To Steve on family

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Steve wrote:

The Master Course of Himalayan Academy by Satguru Sivaya

Subramuniyaswami

Sloka 79 from Dancing with SivaWhat Is the Hindu Family Structure?The

main Hindu social unit is the joint family, usually consisting

ofseveral generations living together under the guidance of the

fatherand mother. Each joint family is part of a greater body called

theextended family...A joint family lives under one roof... The joint

family is founded on selfless sharing, community ownership and the

fact that each member's voice and opinion is important...

Dear Steve,

 

Wow! I love Subramuniyaswami. I have Dancing with Ganesha, but it is

in storage in Oregon (I am beginning to feel like this is a mantra of

sorts...). You are really going at it ~ doing all the sadhana with the

Devi Mandir Group and also the Master Class from the Himalayan

Academy. I love the books that Subramuniyaswami wrote, and there is

still one I want to get that is about how life started on earth (I

can't remember the name right now). For a long while I got "Hinduism

Today," the Himalayan Academy magazine. Sometime I will

again, as I loved it very much.

 

We used to have extended families in Western culture, in the "olden"

days, even in the early days of America. Where did it go ~ this idea

of families sharing space, spirituality, the ups and downs of ife? I

think industrialization had something to do with it, and the fact

that this extended family idea is not one that is so highly and

formally embraced by all the differing Western spirituality belief

systems. But I think the 1950's really did us in. This supposed ideal

time in our nation's history was when the focus on the "nuclearn

family" became so highly regarded, with everyone separated behind

their own little white picket fences.

 

Would that we did have the type of family described in the quote above. Jai Maa ~ Linda

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In a message dated 12/2/04 9:02:09 A.M. Mountain Standard Time, nierika (AT) aol (DOT) com writes:

I love the books that Subramuniyaswami wrote, and there is still one I

want to get that is about how life started on earth (I can't remember

the name right now).

Namaste,

It is the Lemurian Scrolls.

Kanda