[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMnlIzH09_Y&w=536&h=397] FAMILY RELATIONSHIP SEMINAR, MOSCOW, RUSSIA, 20TH AUGUST 2007, PART 2 QUESTIONS Q.1: Is there any meaning in talking about demoniac influence on Grihastha Ashram? Is it the reason for most of the divorces? HH BVPS Maharaja: Basically the Grihastha Ashram not working is just lack of knowledge of
FAMILY RELATIONSHIP SEMINAR, MOSCOW, RUSSIA, 19th AUGUST 2007, PART 1 Human life is meant to realize God. So that means everything in God's creation is connected to Him. So what's correct means it's connected to God and what's incorrect means it's not connected to God. That's the real definition of
Mataji (1): What one should do if one feels that she or he, one has no one to turn to, that she's been so much disappointed that she can find no one to trust and no one to turn to for advice...
Mataji: My husband died, but I have 2 grown-up daughters and I don't feel like I should be taking vanaprastha, but I would like to understand what's my duty and behavior towards my family and myself as a woman, how should I behave and what are the rules in that
Prabhu: I want to ask what are the husband's responsibilities in connection with these wife's spiritual programs, and what are his responsibilities in everyday life?
Gain from the mentor what they can do. A language teacher can teach language, a math teacher can teach math, a history teacher can teach history. So, like that, you go to language teacher for language, not for math. If they know what they are talking about in marriage, then
Prabhu: In the lectures here as you gave in 1997 you said that the husband should act as a temple president, and the wife as a temple commander. Could you explain? HH BVPS Maharaja: Are you sure? I would have probably said, the husband is like the GBC, the wife
Mataji: If the husband or the wife cannot be faithful to the other, whose fault is this? The fault of both or just one? HH BVPS Maharaja: This is a very dangerous yatra [Laughter]. It can be both. It's very complex, this one, it takes a great amount of maturity
Prabhu: When we read in the Bhagavatam that Krishna appears in all species of life to call back the living entities, how to understand this? HH BVPS Maharaja: Means? Oh, okay. Means, we've already seen Him come as a Fish, as a Turtle, as a Boar, like that. So every