Page 125 - Wisdom Unfurled

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Family life is no barrier for Realization
In this context the Master reassures the ordinary grihastas that the family life is not a barrier for realizing the Highest as God is not a forest dweller, rather it is the grihastashrama which has produced saints of very high order like Kabir and His own Master Revered. Lalaji Maharaj. We know from our experience the proof of this statement lies in the very life of the Master Himself and in the lives of the many intimate disciples of the Master. The family life and its challenges form the ideal training ground for the aspirant; the taunts and rebukes of near and dear, the miseries and sufferings one encounters in it constitute the penances and austerities which smoothen our path towards the final state of Realization. We learn to love and sacrifice in the family surroundings and this same love grows, crosses its own boundaries and turns into universal love when we remove the brokenness from it as He says in one of His messages(SDG pg37).