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| | Grihastha dharma |
 | | Grihasthas must support the religion by building and maintaining temples, monasteries and other religious institutions, supporting the monastics and disseminat ing the teachings. | | | Grihastha dharma: Varna Dharma Ð The Dharma according to the Caste | | | á grihastha : ( Sanskrit) Householder, from 24 to 48. |
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| | Offense Two |
| | Particularly the grihastha must follow the rules of his varna in performing his worldly activities of raising family and relating with the rest of society, but at the same time, according to his means, he must worship Krishna. | | | Thus the grihastha, though following the rules and customs prescribed in his caste, will give up all those rules which include demigod worship, aimed at sense gratification, and hold firmly to the path of bhakti, worshiping Him alone in all cases where worship is prescribed. | | | And he must respect and follow these rules as long as he has not come to the platform where the rules hamper his progress in worshiping Krishna. |
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http://mahamantrayoga.gaurangapada.com/offense-two.htm
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| | WVA |
| | The grihastha should not run after money but he should be happy with whatever he will get and try to develop his spiritual consciousness. | | | The prime duty of a brahmachari is to serve the Spiritual Master with strong Vaishnava faith and without duplicity. | | | But if he sees that the sons are not willing to do that, then he must merely get them married in such a way as to become free from those responsibilities. |
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| | The Hindu : Ancient wisdom for modern times |
| | It is regarded as a means to spiritual glory, a sine qua non for the development of lineage — a necessary link between the dead past and an unborn future that must come alive to be undertaken as part of spiritual duty with devotion ( shraddha) to perpetuate the family tradition. | | | It points out that Hinduism is more a way of life than a specific religion and describes four stages of life — Brahmachari (student), Grihastha (householder), Vanaprastha (forest dweller or hermit in semi-retirement), Sannyasi (the renounced one in full retirement) — and says that the dharma of each is different. | | | Deva Yagna: (deity worship) — The daily worship and pooja to Ganapathi, Kula Devata and Ishta Devata. |
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http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/mp/2003/02/10/stories/2003021001630300.htm
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| | Sadhana The Spiritual Way by Swami Krishnananda |
| | That also is the meaning of the apparently differentiated lives of the brahmacharin, grihastha, vanaprastha and sanyasin. | | | These are some of the traditional features of a spiritual life - the methods of the harmonising of the principles of dharma, artha, kama and moksha connected with the principles involved in the stages of the brahmacharin, grihastha, vanaprastha and sanyasin, all which commingle in a sea of comprehension which is the maintenance of God-consciousness. | | | Thus, these four aspects of your life should come together as a vital blending in the way of living. |
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http://www.swami-krishnananda.org/sadh/sadh_07a.html
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| | Education & Research: Articles - Printer Friendly |
| | In grihastha life there is the power of love, nothing but a simple man's simple love for simple woman, creating a simple family in simple circumstances with unbeatable bliss, unbeatable contentment. | | | It should be an eye-opener to the younger generation that it is not marriage per se which is at fault, it is not grihastha life which is at fault, it is the way that life is handled, which is at fault. | | | They have not been able to generate love sufficiently to overcome their problems, and they have not been able to make sacrifices enough to assure harmonious existence, and that should be a lesson. |
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http://www.sahajmarg.org/smrti/education/publications/salfeatures/salfeatures3family_prn.html
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| | Vanaprastha - Art History Online Reference and Guide |
| | It is the third in the four phases of a man, namely, Brahmacharya, Grihastha, Vanaprastha, and finally Sanyasa, as prescribed by Manusmriti for the Dhwija castes, in the Hindu system of life. | | | When the householder is advanced in years, when he perceives his skin become wrinkled and his hair grey, when he sees the son of his son, the time is said to have come for him to enter the third stage of life. |
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http://www.arthistoryclub.com/art_history/Vanaprastha
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| | Ashram |
