Closer to us, here is what the Maharaj Sharan Singh 1978 tells us about:
Life in this world and its responsibilities.
The Saints warn us that in order to reach the knowledge of God, it is pointless to start fasting, dressing in a special way or haunting the places of pilgrimage. No purely formal devotional mark is necessary. The Masters do not encourage us to withdraw from the society around us, let alone to flee from our responsibilities. Namdev said: “By refuging youselves in the wilderness and by leading a life of a hermit, you will not escape from desire, attachment or illusion.”
Therefore we must fulfil the duties which arise from our state of citizen, spouse or wife, son or daughter, brother or friend.
But we must be careful not to be so concerned about not being so preoccupied with these relationships or duties that we come to forget the raison d’être of all human existence, the return to our true homeland.
On the contrary, we must be careful never to lose sight of this goal and always walk on the path that takes us back to this homeland.
That is why the Saints urge us to fulfill both our spiritual tasks and our state duties.
Since we were talking about love and its fallout, in conforming ourselves in the present century, we will thus have avoided the confinement in any obscure doctrine, obscure, because that dated several centuries hence, involutive and retrograde.
The teaching given by all Saints is the same throughout all times. They all bring the same message and no Saint, no perfect Master comes into this world to found a new religion and destroy the old ones, nor to train peoples and nations against each other. They only come here to show us the way that allows us to return to our original homeland and, after their departure, men generally turn to a form of purely ritual and formal religion, far removed in any case from the principles Very pure and very high that these Masters had taught; Their forgotten precepts, the door is open to bigotry, to the strife and to the wars of religion. It is not their own will that the Saints come down here; it is actually the Almighty father who sends them there. They do not feel for themselves the desire to preach or initiate anyone. It is God who sends the Master with the mission of bringing together the souls marked in advance, those who are designated to be part of his flock. Christ spoke of the father who had sent him and he added, “For I came down from heaven to do not my will, but the will of The One who sent me.” And for his part, the Guru Arjan said about their coming into this world:
“The Saints whose existence lies beyond the limits of birth and death come down here, for pity and mercy, to call our souls to a new life, to light in it the fiery fire of devotion and to allow it to meet God.”
Whether they are born in the east or in the west, to any land of any religion and race they belong to, the mission of the Saints is always the same; it is to save us from the sufferings and miseries of this world. Their coming here is precisely to save the souls assigned to them, and therefore to put them on the path of the knowledge of God, to bring them help and comfort, and to bring them back to their original homeland, into the bosom of God. As long as we have not reached this stage, indeed, we cannot enjoy eternal peace and happiness. And so the Master puts his disciples on the path, and gives them his teachings and certain indications which are necessary to them, both to conduct themselves in the world and to carry out their spiritual exercises.
Please listen to this video carefully, it is a message that is stripped of any form of religiosity or imbued of any negativity.