SOME VALUABLE CLUES TO PROSPERITY IN THE HOUSE-1.

I have four or five things which, as a Hindu, I wish to tell you.

Where elders are respectfully honoured, there prosperity prevails; and where elders - father and mother, grandfather and grandmother, uncles and aunts - are treated with contempt, with harshness, with scant respect, there is no prosperity.


These things are not known.

So when people are miserable,

when people are unhappy, when people lack prosperity, it is not known why it comes about that way.

It is brought about by oneself by a total breaking of these laws.

And then you try find out the consequences of the bad situation by looking at the diary, or statistics, or expenditure and income account.

Perhaps you blame economic conditions.

But, no - you create your bad conditions by breaking the spiritual laws.

Where elders are treated with respect and honour, are treated with reverence, there, in that family, in that house, prosperity will abide.

In the life of that person who honours his elders, prosperity will always rest.



Secondly, where the women of the house are treated with reverence, where they are put upon the pedestal which they deserve, there is prosperity.

Where are we all, where is humanity if it is not for the women ?

It is the Supreme Mother who is the very source of the whole universe, and where the mothers, the women, are treated with reverence that is due to them, in that house, there is prosperity.

And where women are treated with disrespect, unkindness, harshness, prosperity cannot come.

Prosperity does not abide in that house where the wife and the mother are made to weep, where tears of women fall.

Prosperity takes wings and flies away from that house where woman weeps.

SRI SWAMI CHIDANANDA
To be continued  ....