Our Children, Our Future - 10. Swami Chinmayananda

25/02/2017.

I.
You see, for the child who is watching all this, his whole moral education is over with these two incidents.

It is not many incidents that are necessary.

Even if the father does sit down with the child for 10 minutes, what will he talk?

Not the soft things of morality.

He can only pump into the child the ideals of ambition, greatness, success “Beta, you must grow up and become a doctor, an engineer, you must earn a lot of money and have your own place, etc.”

II.
It is the mother alone who imparts the soft values, who gives to you the ideals of charity, goodness, tenderness, affection and forgiveness.

She never imparts by giving you a discourse, but in her life the mother demonstrates these ideals and the child sees it, the idea becomes embedded in him.

To be continued ...