Spiritual Family Versus Material Family

Happiness through spiritual family expansion

0:00500 children, and they are happy. I have got to explain anything for them. I am not happy? If you say, you don't say you have no intelligence.

0:13If I have got 500 children, happy children, instead of three or four children, I'm not happy? No, I am giving you a concrete example. Just try to understand.

0:26You're saying that having children doesn't have to be... No, no, because you can understand in that way, having this material way of life.

Contrasting material and spiritual platforms

0:34Therefore, I am saying, I have got many other platforms of happiness. But just to make you understand that when I was maintaining five children, I was not happy.

Difficulties of material family maintenance

0:48There are so many problems. Family maintenance. But I have got my family of hundred, five hundred children, but I have no problem. How can you say that I'm not happy? I am just giving a contrast.

1:09If one man is said, faced with so many problems for maintaining a family... It is said it is difficult to maintain a family than to maintain an empire.

1:25So family maintenance is a very difficult job, especially in this way, in this present day.

Love and responsibility in spiritual life

1:33So I am still in a family. But I have no responsibility, still my children are faithful and I love them, they love me. So it's a very happy family. The family is there, they

1:50treat me as their father, I treat them as my children. The relationship is there, the love, complete love is there, so complete happiness is there. I'm giving a concrete example.

Spiritual versus material family concepts

2:06People create a family for becoming happy. But instead of being happy, they become unhappy in the material conception of family life.

2:18But in comparison to the material conception of family life, if you come to the spiritual concept, our family life, we become happy. So I don't know about that. I don't know questions.

Personal history of biological children

2:41Are your children or adults enough grown up? Grown up, what do you mean? Or my children? Not pure... do not have spiritual children. I mean children of the flesh. Are they little or big?

3:01No, they are grown up. They have got... I have got my grandchildren. They are married. My granddaughter was married the other day. I had news, so they are now grown up. Perhaps my granddaughter has got a child.

3:22So I'm old enough. So my children are old enough.

Transition from family to renunciation

3:30I left my home at the age of 60 years. Yes. I was 58 years old. Then I left my home. Otherwise, until 58 years, I was a regular family man.