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place. This I have been trying to do for the last seven or eight years. They are now much more normal. They are brought to a state of normalcy. Strains seem to fade away. This has been again and again tested under the most serious crises which I have undergone.
I came to this because a test must be carried out when a challenge is
thrown. This is for the grihastha. It is slightly different from the yoga for the sannyasi. Sannyasa Yoga is misleading for grihasthas. What is to be removed? Bad conduct! You will see that the great Upanishads were written by people who were not sannyasis. The great Yagnavalkya had two wives, rather than one! One for this world and one for eternity, he said! The sage Vasishta is an eternal grihastha. Now do you see? Where is the necessity for sannyasa? There was therefore a period when people rebelled against sannyasa. Wives were afraid, fathers and mothers were afraid. What I ask
is, can't you practice yoga in your own home? Can't you make your house holy? I would say when a sannyasi enters the house, he pollutes it, in a different way of course! The Laws and the ways of a sannyasi are quite different from those of a grihastha. They have different duties, different responsibilities.
Unless I reach the Divine consciousness I cannot produce a God. This came to me at Calcutta during an Aurobindo lecture some years back. It came to me that if you cannot be gods, at least try to become the fathers and mothers of gods! You all know the story of the rishni garbha, where He was born as Vamana and then again as Sri Krishna. There you have a grihastha trying to be born as a God for the saving of humanity. Therefore it is up to you as Grihasthas to realize your responsibility for yoga, the perfect living for God, by God, in God! Is there any one system which offers this dynamic way for living in that consciousness and for growing in that consciousness? Yoga is going into life to deepen it, to make it more full. God is not so distant as some people think.
Tadejati Tannaijati Taddoore Tadvantike (Isa)
Whether distant or near, He is in each one of you. This dynamic message of the Rishis is with us.