Raipur. Home is the first temple of a human being, it is a pilgrimage, it is Ganga, it is a school. The house where one experiences peace, ease, kindness, happiness is a temple. This view was expressed by Muni Sudhakar in the lecture series “Make your home a temple” at Jai Samavsaran, Raipur Tagore Nagar Lal Ganga Patwa Bhawan.
Addressing the huge crowd present for the discourse, Munishri said that religion should begin from one’s own home instead of any temple, mosque, gurudwara or religious place. Rather than thinking about heaven or hell ahead, a house where there is harmony, intimacy, friendly behavior among family members like brothers, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, sister-in-law and sister-in-law etc. is like heaven. A house where there is distance, conflict, and estrangement is like hell. A happy family is the basis of a happy life.
Munishri said that during the time of Rama, dignity was needed, during the time of Mahavira, non-violence was needed, but at present, love is needed. Love should become religion, scriptures, the basis of life. The house where there is love and affection, wealth and fame reside there. That house becomes the abode of salvation like the house of Bharat Chakravarti.
While enunciating the five-sutra principle for turning a home into a temple, Muni Shri said that family members should participate in each other’s work, be helpful, extend a helping hand, share the work. They should find their own happiness in each other’s happiness. In the second sutra he said that if family members stay united and respect each other then no one else can do any harm to them. Assimilating the saying ‘What is yours, what is mine, this world is for everyone’s sake’, in the third sutra he inspired people to be ready for sacrifice. In the fourth sutra he told that where there is wealth, there is property. Before draping a chunari on mother in the temple, before offering food to God, one should respect one’s parents, mother-in-law, father-in-law, brothers and sisters. By living with love, cooperation, by living with wealth, Lakshmi resides.
While providing special food with the fifth and most important sutra, Muni Shri said that cleanliness is the step to the temple. The house in which junk and rubbish are lying on the roof or basement causes the biggest Vaastu defect. It causes unrest. From the point of view of non-violence, it causes the birth of living beings.
Muni Nareshkumar said that religion should be considered as the most important thing in life, religion should be given more importance than wealth, religion is the life force of life. Terapanth Parishad President Virendra Daga said that around 17 brothers and sisters are doing penance of eight and above. On the occasion of Muskan Bhansali’s penance of nine years, the sisters of Bhansali family sang a song.