About one's family and children, Baba explained to Pappa on the 8th:
All your children, wife, relatives and others, and your attachment for them, is Maya. Truly they neither belong to you nor do you belong to them. This connection and affection that you all feel is only for this life. After you leave your physical body, none goes with you, and even if they cry for you after death, it will only be for a short while, a few days. After death, you develop new connections and renew old ones in your next birth; then again cut off, again renewal in the new life, and so on and on it goes endlessly through lives after lives.
You have had thousands of wives and children in your past lives, but do you remember any of them now, or does anyone of them remember you now? If this is true and the contact is so short and ever-changing, why worry and wail about it? Once when we definitely know that this is all short-lived and to go, why have any reliance or attachment to such things?
It is like the 150 villages en route from Nagpur to Jabalpur, where you stop to rest, have a meal and spend one night. You meet a number of people at every halt, but forget them once you go on to the next station. Life is like that.
There is truly nothing that belongs to you. All is transitory and ever-changing in nature. What belongs to you today will tomorrow belong to someone else, and the day after to a third person. So why worry over things that never belonged to you? If you have no idea of possession you will never suffer. So don't try to "possess" anything ... which will free you from any cause for disappointment or worry.
And don't think of material prosperity and possession through Guru-krupa [the grace of a Master]. Why? A true guru whose mission in life is to keep his followers away from Maya and mayavic possessions, would strip you of these gradually, take you out of the dirt of Maya rather than let you get deeper in it. And this means suffering, one way or another. But that is necessary for any desired progress on the Path — rather that is the true life of the spiritual aspirant, a life of suffering and sacrifice. That should be accepted with delight and with a feeling of being glorified in suffering.