| | The next 25 years are spent in the Grihastha ashram, where a man uses the knowledge he gained as a student to live a complete life and enjoys worldly pleasures without a sense of guilt. | | | Followers of this school believe that there is just one ashram: the Grihastha ashram. | | | Ashram refers to a stage or phase in the life of a "twice-born" Hindu (see Upanayanam). |
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http://www.gurjari.net/ico/Mystica/html/ashram.htm
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| | >Preaching is Grihastha Dharma |
| | Grihastha dharma means using one's material possessions in the service of the Lord (c.f. | | | It just so happens that the Gita verse 4.26 comes within a lengthy description of sacrifices recommended for devotees in different statuses of life (yogis, brahmacaris, grihasthas, etc.), and which culminates in Bhagavad-gita verse 4.34. | | | So "that," or how to perform yajna, or sacrifice, is what needs to be learned from the spiritual master. |
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http://www.dipika.org/2003/05/26.31/31.preaching.is.grhasta.dharma/print.html
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| | URDAY.COM - DUTIES OF A GRIHASTH (HOUSEHOLDER) |
| | Daily after the bath in the morning, a Grihastha must perform oblations to the deities, to the sages, Prajapati and ancestors by offering water to them. | | | At the arrival of a guest, a Grihastha must worship him by offering water, cereals, flowers etc. as per his financial condition. | | | Such kind of living definitely benefits a Grihastha. |
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| | ESSAY |
| | The householder spends twenty five years of his life in the Grihastha ashrama where he is allowed to accumulate wealth, fulfil sexual urges and enjoy legitimate pleasures. | | | The Hindu scriptures lay emphasis on their practice since all of them are equally important. | | | In the modern age, it can be seen that some householders do not fulfil all the duties that formerly used to be fulfilled in the Grihastha ashrama. |
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| | Bg 1:31 |
| | A Griha, to live in a house, does not mean a grihastha. | | | It doesn't matter, you live with your wife and children, or you live with brahmacari, sannyasi. | | | "You have got wife, but if you have no children, that griha is also void." So grihastha means to live with wife and children, and cultivating spiritual life. |
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http://www.acbspn.com/bg/730724BG_LON.htm
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| | The Laws of Spiritual Development |
| | “Major” grihastha is the one who, for example, heads a whole spiritual direction. | | | A person who is “standing firmly on the feet” — that one is grihastha. | | | Many religious trends and Schools lack this idea of regularity of man’s development and make attempts to bring all adepts immediately to the state of sannyasi (monk) which is only detrimental for them. |
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http://autobiography.swami-center.org/page_19.shtml
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| | Chammathu: Sathya Sai Baba Dharma Vahini |
| | In the Manusmrithi, in the Naradaparivraajakopanishad and other such texts, it is mentioned that in some instances, Grihastha who adheres to Dharma is reckoned as the highest type of man, while in some other texts it is laid down that only sages who have renounced everything deserve worship. | | | He has declared that the Grihastha too attains Moksha; only he must follow strictly the Dharma laid down for his Asrama. | | | There is no doubt that every one, to whichever Asrama he may belong, who adheres to the Dharma of that Asrama, will attain Moksha. |
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| | theSamaj.org > > News > > Grihastha —Ashram |
| | Question arises in the mind of many Grihasthas, spiritual minded ones living in this mundane, materialistic world but with respect for truth, love and God as to how can they attain Him. | | | In Modern Age, Sri Ramakrishna, mother Sharada Devi, Householders themselves have shown devotees their true place in life and enhanced their Status in Society, glorified the Institution of Grihastha. | | | Our scriptures say-Atmabalam [spiritual energy] to control our mind and sense organs are over Bahubalam, Buddhibalam. |
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| | "Devotional Qualities..." Discource, 11 Aug 2003 |
| | It is very famous, the Sri Sampradaya, and many grihasthas of the Sri Sampradaya hold a higher position than sannyasis. | | | There were two grihastha Vaisnavas, a husband and wife, going for parikrama with Guru Maharaj. | | | Like Sripad Bhakti Saranga Goswami when he was Aprakrita Prabhu — he was grihastha and Prabhupad's disciple, but many Vaisnava sannyasis would bow down to him. |
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http://www.scsmath.com/worldtour/20/030811_discource_sgovm.html
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| | Welcome to The Institute of Sikh Studies-->Publications |
