Parenting & Spirituality : Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha


Sunday, September 06, 2020.

While to some extent desire and consequent burdens are quite usual with household life, the fact remains that this plight robs away the very purpose and fruition of the householder. The question is: Do you like such a plight? If you do not, the straight answer will be: be free of undue desire and the burden it fetches. Learn to live in peaceful harmony and welfare.

Desire of any nature always constricts the mind. Such constriction disables the mind to express itself fully, healthily, and harmoniously.Understand this mental truth and always think of avoiding desires and the consequent torments. In reality, it is not desire but something else far higher that should verily work in the human. The truth about it will be known only through right exposure and enlightenment.

To have a child is to be happier. With the child and the consequent involvement, if the very objective of happiness is adversely affected, is there not something wrong in our attitude? And then, does not the situation call for re-evaluation? With the childbirth, you have assumed a new status – one of the Creator, like Brahmaa, the Creator of the world.

This too is a great, good and complex role. Have you become awake to this? Or is it that you are not able to rise to its lofty level in your mind,intelligence and ego? Will you examine your inner framework and find out where it stands?

Your spiritual practices, in fact, should have been intensified with your new status. For, by that alone you can detect the deficiencies and strive to redress them. Think whether this is so or not.

One important spiritual discipline is: Do not do what you like. Learn to do what is necessary. Likewise, do not always try to avoid what you dislike. That may not be possible. You want to be at home, but that is not possible. You do not like to be in office; that too is impossible. What then? Learn to accept what you dislike.


This means your effort must be to culture a refinement and loftiness whereby the mind will always rise above its likes and dislikes. Develop a broad and creative platform to be able to do whatever is necessary and desirable.

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