Our Children, Our Future - 12. Swami Chinmayananda

13/03/2017.

I.
It is time now, therefore, that the ladies start learning the cultural values of the country – for the sake of the children and the future. Or, the only other alternative is to stop producing children – let the young girls become nuns. Just as when we have got a disease and so refuse to marry and beget children because they to would suffer; similarly, we are not psychologically prepared the responsibilities of motherhood. However, this is very difficult. Therefore, the other obvious choice is to learn the scriptures.


II.
Don’t you think that the television program of Ramayana has changed the colour of thinking in this country to a large extent? In Delhi, where I was just now, at that time on Sunday morning there was not even any traffic on the road. Everyone seeing Ramayana.! They didn’t want to miss it. Why? In that old story you see the greater and nobler values being demonstrated which you are silently and expectantly hoping for in the youth of today. And you are charmed by it, because it belongs to the very genius of the country!


III.
So, it is not so difficult to impart these ideas to the children. But we need workers – mainly girls. For it is only the motherliness of the lady that can impart these things to growing children.
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