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Keep attachments to a bare minimum. You have certain work to do among these relationships, which God has given according to your karmas, which are the reactions of the past actions. These relationships have come as wife, husband, child, friend, and so on. Give to them whatever is necessary – pay your debts. Serve all men, for God is in all men, and do not forget the Almighty life sustainer. Kirpal Singh
The goodness of the Gurmukh is not his property, his kith and kin, and the environmental favour, but how he has developed those links in favour of his Master. (Generally the man thinks he is good because he is having some property and has done something for his kith and kin, but the Gurmukh develops all who are in relation with him and brings them back to the fold of the Master.) This is his real property and heritage which he pays back to his Master. * The relation of both, wife and husband, is to become Conscious Co-workers of the Divine Plan and to help their children in the same direction. To lose the faith in the interest of their worldly demands and wishes keeps them far away from the truthful life and the real relationship between wife and husband and their children. The result is confusion, misbehaviour, and lack of confidence in each other, which further brings in the diseases of the mind and so on. * He does not demand anything for his kith and kin from his Master, but develops them through right understanding, and both would like to develop each other. He does not believe in hoarding but believes in spending in the Mission of the Master. * Two people are brought together by the unseen hand of God. Whom God unites, let no earthly power disunite. You are one soul in two bodies. Be like one candle light; be the same light in two forms. If one is asked a question, both should give the same answer. This can be done by those whose hearts are together. This beautiful union on the physical plane is, as yet, only a glimpse of the higher union, the everlasting marriage between the soul and God. Kirpal Singh * When the head of the family earns the livelihood through unfair means, those who partake become worldly, and he who brings in meets the reaction. The Gurmukh is the living example of pious living in the world. In the world he undertakes a good business and helps others to pay off their debts of previous karma. * In his personal and family life he adopts a true way of life, means he does not lead his life beyond necessities. When the attention moves beyond needs, it bears reaction. So he makes the best use of right understanding, blessed by his Master to develop his family members on this pattern. When the right understanding is multiplied in the house, the house is blessed with multiple fortunes. Such a home becomes a best performance of his Master's wish. |