I realize that there are so many day-to-day responsibilities which you must fulfill in this role as wife, mother (and daughter, too). By their very nature, these responsibilities remind one of their connection to the material body. They must be performed, and cannot artificially be rejected. But there must be an internal cultivation as well, which protects one from excessive attachment and the entanglements that follow along with it.
(Collected Letters to My Disciples, Pg 132 , last Paragraph)