You and Yours (on parenting) :- 8.

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
17/01/2018.
 1091.
                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) :-8
 Swami Tejomayananda

So, please know one thing clearly – these values are eternal. Any prosperity, peace or happiness will come only when we follow these values. Do we not get that happiness because for me money is what is important and not honesty if I cannot get money?

This means that honesty is meant for getting money. I value money, not honesty. So that is why we are not able to love these values. A value must be lived for its own sake. I must be truthful because truthful I must be. But I want to be truthful so that I may get something – that is wrong.

So, no vision – number one ; values are imposed on us and we cannot live somebody else’s values ; and thirdly, we do not have the conviction, and superficially, it appears that these values have lost their content and utility today.

But I tell you, any prosperity that is there depends upon these values. Secondly, when you live the immoral and corrupt way, there are always agitations in your mind and also fear. But when we are truthful we are fearless.

Moreover, these values are lived not for someone else’s sake, but for our own sake. If you understand this much, your life will be most wonderful and when you are like that, your children will also be like that. What you are, children are most likely to be like that. The child will be exposed to a particular kind of atmosphere and learn.

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.

Thank you for reading
           JAIHIND.
VANDE MATHARAM.

** For previous editions, refer blog " Character"