| | It is said God is an Eternal Love, Mother is Supreme Love and similarly the love between two married partners is basis of human existence. | | | According to the Sikh doctrine the married couple has to take a vow individually in front of Guru Granth Sahib to stick to code of Pati Varta Dharam and Patni Varta Dharam. | | | There is a Punjabi Saying that " Ek ek, tay do giaran " Let us consider "Those Fine Arts" and Eleven Fold strength the couple acquires to face the arduous task of living happily married during Grihastha, a house holders life. |
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| | ashrama -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | The stages are those of (1) the student (brahmacari), marked by chastity, devotion and obedience to one's teacher; (2) the householder ( grihastha), requiring marriage, the begetting of sons, working to sustain one's family and to help support priests and holy men, … |
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| | Hindutva Series : Hindu History - The Emergence of the Caste System (The Jati-Varna Matrix) |
| | For this he was looked upon as apostate and was expelled from his caste after which life was so unbearable for him that he preferred to commit suicide along with his wife, leaving behind four infant children to fend for themselves. | | | A case in point is the expulsion from the Brahmin caste of Saint Dyaneshwar's father because he returned to the life of a Grihastha (householder) after once having fosaken material life and taken up Sanyasa. |
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| | The sacrifices mentioned in the Vedas were means by which the people's occupations according to their orders of life (namely brahmacharya, grihastha, vanaprastha and sannyasa) could be purified. | | | Regulated knowledge involves a gradual raising of the living entity to the spiritual platform, through varna (brahmana - intellectual, kshatriya - ruler, vaishya - merchant, shudra - worker) and asrama (brahmacharya - student, grihastha - family, vanaprastha - retired, sannyasa - renounced). | | | To simplify the process of understanding and performing vedic rituals, Vyasadeva (the empowered incarnation of Krishna) divided the one Veda into four, |
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| | Religion: Learn about the many different religions of the world |
| | Varnasrama and Grihastha Life - Agrahya Dasa describes his shift from brahmacari spirituality and asceticism to a grihastha's pragmatic existence. | | | Sadhana - The Spiritual Way - English-language essay - written by Swami Krishnananda - traces the holistic relationship of dharma, karma and moksha. | | | Caste System in Hinduism - Essay examines the Indian class system and its role in Hindu belief. |
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| | The Fullness of Human Experience - Chapter Nine, page 3 - Rudhyar Archival Project |
| | It ends when the human being, having "come of age," marries and devotes all that he or she has built to the perpetuation of the sociocultural and religious order according to the function that his or her birth-situation has determined — the person's individual share in the karma of humanity. | | | According to the traditional Hindu doctrines, the full natural life-span of a human being is normally divisible into four stages ( ashrama): brahmacharya, grihastha, vanaprastha, and sannyasa. | | | During the second stage, grihastha, the mature being and the spiritual identity behind the physical embodiment are drawn into a series of organized productive activities, biological and sociocultural. |
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| | Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi the Atiasrami, p.1 |
| | However, instead of taking the easy course and declaring himself to be either in the grihastha (householder) or vanaprastha (meditating hermit) asrama, he declared that he was in atiasrama, which means 'beyond all asramas '. | | | When I came to this place I had been living among people who were in the grihastha asrama. | | | Whether grihastha and atiasrama are the same depends on the view of the man who is looking. |
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| | BTG20 |
| | The Grihamedi's life is full of calamities by the laws of nature, while the life of the Grihastha is full of happiness. | | | A Grihamedi's life is full of vices because he dos not know how to live a family lfe. | | | But contrary to this there is another word called by the name Grihastha. |
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| | Sanyasa - Enpsychlopedia |
| | It is the last in the four phases of a man, namely, Brahmacharya, Grihastha, Vanaprastha, and finally Sanyasa, as prescribed by Manusmriti for the Dhwija castes, in the Hindu system of life. | | | He thus renunciates all worldly thoughts and desires, and spends the rest of his life in spiritual contemplation. | | | Orthodox Hindus will generally not accept the claims of the followers of Osho/Bhagwan/Rajneesh to be sannyasins and may even find this claim insulting. |
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| | Sayings of a Paramahamsa |
| | If you earn and spend only on yourself or save and deposit your earnings in the bank in your own name, then dharma and moksha cannot be attained, and spiritual life cannot be lived without them. | | | The third quarter is vanaprastha, when you have to retire and think about your spiritual self. | | | You must give back to society whatever it has given to you in the form of personal wealth and prosperity. |
