WHAT
PARENTS DONT TEACH
We see around us a rat race for material success, money and status. It is a rat race where many a suicide is seen and many a mental breakdown and depression results.
This rat race begins right at home when the children are goaded to get good grades in school, when they are goaded to get good jobs, high salaries and cars and houses.
When a student fails to come up to the
We see around us a rat race for material success, money and status. It is a rat race where many a suicide is seen and many a mental breakdown and depression results.
This rat race begins right at home when the children are goaded to get good grades in school, when they are goaded to get good jobs, high salaries and cars and houses.
When a student fails to come up to the
expectations
of his parents he either goes into a state of mental instability or if he fails
he commits suicide.
Paradoxically the great successes in lfe, the great career oriented young folk with MCA's and MBA's who are drawing huge salaries and living in high rise apartments are also becoming more and more mentally unstable and even committing suicide.
The greatest success rate in the Information Technology is in Bangalore in india - and the highest suicide rate is also there.
Discontent is on the rise, tempers are running high, the incidents of road rage, domestic violence and divorce is on the increase. Man appears to be becoming the enemy of man in this highly competitive world.
Spiritual gurus are making hay while the sun shines and propagating their own missions, telling people to give up their material wealth and hand it over to them so that they can run their ashrams to help people even more.
There is a sense of confusion all around. What is the purpose of human existence? Of what use the rate race for material possessions and wealth when it has given no peace to man?
Wherein lies the fault! Today the older generation complain of lack of respect from the youngsters, complain of being neglected and thrown aside, as obstacles to their enjoyment.
Yet, who is to blame? Let the older generation go back to those days when they were breathing down the necks of their children goading them prodding them to achieve better and better grades in school get higher and higher jobs.
If the children were taken to places of worship and faith in God was instilled in them, it was for their own selfish needs. God too became a tool to give them greater material wealth and success.
Where did the elders fail?
They failed because no one told the children about things like
contentment, things like compassion, things like helping others in need, things like loving even strangers, things like unselfishness,
things like respecting the feelings of others, things like not telling lies, things like not being dishonest, things like not being violent, things like forgiveness, things like love, faith and service.
There was no time to tell them all this, in the midst of their busy schedules, school hours, and tuitions and exams. No, these were accessories which were ignored completely. And today we are witnessing a Frankenstein monster of our own creation.
Did the elders educate them and goad them on to greater success in life only to watch them commit suicide?
The same parents who had goaded their children on to greater and greater success are afraid to say even a word to them to "bring them to the right path".
Paradoxically the great successes in lfe, the great career oriented young folk with MCA's and MBA's who are drawing huge salaries and living in high rise apartments are also becoming more and more mentally unstable and even committing suicide.
The greatest success rate in the Information Technology is in Bangalore in india - and the highest suicide rate is also there.
Discontent is on the rise, tempers are running high, the incidents of road rage, domestic violence and divorce is on the increase. Man appears to be becoming the enemy of man in this highly competitive world.
Spiritual gurus are making hay while the sun shines and propagating their own missions, telling people to give up their material wealth and hand it over to them so that they can run their ashrams to help people even more.
There is a sense of confusion all around. What is the purpose of human existence? Of what use the rate race for material possessions and wealth when it has given no peace to man?
Wherein lies the fault! Today the older generation complain of lack of respect from the youngsters, complain of being neglected and thrown aside, as obstacles to their enjoyment.
Yet, who is to blame? Let the older generation go back to those days when they were breathing down the necks of their children goading them prodding them to achieve better and better grades in school get higher and higher jobs.
If the children were taken to places of worship and faith in God was instilled in them, it was for their own selfish needs. God too became a tool to give them greater material wealth and success.
Where did the elders fail?
They failed because no one told the children about things like
contentment, things like compassion, things like helping others in need, things like loving even strangers, things like unselfishness,
things like respecting the feelings of others, things like not telling lies, things like not being dishonest, things like not being violent, things like forgiveness, things like love, faith and service.
There was no time to tell them all this, in the midst of their busy schedules, school hours, and tuitions and exams. No, these were accessories which were ignored completely. And today we are witnessing a Frankenstein monster of our own creation.
Did the elders educate them and goad them on to greater success in life only to watch them commit suicide?
The same parents who had goaded their children on to greater and greater success are afraid to say even a word to them to "bring them to the right path".
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