You and Yours (on parenting) :- 9.

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
24/01/2018.
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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) :-9
 Swami Tejomayananda

I do not know whether bringing up a child is a science or an art – I think it is both, because it has got a science of its own and you have to do it in an artistic manner. It is a very subtle thing because teaching I tell you is the most difficult art. Any other art is not that difficult – even in painting you can draw a little and tomorrow you can continue, but when you are teaching somebody, even at that time the mind is not available – it is distracted. So when you try to continue from where you left the previous day, the student says, “‘What did you say yesterday?’ He has already forgotten.

And when you say, “What? You have forgotten what I said yesterday?”

He replies, ‘You only said that we should not carry the memories of the past.!”

Every day the slate is clean. A painter’s canvas does not protest, but a student’s mind does. It goes on protesting, it goes on forgetting. So how does one teach? The best way of teaching is living the values. When we live that and when they observe it then only is teaching possible. That is why in the Geeta , it is said, “Yadyadacharati Shreshtah tattaddevetero janah” – Whatever a great one does or demonstrates, all other people only follow that.

It is never said, “Whatever a great man says, people follow.” If that was the case, the world would have been different. We never follow what somebody says – only what is lived by him. There is a story that you might have read or heard. A mother took her child to a Mahatma. The child was addicted to eating chocolates, toffees, etc., so much that he was spoiling his teeth. She told the Mahatma, “Please tell him. My telling him has had no effect.”

To be continued ...

Note :-

1. Today, women and Children are abused by men all over ...

2. Parents are not taking serious about this;

3. Children are never taught how to behave with others at very early age;

4. Children are not taught how to respect others;

5. Boys are let loose, and no overall supervision;

6. Girls are suppressed and weekened mentally, turn them into submissive;

7. The present day rapes, molestations of women and children happen because of these prejudicial treatments only;

8. Parents should be punished for these evils in the society;

9. Teachers are equally responsible, charecter and mental training is abscent in schools;

10. A National policy of education in spiritual training at early stages of school curriculam is very essential today.
To be continued

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