If you tell your son, when you are actually at home, to reply on the phone saying ‘father is not at home’, you are sowing a poisonous seed, which will become a huge tree. Parents set bad examples uttering falsehood, scandalising others, gambling, drinking, behaving violently, inflicting injury, becoming addicted to night-clubs, movies and drinking parties, and quarrelling at home after arriving home past midnight. How can children, used to such low sights and sounds, learn to become bright, fresh fragrant flowers of the Sanatana Garden of India? Many such parents do not allow their children to join the Bal Vikas Classes, or to attend bhajans and satsangs. They say that religion and God are only for idlers or old senile people, and that the path will lead them on to sanyas (mendicancy), which is a calamity to be avoided! They reverse the very values of life. Parents must correct themselves before they try to correct their children.
Bagavan Sri Sri Sri Sathya Sai Baba
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