What's the difference between Grahasta and Graha-chari?

Hare Krishna everyone,

PAMHO,

If any single boy or single women (un-married) living in their home with family and doing proper bhakti with all the rules and regulations, in what above category, will they be considered? Will they be considered as Grahasta or Graha-chari?

And are those single people are eligible for initiation? in future if they want to.

 

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  • I am literally getting confused now, so, what category those single people belong too? If due to xyz reasons neither of them get married, be it a boy or girl, then what is there for them in KC movement? Where will they go?

    It will be very tough for them to get initiated then? And if any single person, if doing proper sadhna with proper rules and regulations, i don't think so any spiritual master should hesitate to give them initiation?  There are always a exceptional cases.

     

    • Sevak

      Hare Krsna 

      What category those single people belong too ?

      There is provision Brahmacarya and Sannayasa ashrama for signle males.

      If neither of them get married, be it a boy or girl, then what is there for them in KC movement?

      Krsna consciousness or practice of bhakti is beyond social system. The Krsna consciousness movement is given by lord Sri Chaitanya to the fallen people of kali yuga. There is no qualification for chanting of the holy names of Sri Krsna. 

      Where will they go?

      Whatever one remembers at time of death, their next destination is decided by that consciousness. Anyone who remembers Sri Krsna at time of death will go to the abode of Sri Krsna

      It will be very tough for them to get initiated then?

      That depends of sincerrety of disciple. It does not depend on external social position.

      And if any single person, if doing proper sadhna with proper rules and regulations, i don't think so any spiritual master should hesitate to give them initiation? 

      Lord Sri Krsna  is more eager to connect with His sincere devotees than we can imagine. There is no constraints for a sincere seeker. Please refer tothe book- Journey Home 

       

  • Sevak

    Hare Krsna 

    Will they be considered as Grahasta or Graha-chari?

    Unmarried people are not categorized as either Grihastha nor Grahamedhi/Grahacari. The requirement for a person to be Grihastha / Grahamedhi/Grahacari is griha. Griha does not refer to House, it referes to spouse. 

    kata dine prabhu citte karilā cintana
    gṛhastha ha-ilāma, ebe cāhi gṛha-dharma

    After some days the Lord thought, “I did not take sannyāsa, and since I am remaining at home it is My duty to act as a gṛhastha. (CC Adi 15.25)

    gṛhiṇī vinā gṛha-dharma nā haya śobhana
    eta cinti’ vivāha karite haila mana

    “Without a wife,” Lord Caitanya considered, “there is no meaning to householder life.” Thus the Lord decided to marry. (CC Adi 15.26)

    na gṛhaṁ gṛham ity āhur
    gṛhiṇī gṛham ucyate
    tayā hi sahitaḥ sarvān
    puruṣārthān samaśnute

    “Merely a house is not a home, for it is a wife who gives a home its meaning. If one lives at home with his wife, together they can fulfill all the interests of human life.” (CC Adi 15.27)

    Prabhupāda: Na gṛhaṁ gṛham ity āhur gṛhiṇī gṛham ucyate [Cc. Ādi 15.27]. The gṛham, house, is not actually gṛha. Gṛha means the wife. Gṛhiṇī gṛham ucyate na gṛhaṁ gṛham ity āhuḥ. Gṛhiṇī gṛham ucyate. So to become householder means one must have a wife. So actually round the wife. Gṛhamedhī: round the wife. And what is wife means, everyone knows. (Morning Walk 05-Mar-1974, Mayapur) (https://vedabase.io/en/library/transcripts/740305mwmay/)

    Are those single people are eligible for initiation? in future if they want to.

    The spiritual initiation of a discuple is not constrained by social rules. It is beyond social life. It is dependent on the willingness of guru. Guru can choose to give initiation , guru may reject. No institution, society, laws, armies is capable of governing the spiritual initiation/relationship between guru and disciple, at present, past or  in future. 

    Hare Krsna

    Morning Walk, [partially recorded]
  • Hare Krishna,

    How can single unmarried people living in their own families are considered grihasta or graha chari? 

    they can be neither of them.

    Grihasta means one who along with his wife participates in the bhakti and run a family together.

    Anyways, two people who are living apart from each other and unmarried and doing bhakti are just two different souls who are trying hard to cultivate bhakti and go back to Godhead.

    Firstly, it is important to know that we all came to this Earth singly and will go also singly one day.

    We make relationships here in this world to make our lives comfortable and also because of karma bandhana we are froming relationships with people.  We has something Some business dealing with them which 

    was unfinished in past lives that we are continuing with them to complete that transaction and go ahead in life to go back to Godhead.

    Our main goal is not being here and enjoying the company of the partners. Our main aim is to how to go back to Krishna.

    So, if these two people single living seperately and doing bhakti have nothing to do with each other they are striving to become perfected to become worthy to be loved by Lord Sri Krishna.

    They both are single and eligible for initiation why not  PROVIDED THEY keep following the rules and regulations.

    If they live in one family under on single roof but don't participate in physical union but do bhakti seperately are just like two trains aiming for the same destination but they are running on two different tracks.

    Hare Krishna.

     

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