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Leading A Spiritual Life

something more – and that is informal education.
Everyone’s family is the centre of informal education for
him. To gain admission into this institution, you don’t
need to pay any kind of admission fee. It is destined by
nature and by birth – a fact of life. You should therefore
make certain to avail of whatever your family offers you
in terms of informal education.
The family is a unit of society. In this sense, every
family is like a mini-society. You have to try to train
yourself in this mini-society so that you will be able to
enjoy a better life in the larger society. One who fails to
live a good life in his family circle will certainly fail to
live a good life in society.

Adjustment, a principle of life, is what makes all
social life run smoothly. If you enter social life without
first having learned to make adjustments within the
framework of the family, you will have only two options:
either learn to make immediate adjustments or stoop
to hypocrisy and then live in a never-ending state of
tension.

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