Sri RamaKrishna on How to lead a householder's life

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MASTER: " They should try to perform their duties in a detached way. Before

you break the jack-fruit open, rub your hands with oil, so that the sticky

milk will not smear them.The maidservant in a rich man's house performs all

her duties, but her mind dwells on her home in the country. This is an

example of doing duty in a detached way. You should renounce the world only

in mind. But a sannyasi should renounce the world both inwardly and

outwardly. "

 

BRAHMO: " What is the meaning of the 'end of enjoyments'? "

 

MASTER: " I mean the enjoyment of 'woman and gold'.It is risky to put a

typhoid patient in a room where pitchers of water and jugs of pickled

tamarind are kept.Most people don't feel any longing for God unless they

have once passed through the experience of wealth, name, fame, creature

comforts, and the like, that is to say, unless they have seen through these

enjoyments. "

 

BRAHMO: " Who is really bad, man or woman? "

 

MASTER: " As there are women endowed with vidyasakti, so also there are women

with avidyasakti. A woman endowed with spiritual attributes leads a man to

God, but a woman who is the embodiment of delusion makes him forget God and

drowns him in the ocean of worldliness.

 

" This universe is created by the Mahamaya1 of God. Mahamaya contains both

vidyamaya, the illusion of knowledge, and avidyamaya, the illusion of

ignorance.

 

Through the help of vidyamaya one cultivates such virtues as the taste for

holy company, knowledge, devotion, love, and renunciation. Avidyamaya

consists of the five elements and the objects of the five senses—form,

flavour, smell, touch, and sound. These make one forget God. "

 

Source: THE GOSPEL OF RAMAKRISHNA

 

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