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Silence Speaks
others. This will be a source of satisfaction and peace to him as well. One should lead a simple and pious life absorbed in constant Divine Consciousness, discharging properly at the same time all his worldly responsibilities and duties. There is not the least justification for any one to flee away from home in utter disregard of his worldly duties, and wander about without any definite aim or purpose. As a matter of fact, even in that state of so- called vairagya, one is seldom free from feelings of worldliness. If a grihastha who has ignored God can be presumed to be deceiving God, the so-called vairagi will prove a worse sinner. Saint Kabir has aptly remarked:—
―God remains twenty paces off from a Brahmachari and thirty paces off from a sannyasi; whereas He resides within a grihastha who entertains Him in his heart.‖
We should really try to be with God and in God all the time, and never be away from Him even for a moment. When we come up to this state we are all the time in a state of vairagya. Thus, attachment
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