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| | Culture Course Vol VIII - The Asramas (Page3) |
| | In these Yajnas he even prays to be forgiven for unknown sins like stepping over a worm or plucking a flower for worship; for, he believes that even trees and plants have life. | | | He must go on pilgrimages to holy kshetras and visit temples and contribute to their upkeep. | | | It is the Grihastha’s duty to support his elders, Sanyasis and guests by feeding them. |
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| | Indian Marriage Traditions Page |
| | The Vivaha is performed in Sanskrit, the most ancient surviving language. | | | Vivaha marks the beginning of the second one, Grihastha or House Holder. |
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| | Vaishnava and Spiritual Family Resources, information and articles |
| | · Confront and correct any preaching or teaching that undermines the health and strength of the grihastha ashram, or discriminates against spiritually based grihastha life | | | Those who sincerely serve Lord Sri Krishna and Shrila Prabhupada in this ashram will make tangible spiritual advancement. | | | We affirm that the grihastha ashram is a valuable institution that brings great benefit. |
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| | SRCM - Recent Lectures |
| | We have a spiritual retreat where we do some sort of grihastha tapasya [householders' ascetic practice] because we are all grihasthas, we are not sannyasis in Sahaj Marg. | | | So grihastha tapasya is combined with very necessary education on various aspects which are totally misunderstood in the Indian context. |
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| | Yoga Malika - Portal of Peace & Happiness |
| | Grihastha is glorified as giving sustenance to the other three ashramas who live on the biksha of grihasthas. | | | It is said in the Vedas that everyone must go through four ashramas or stages of life -- brahmachari, grihastha, vanaprastha and sanyasa -- and the final one through which one attains moksha or reaches the Lord is sanyasa. | | | In the olden days, the people started brahmacharya at a very early age of five to 10 years. |
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| | iShopIndian.com :: Movies :: Classics :: Gumrah (old) |
| | In the sacred Ramayan - One is taught about this boundary of home - The Sacred Precincts of Grihastha. | | | It is a story of a woman who allows her past to interfere with her present. |
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| | Science Fair Projects - Brahmacharya |
| | It is the first in the four phases of a man, namely, Brahmacharya, Grihastha, Vanaprastha, and finally Sanyasa, as prescribed by Manusmriti for the Dhwija castes, in the Hindu system of life. | | | This stage of life is preceded by the Upanayanam of the child, during which ceremony, he is considered to be born again. | | | The practise of brahmacharya among other things requires one to be celibate. |
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http://www.all-science-fair-projects.com/science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Brahmacharya
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| | Hare Krishna Cultural Journal: GBC Archives |
| | Formulating such a social policy is the GBC's greatest challenge in the foreseeable future because it influences so many other problem areas: difficulty of devotees at all levels of ISKCON, from the leadership down the rank and file, in maintaining appropriate spiritual conduct; the female diksa guru question; the grihastha ashram; and education in general. | | | This compartmentalization is unhelpful both to the grihastha ashram and to ISKCON. | | | Srila Prabhupada said one fourth of the society (grihasthas) needs to maintain three fourths of society (students, vanaprasthas and sannyasis). |
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| | SANDEHA NIVARINI SATHYA SAI BABA DISSOLVING DOUBTS |
| | Answer: Being married and living with the wife and children do not constitute Grihastha Asrama as most people think. | | | It is believed that all who have not become Grihasthas are entitled to be called Brahmacharis. | | | Querist: Different explanations are given by different persons for the word Brahmacharya and the stage it denotes. |
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| | The Building of the Home by B. P. Wadia |
| | 77) Again "The Vedas declare the Grihastha to be the highest Ashrama. | | | The Brahmin was a grihastha, a family man, till a certain period of his life, when, after begetting a son, he broke with married life and became a chaste Yogi. | | | Because Rama and Asoka built their kingdoms after the family-pattern, as Jesus and Gautama laboured for members of the one human family. |
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| | Advice To Householders |
| | Married life, if lived in a perfect ideal manner, is no bar to the attainment of Mukti. | | | If you can live such a life, the life of a Grihastha is as good as the life of a Sannyasin. | | | The student, after finishing his studies, enters the order of Grihastha, when he is ready to take up the duties and responsibilities of household life. |
