Success in Life

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The Second Stage: Married Life

 

Having already created a firm and ideal foundation, the student enters

into the second stage of life, the householder's life. One is not

merely entering into a physical partnership with another physical

creature, is not entering into a social relationship with another

family, but is entering into a spiritual partnership with another soul

in order to fulfill a mutually shared divine destiny. So that the

relationship between husband and wife is essentially a spiritual

partnership between two souls. Your spouse is to you everything:

companion, friend, consoler, helper and partner in this great

spiritual adventure. Such is the ideal and total concept of this

relationship.

 

With such an understanding, the home becomes not only a place for

living the normal worldly existence, but a place of worship and

devotion. Daily worship, helping those in need, and honouring the

guest (especially the chance visitor who happens to be at your door at

the time of food) become primary duties of householders.

 

Another aspect of the householder's duty is to evolve between

themselves reciprocally ideal behaviour of mutual love, honouring each

other's individual freedom. Such an atmosphere becomes the ideal

ground for nurturing the new generation. They find that between their

parents exists a beautiful relationship of harmony, love, mutual

respect and tolerance, which creates an ideal atmosphere for their

growth. Through their personal relationship the parents place before

the children an exemplary way of conducting themselves which becomes

the first educational process of the child. Home is, therefore, the

nursery of the nation, nursery of the world. Providing an ideal

setting and an ideal atmosphere for the generation of tomorrow is an

important duty of the married couple.