You and Yours (on parenting) :- 10.

Youth today, is misguided, by external evil forces, such as different wings of dirty political parties and politicians - Congress, communists, all family owned regional parties, foolish media, and other evils, such as Christians and Muslims, fundamentalist / arrogant / separatist - Huriyat of Kashmir + foolish stone pelting youth, /showing dis-respect to the Nation .... .. Here Swami Tejomayananda, Sishya of Swami Chinmayananda, says on Parenting... Listen carefully ...

Opinion
31/01/2018
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All Members,
         Respected family members of this great holy Nation.

VERY IMPORTANT FOR THE PRESENT DAY PARENTS : - to direct their children

The question of how to live the values of life is not a new one faced only in modern times. It is as old as our scriptures. This is a weakness that every person faces in his life - the contradiction between his knowledge and his living.

Sub : You and Yours (on parenting) :- 10.
 Swami Tejomayananda

The Mahatma said, “Come after one month.” She went away and after one month brought the child again. The Mahatma took the child near him, spoke to him and told him, “Don’t eat chocolates like this, you will spoil your teeth.”

The child promised, “I will not eat now.”

The mother said, “If you had to tell him only this much, why did you ask me to come after one month?”

The Mahatma replied, “The simple reason is, I was also eating chocolates till then ! So, if I had told him at that time, it would have lacked conviction.” It is true that if I don’t do a thing and tell others to do it, it does not have any conviction, no force. What is the difference between the ordinary person and extraordinary person? The great man is able to live what he understands and what he says, while the other person knows a lot, but he is not able to live it – that’s all.

Now, we come to the children. People are getting very anxious about their children and their future, but they don’t take care of the present. Without taking care of the present, we cannot take care of the future. Nowadays, there is another peculiar thinking: I am taking good care of my child. I am sending him to the best school. Best school means, the most expensive!

We are spending a lot of money on the children but not in the children. Another thing is that, because of industrial civilization, both the husband and the wife go to work and if any lady says that she is not working, people are surprised. This is because working has come to mean only, ‘working in the office’. So, a housewife has an inferiority complex. Making money is more important than making a man. That is modern thinking. People think that making a child is nothing as compared to making money.

To be continued ..