into it and subjected to lifelong worldliness. She characterized this as intolerable oppression, but in the case of those for whose spiritual evolution she found the married life more suited, she certainly recommended that course, without creating any conflict of ideals in their minds. She would say to them, 'Do you not see everything in this world in couple - two eyes, two ears, two hands, two feet and so on? So also the male and female principles!'; or 'Everything is in the mind. Don't you see that the Master married me?'
In the matter of social relationship, however, she always insisted that the householder must show due regard to the Sannyasin, and she herself set the example in that respect.