Raja Lakshmi and Gruha Lakshmi

 

You are the epitome of the evolution, you are highest people in the evolution, you are the ones who are looked after by God, you are the most important people. It’s true; and you must be provided for. You should have no problem of money, you should have no problem of housing, you should have no problem of anything.

So, it is She, the Raja Lakshmi who gives you all these thing. Then you have your wife as Gruha Lakshmi. So we have to have a wife as Gruha Lakshmi. These two things one should understand very, very clearly because we confuse them. Wife is the Gruha Lakshmi, is the one, she is the goddess of the household. Now she has to be the goddess also, I mean she just doesn’t become goddess just by becoming. You have to become again. You have to become the Goddess. And, the Goddess of the Gruha Lakshmi is, we can say, that the deity of the Gruha – of the house - is a Gruha Lakshmi.

Now, this deity must become one with the housewife. Then the blessings of the Lakshmi essence is of well-being comes to you. If she is not the Goddess, you will always suffer.

You will always have problems; you will always have all kinds of untold miseries. It is Her blessings which brings you solace, peace and redemption - redemption is the word - of anything. So, that’s why the left Nabhi is very important as we know and that is always bad in the West.

So, I would say that the whole society is responsible for spoiling that because housewife is not respected. First of all, we should blame our society. Our housewives are not respected. Housewife is the one who is a dedicated wife even placed higher than Yatis. Yatis are the highest evolved you can say, Avadhutas, are the highest evolved seers. And, a dedicated wife has got more powers than even a Yati, it is said so.

And, even Krishna was little worried about that. Everybody had to worry; So, the dedicated wife, you see, the Gruha Lakshmi, is such an important thing because she is the essence of this well-being which is peace.

I think I have so far never talked to you about peace. And, peace is only achieved through the Gruha Lakshmi, through your proper adjustment of your spleen I should say. Because spleen is the giver of the blood cells, all right?

It creates the nutrition for the whole body. If there is no peace in that area within us the whole system can go out, because that’s the nourishing centre within us, that’s the nourishing centre. And that centre which nourishes also peace, you see, the peace. You must have heard this “Ya Devi, sarva bhuteshu shanti rupena samstitha”, the Goddess that is the Shanti which is present in every human being as peace. So this peace is only possible if the housewives realise their importance, bear it upon themselves, are forgiving and are redeeming the family life. They have to redeem the family life, and where this gets spoilt the whole system goes out. See, America I went, I found all of them have got left Nabhi, all right, and they are very violent, very violent, extremely violent.

And what I felt that in the beginning the society neglected the housewives. The institution of housewife which is the Goddess. And now the women cannot forgive them. Because the women cannot forgive them, you see, it has become a big struggle there. The children have become violent. I mean, if the housewives are not all right, there will be always violence."

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Diwali Puja Talk: "Awaken the Raja Lakshmi Principle"

Bramham Gardens,London.

October 27th, 1981