Keeping Peace & Happiness in the home..............

Keeping Peace & Happiness In the Home..........is = to keeping the sanadhana Dharma vibrant and alive.

A very Good one to read for the entire family members.

Happiness is the goal; righteousness, good conduct, remains the directing factors of how you should act and respond to fulfil your Duties. This goal is attainable by following the ten Vedic restraints:-

1. Not harming others by thought, word or deed,

2. Refraining from lying,

3. Not entering into debt,

4. Being tolerant with people and circumstance,

5. Overcoming changeableness and indecision,

6. Not being callous, cruel or insensitive to other people's feelings.

7. Above all, never practice deception.

8. Don't eat too much.

9. Maintain a vegetarian diet for purity and clarity of mind and thoughts.

10. Watch carefully what you think and how you express it through words.

All of these restraints must be captured and practiced within the lifestyle before the natural contentment, the happiness, the pure, serene nature, of the soul can shine forth. Therefore, the practice to attain happiness is to fulfil the rules. Proceed with confidence; failure is an impossibility.


The home is a sanctuary of the entire family. It should have an even higher standard of propriety. When we start being too casual at home and letting off steam, we say things that perhaps we shouldn't. We may think the rest of the family understands, but they don't. Feelings get hurt. We break up the vibration of the home. Young people also let off steam in school, thus inhibiting their own education. They behave in a way in the classroom that they would not in a corporate office, and who is hurt but themselves? It's amazing how quickly people shape up their behaviour when they sign a contract, when they get a job in a corporate office. They read the manual, they obey it and they are nice to everyone. This is the way it should be within the home. The home should be maintained at a higher standard than the corporate office.

The wonderful thing about Hinduism is that we don't let off steam at home; we let our emotions pour out within the Hindu temple. The Hindu temple is the place where we can relate to the Gods and the Goddesses and express ourselves within ourselves. It's just between ourselves and the Deity. In a Hindu temple there may be, all at the same time, a woman worshipper crying in a corner, not far away a young couple laughing among themselves with their children, and nearby someone else arguing with the Gods. The Hindu temple allows the individual to let off steam but it is a controlled situation, controlled by the pujas, the ceremony, the priesthood.

So as to not make more karma in this life by saying things we don't mean, having inflections in our voice that are hurtful to others, we must control the home, control ourselves in the workplace, keep the home at a higher vibration of culture and protocol than the workplace, and include the temple in our lives as a place to release our emotions and regain our composure.

It is making a lot of really bad karma that will come back in its stronger reaction later on in life for someone, the husband or wife or teenager, to upset the vibration of the home because of stress at school or in the workplace. It is counterproductive to work all day in a nice office, control the emotions and be productive, and then go home and upset the vibration within the home.

After all, why is someone working? It's to create the home. Why is someone going to school? It's to eventually create a home. It is counterproductive to destroy that which one works all day to create. That's why It is advisable, the professional mother, the professional father, the professional son and the professional daughter to use in the home the same good manners that are learned in the workplace, and build the vibration of the home even stronger than the vibration of the workplace, so that there is something inviting to come home to.

We have seen so many times, professionals, men and women, behave exquisitely in the workplace, but not so exquisitely at home, upset the home vibration, eventually destroying the home, breaking up the home. And we have seen, through the years, a very unhappy person in retirement, a very bitter person in retirement. No one wants him around, no one wants to have him in their home. Therefore, he winds up in some nursing home, and he dies forgotten.

The Sanadhana Dharma must be alive in the home, must be alive in the office, must be alive in the temple, for us to have a full life. Where, then, do we vent our emotions, where do we let off steam, if not in our own home? The answer is, within the temple....................................

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" Life is beautiful; Living is a gift and make best use of the beauty and the gift every Moment of your life."

Yours in Divine Friendship.

J.K