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Updated: July 23, 2025
It was a feeling that such an attitude has its dangers and is only for the few who have fought their way to the heights where it can safely be adopted, that led the Brahmans in all ages to lay stress on the householder's life as the proper preparation for a philosophic old age.
Similarly, a Kshatriya should protect the people in accordance with the injunctions of the law, diligently practise the virtue of charity, offer sacrifices, study the whole Veda, take a wife, and lead a virtuous householder's life. If he be possessed of a virtuous soul, and if he practise the holy virtues, he may easily attain the region of the Supreme Being.
A model Indian housewife, Kashi Moni cheerfully carried on her home duties and the traditional householder's obligation to serve guests and the poor. Two saintly sons, Tincouri and Ducouri, blessed the union. At the age of 23, in 1851, Lahiri Mahasaya took the post of accountant in the Military Engineering Department of the English government.
To some extent he followed the occupations of an ordinary man of business and father of a family, but the most important point in establishing a home of his own was the kindling of his own sacred fire , and the householder's life was regarded as a series of rites, such as the daily offering of milk, the new and full moon ceremonies, seasonal sacrifices every four months and the Soma sacrifice once a year, besides oblations to ancestors and other domestic observances.
The one with the bigger feet must be older. She is the wife for you." But Fierce-lion said: "My son, what do you mean? Your mother went to heaven before your eyes. When so good a wife is gone, how could I think of another?" But his son said: "Not so, Father. A householder's house is an empty place without a wife. Besides, you have surely heard what the poet says: What fool would go into a house?
But under every householder's stairs there was kept a mysterious plank nine inches wide; which plank was a secret bridge. If you, as one of those refugee householders, came in from business after dark and this was the business time here you stealthily crossed the moor, approached the border of the aforesaid brook, and whistled opposite the house to which you belonged.
In our Northampton experiment it has been our conviction from the beginning that for a private garden to be what it should be to have a happy individuality a countenance of its own one worthy to be its own it must in some practical way be the fruit of its householder's own spirit and not merely of some hired gardener's.
A man may be a most respectable and respected church-member, and have listened to Christian teaching all his days, and have in life a vague wish to be 'saved, and yet be hopelessly unfit to enter, and therefore irremediably shut out. The Householder's answer, in its severity and calmness, indicates the inflexible impossibility of opening to such seekers.
But what sort of a servant is he, who has no glow of gladness at the thought of meeting his lord? True Christians are 'all them that have loved His appearing. The illustrative example which separates these two commands is remarkable. The householder's ignorance of the time when the thief would come is the reason why he does not watch.
And, second, that from the householder's point of view, looking streetward from his garden's inner depth, its fence, when unplanted, is a blank interruption to his whole fair scheme of meandering foliage and bloom which on the other three sides frames in the lawn; as though the garden were a lovely stage scene with the fence for footlights, and some one had left the footlights unlit.
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