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| | Renunciation & Abandonment |
| | Should he not necessarily become a mendicant in order to attain liberation? | | | Similar thoughts that you are sannyasi (wandering monk) will haunt you, even if you go out as a sannyasi. | | | It creates the body and the world and it makes you think of being the grihastha. |
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| | He remains a Grihastha until his son's son is born, say by the age of 50-55. | | | During Grihastha ashram a man uses the knowledge he gained in his previous ashram (Brahmacharya) to live a complete life and enjoy worldly pleasures, without a sense of guilt. | | | Though his physical senses become weaker, his inner strength increases. |
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| | Regarding Sannyasa by Swami Krishnananda |
| | The Sannyasin can also be a Karmayogin or Bhaktiyogin in the state of inner communion with God Almighty. | | | Grihasthas do not give donation foolishly, because they know the value of the donation which will benefit them also. | | | Nowhere is it suggested that a Sannyasin should lead a life of indulgent comfort, but he should be provided with the necessities required for helping others spiritually and to maintain his creature comforts. |
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| | Encyclopedia - Yahoo! Reference |
| | The four stages of life are brahmacharya or celibate student life (originally for study of the Veda), grihastha or householdership, vanaprastha or forest hermitage, and sannyasa, complete renunciation of all ties with society and pursuit of spiritual liberation. |
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| | Stages of life for a twice-born man - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In essence, this concept argues that a member of the so-called Dwija ( twice-born) castes ( Brahmin, Kshatriya, and Vaishya) are to undergo four periods of life : first, as a student Brahmacharya ; then, as a householder Grihastha ; then, he shall live in retirement Vanaprastha ; and finally, as an ascetic Sanyasi. | | | The Manusmriti goes into some detail, regarding what is expected of an invididual during each stage. |
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| | Ashrama |
| | For the Kshattriya there are the first three Ashramas; for the Vaishya, the first two; and for the Shudra, the grihastha Ashrama only. | | | This Tantra states that in the Kali age there are only two Ashrama. | | | Use and reproduction of this material is governed by the Globusz Publishing's standard terms and conditions. |
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| | KeralaIyers.com - The portal for Kerala Iyers |
| | The bride's father first tells them that he is already an accocmplished Vedic Scholar and requests him to stop his travel for learning and offers him a coconut and offers his daughter in marriage to him and requests him to come back and become a grihastha. | | | He also wears an Uttariyam.It is normal for him to carry a fan, an umbrella, a bamboo fan, a grantham (any book nowadays), wear new slippers and also a small bundle.He wears (collyrium) Kan Mai, garland and sees himself for the first time in the mirror after the poonal. | | | He also wears double poonal (sacred string) indicating the fact that he is ready to become a grihastha. |
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| | Educare Discourse - The Source and Center of Values |
| | It is from the house that the human values originate, blossom and foster the sacred culture. | | | The person presiding over the house is known as Grihastha (householder). | | | Since ancient times, Indians have attached great significance to the stage of a householder among the four, namely, Brahmacharya, Grihastha, Vanaprastha and Sanyasa (celibate, householder, recluse and renunciant). |
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| | What governs the behavior of a man and a woman in the grihastha ashram are the natural laws of love and affection for each other and of the natural sense of responsibility for children, rather than what any lawmaker may inscribe in any book. | | | A readily understood example of this is the grihastha ashram: No human being needed to create the grihastha ashram; the state of wedlock existed in humanity since time immemorial. |
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| | Dharma, karma, samsara, moksa - Brahmana, Ksatriya, Vaishya, Sudra - brahmacarya, grihastha, vanaprastha, samnyasi - Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva |
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| | World Almanac for Kids |
| | They were said to owe three debts: study of the Vedas (owed to the sages); a son (to the ancestors); and sacrifice (to the gods). | | | The three original ashramas were the chaste student ( brahmachari), the householder ( grihastha), and the forest-dweller ( vanaprastha). | | | To the three classes were added the Shudras, or servants, after the Indo-Aryans settled into the Punjab and began to move down into the Ganges Valley. |
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