February, Thursday 4th., 2021
Today's Thought for the Day
04 Feb 2021
Most parents have very high expectations of their children, and that is quite natural. But what should parents do for that? Bhagawan gives parents and elders an important advice.
If
you tell your son, when you are actually at home, to reply on the phone
saying ‘father is not at home’, you are sowing a poisonous seed, which
will become a huge tree. Parents set bad examples uttering falsehood,
scandalising others, gambling, drinking, behaving violently, inflicting
injury, becoming addicted to night-clubs, movies and drinking parties,
and quarrelling at home after arriving home past midnight. How can
children, used to such low sights and sounds, learn to become bright,
fresh fragrant flowers of the Sanatana Garden of India? Many such
parents do not allow their children to join the Bal Vikas Classes, or to
attend bhajans and satsangs. They say that religion and God are only for idlers or old senile people, and that the path will lead them on to sanyas
(mendicancy), which is a calamity to be avoided! They reverse the very
values of life. Parents must correct themselves before they try to
correct their children.
- Divine Discourse, Jan 6, 1975.