Managing Home

9 September 1976, Inagural Ceremony of Home Science Department

Published English.

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Dear Embodiments of !

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Our vision must turn away from mean sensuousness, and must concentrate on things that are noble and worthy. The unity that is present in the diversity has to be grasped. Worthless desires must be curbed by the use of discriminating faculty. This is possible only through the quality. Therefore you should strive to wriggle out from the morass of and instincts.

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Goddess Of The House There is happiness only in the attitude. Wealth, fame and name—these things cannot provide lasting happiness. The water called character oozes out of the well called quality. quality therefore leads man to the status of (God).

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The Department of Home Science had been introduced in this college today. I had inaugurated the Laboratory thereof. I had also reviewed its staff and the curriculum. The women of Bharat were naturally endowed with the art of home making and its welfare. In the present age this is given a big name like Home Science. This Home Science is immensely useful in bringing up children and in the aspect of serving other members of the family. This involves sharpening of tastes and skills. Woman has been extolled as Goddess of the house in our and . She is considered as a leader in the path of righteousness; and as a trusted companion to her husband. She has been respected as a bright light in the house. These embodiments of motherhood have been responsible in the task of bringing up children in an atmosphere of truth, companionship, brotherhood, consideration, non-violence, and love. But unfortunately the modern woman is attracted towards western culture and is developing crazy ideas in emulating their way of living. With the result she is ever immersed in dissatisfaction and mental agony. She is leaving the task of children’s care to the maid servants. She is unable to manage her own house. She has no enthusiasm in spreading the fragrance of good practices that are conducive to prosperity.

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A true education must equip the students with the power of self-confidence and must render them capable of discharging their own duties without depending on others. One should not go around offices using degrees as begging bowls. After the Bliss is tasted nobody will be inclined to derive happiness from these degrees and their benefits. Through this course of Home Science you should be moulded as sweet and efficient individuals. The housewife should be able to spread peace and joy to all family members, orderlies, and neighbors.

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wanted to go to the forest alone; then pleaded with him in a sweet manner, but, with words that were hard facts of righteousness; and she had succeeded in convincing . She argued saying she would clear thorns and pebbles out of the path He trod. If was moon she was like moonlight that could not be separated from him. “If a moon had left for the forest, the moonlight could not remain in ,” she said. She accused him saying he was leaving her behind like a coward. At last she could win over him as a result of which, she was able to discharge her ordained duty and could establish her fame on earth.

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Woman is the light of home, an angel that bestows transcendental bliss. She is expected to spend a spotless life while enhancing the prestige of parents as well as in-laws. She must bring all members of the family into the right path by using her subtle skills. The mother tells her child about God’s nature and his greatness. She tells the child that God is the sole motivator for the entire world. God takes human form and exhorts man the principle and protects man from the onslaughts of lust, anger and the like. Therefore, when the mother replicates and reflects these things at home, imagine how much God will be pleased!

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