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THE HOME IS ENJOYMENT OF LIFE:
WHY SHOULD I FORSAKE MY HOME AND WANDER IN THE FOREST?
IF BRAHMA HELPS ME TO REALIZE TRUTH,
VERILY I WILL FIND BOTH BONDAGE AND DELIVERANCE
IN THE HOME.
He is a tremendous lover of home. He says: Don't go from your home, and don't become a wanderer, don't become a renunciate. Remain with your family. Don't change the given situation; accept it. Whatsoever God has given is good: accept it in deep gratitude don't reject it. Rejecting it, you are rejecting God Himself. The mother, the father, the brother, the wife, the children -- whatsoever has naturally happened, allow it to be there. Don't try to create an artificial situation, because through the artificial you will never reach to the natural. Nobody is born a renunciate, nobody is born a monk. Everybody is born in a family, in a community; everybody is born out of a mother and a father; everybody is born in a milieu of love. The monk is a human invention, the family is divine.
HE IS DEAR TO ME INDEED
WHO CAN CALL BACK THE WANDERER TO HIS HOME.
And Kabir says: Whoever helps the wanderer to come back home is dear to me.
He must have loved me tremendously if he was here. I have called many wanderers, and I have stopped many potential wanderers from becoming wanderers. I have helped them to be THERE -- wherever they are; not to change the outward circumstance, but to change yourself. Changing the circumstance is a deception of the mind. It is not going to help. Change your consciousness.
HE IS DEAR TO ME INDEED WHO CAN CALL BACK THE WANDERER TO HIS HOME: back to the world, back to the family back to love, back to relationships.
IN THE HOME IS THE TRUE UNION,
IN THE HOME IS ENJOYMENT OF LIFE:
WHY SHOULD I FORSAKE MY HOME AND WANDER IN THE FOREST?
IF GOD HELPS ME TO REALIZE TRUTH,
VERILY I WILL FIND BOTH BONDAGE AND DELIVERANCE
IN THE HOME.
Yes, home is a bondage, and home is a deliverance too. It depends on you. If you are against the home, it will appear like a bondage; if you are not against it, it becomes your deliverance. It is basically your attitude which determines
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