You and Yours (on parenting) :- 5.

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
25/12/2017.
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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) :-5

 Swami Tejomayananda

5.1

The third type is the lowest: A finite little thing is taken as the whole – that alone is life. For some people, money is everything. Actually, money is only one aspect out of the many things of life. Money also has got a place, but if someone says that money is God and money is everything, then what happens? Only one part is taken for the whole. The result is that when money is lost, he is lost. Some people commit suicide because they don’t get a first class first. It is good to have it as a goal, but that doesn’t mean that you will get it every time. But if you consider that alone as the most important thing then it is not right. Such an attitude is the cause for frustration, disappointment and dejection.

5.2

So, one vision is seeing oneness in all differences, the other is seeing only differences, while the third is taking only one part to be the whole and getting exclusively attached to one thing – that’s how people become fanatics. All these wars are fought by fanatic people. People say that religion has created all problems. No, it is fanaticism that has created problems. If I love somebody and am ready to kill another person for that sake, it is exclusive attachment.

5.3

So, our life pattern, our responses – all these things depend upon our vision. And, how many people are there who really think thoroughly and deeply on it? I told you, everybody has got that vision, but we are not aware that we fall in this category. Only when examples are given do I realize that I fall in one of these categories.

To be continued ...

Note :

1. So, one vision is seeing oneness in all differences, the other is seeing only differences, while the third is taking only one part to be the whole and getting exclusively attached to one thing – that’s how people become fanatics. All these wars are fought by fanatic people.

2.
People say that religion has created all problems. No, it is fanaticism that has created problems. If I love somebody and am ready to kill another person for that sake, it is exclusive attachment.

3.
There is another problem because parents are living double standards in life. They live one kind of life, but they want the child to be different. It does not happen like that. You don’t want to be unhappy and you don’t want your child also to be unhappy and, therefore, it is necessary that we have the right values and also expose the child to those values and that kind of atmosphere.

4.
Therefore, You and Yours – in this value clarification, if only the vision is clear, all other things come naturally because they become only an expression of that one vision. So, if the question is, why are we not able to live the values, I have given you the reasons.

5.
We have made some kind of analysis. Your child is not different from you and you are not different from your child. Therefore, what you are, your child will be. Now you have to decide what you want yourself to be and your child to be, because the choice is yours.

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