|| Shri Hari ||

Duties in a Household Life

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Question -  If we have no son,  who will offer us oblation and water;  and how shall we meet with a good fate without the offering of water and oblation ?   

Answer - continued..... 

He who desires to receive the offering of water and oblation,  wants to follow the cycle of birth and death, because he is born somewhere,  then and then only he will have  a desire to receive the offering of oblation and water.  If he is not born, why should he expect the offering of oblation and water ?   

It is totally wrong that a man does not attain salvation without a son.  If the offspring led a man to salvation, the eleven young ones of a pig and a hundred and eight young ones of a snake would lead the pig and the snake to salvation.   Similarly the larger number of children should lead their parents to salvation.  But it does not happen so.  

A man should be engaged in god’s adoration by depending on Him whether he has offspring or not.  If a person can’t renounce the desire of having offspring,  he (she) should regard Rama or Krishna as his son and should love him as his own son.   He (Lord Rama or Krishna) will serve him so sincerely that a real son can’t serve him. He will make his father’s life successful,  here as well as, here after.  

  

(to be continued....... ) 

 ‒From the book ‘Jeevan ka Kartavya' by Swami Ramsukhdasji