Talks Excerpt 534. Swamiji gives some punchy advice for Grihastha [householder] and Brahmachari devotees.

From Mother Radha’s recordings of Swamiji.

If you go to a man’s house and his wife says he is not at home, then, if you want to wait for him, your place is in the sitting room.

You will avoid a lot of problems if you follow the scriptural laws, and I am telling you only that which is in the scriptures. I tell you these things because you are mine and I do not want you to be harmed in any way.

Some of you think that you can follow the ways of the Western world but you are not Westerners in that sense. You are Westerners only in an earning sense. One of the reasons why there are so many divorces in Hindu families today, is because they are following a wrong kind of life. This can happen anywhere, and to our nearest and dearest ones.

Gurudev [Swami Nischalananda Puri – Swamiji’s beloved Guru and our revered ‘Gurudev’] was so strict. He would never let a man and a woman sit down on the quiet and talk. If one of the brahmacharis did this he would say to him, ‘Go and get some tea. Go and do this. Go and do that.’ But I have to tell you, that even with his great protection, a lot of things can go wrong. It is very important to follow moral and ethical codes of conduct.

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These recordings or the excerpts from them, were made from the early 1970s onward, by Mother Radha, a close devotee of Swamiji’s and edited for uploading here by our gurubhai and her son, Brother Tim. Please be mindful that what Swamiji was saying may have been specific to an individual or a group of people with him, at the time.