should not be rung. As for livelihood, the honest workers kept increasing their efforts; for employment, they kept working diligently. Education should be received at home; education comes from within your own home, from your wife and your husband, from your children rising early to chew tulasī leaves and offering salutations to the sun’s rays. And reciting the Gāyatrī mantra, reading Anumāda Chāriśā, and reciting one śloka of Ukhṇī Saṅkhā, and then having breakfast, and after that going there—see, your body will become like the rays of the sun. In the land of the green Muslims, if they do this daily there... Never miss it; make a firm resolve. Whether it is the masjid or the majjit, if you miss one day, it’s not a problem. If you miss two days, then from one sūtra to another sūtra, if you haven’t gone, then stand in front of the majjit, in front of the bāktēśan with a whip, and ask, "Why didn’t you come?" Then go and make a firm resolve in the majjit. Bring a pūjā. In these times, I have been wandering in ignorance, delusion, and weakness. Presentation, presentation...

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