{"id":281,"date":"2003-12-02T18:18:34","date_gmt":"2003-12-02T18:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atourcity.com\/bkgoswami.com\/?p=281"},"modified":"2013-12-02T18:20:43","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T18:20:43","slug":"every-ashram-has-its-specific-duties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atourcity.com\/bkgoswami.com\/every-ashram-has-its-specific-duties\/","title":{"rendered":"Every Ashram Has Its Specific Duties"},"content":{"rendered":"

A brahmacari should not have a girlfriend
\nbecause then he is not a brahmacari.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A grihastha should not ignore his wife because this is not a grihasta<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Everyone of us has specific nature. Some have the nature of a grihastha, some of a brahmacari or sannyasi. This is a very specific thing.<\/p>\n

In other words, a brahmacari should not have a girlfriend, because this is not a brahmacari, and a girhastha should not ignore his wife, because this is not a grihastha. A householder has specific duties. He has to support his wife emotionally. He can not think, “O, I am a brahmacari with<\/p>\n

my brahmacari assistant.” He has specific duties.<\/p>\n

Every asrama has to stick to its duties. That means that every one of us has a specific nature which fits into a specific asrama. If you are a brahmacari by nature you never get married. But this is very rare, perhaps one in a million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A brahmacari should not have a girlfriend because then he is not a brahmacari. A grihastha should not ignore his wife because this is not a grihasta Everyone of us has specific nature. Some have the nature of a grihastha, some of a brahmacari or sannyasi. This is a very specific thing. In other words, read more>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[20,65,24,64],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atourcity.com\/bkgoswami.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atourcity.com\/bkgoswami.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atourcity.com\/bkgoswami.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atourcity.com\/bkgoswami.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atourcity.com\/bkgoswami.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atourcity.com\/bkgoswami.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282,"href":"https:\/\/atourcity.com\/bkgoswami.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions\/282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atourcity.com\/bkgoswami.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atourcity.com\/bkgoswami.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atourcity.com\/bkgoswami.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}