Climax of familial Abnegation
The abnegation is a great incantation of the unity/oneness. Ram renounced kingdom foi fulfilling the words of his father. Bharat remembering the grief of the exile of Ram to the forest, renounced royal palace & royal enjoyments lived life like a dweller in the forest even living in the palace.
Laxman established a unique record of brotherly love by accompanying Ram-Seeta in the forest. Seeta following Ram renounced all means of pleasures and facilities. Precisely, the climax of renunciation towards each other makes the life, person and family ideal which is exemplary for all.
Well, the glory of the ideal proves the importance of life as well as it establishes the life at the peak level.
O conscious Lord!
To become carrier of the sacramental culture, is an excellent work. Precisely, the continued succession of sacraments keeps alive our venerated deities, Teerthankaras. ascetics, great personage. Had there not been the flow of sacraments then assuming life, building of lively temples of human values would have been meaningless.
Our parents are the living incantation of safeguarding the culture who fulfil their liability for their offsprings. They establish harmony by distributing sweet of amity with love affection, close affinity and brotherly relationship with great abnegation on their part.
O soul! Well, the houses are built with bricks, cement, iron rods, gitti (road stones) but the real home is made of our mutual behaviour, conduct and sacraments which keep all of us safe in one thread by the light of the attribute of the Jeeva’s knowledge, affinity, of the reality of the soul and sensation of consciousness.
Our elderly people take car e of our present and the present showing respect towards elderly people learns the living lesson of life from their past preiod. Elderly people (old ones) are huge banyan tree where there is no sun-light of grief, pain, worry discomfort, one always gets only treasure of experience, dedication to living life like the excellent shelter/ shadow.
This very is the gift of old generation to the new generation and of the new generation is the charming festival of the devotion to the duty towards old genera-í tion.
O conscious soul! The Ram of Dashrath became Ram of the public at large. The Maryada Purshottam, i.e. the image of ethical propriety Ram has become Atmamm, i.e. individuated consciousness of we all for awakening our infinite strength of the soul, whose conduct being imprinted on the pages of history is still today a Ram of the living conduct.
He himself has become the Ram-bridge for the protection of the culture, sacrament patronage and a great Himalaya of social decorum.
Respecting the words of his father, he became a dweller of the forest. The chaste (sati) Seeta accepted sufferings of the forest like flowers following the foot-prints of her husband Ram. Bharat lived like dweller of the forest even living in the royal palace remembering the suffering of his brother Ram.
O soul litis climax of the familial abnegation in which all offering oblation of their individual pleasures not only honoured king Dashrath and Ayodhya but gave fundamental incantation of familial unity to the entire human society; presented unique ideal of renunciation of all means of pleasure and facilities discharging their individual duties.
This very is the great scripture of the totality of living life and keeping the living life alive. In this very the achievement of spiritual stage of soul, selflessness for becoming recluse (ascetic) and the great pleasure of the joint family is contained.
Feeling of amity and the value of social conduct are the back¬bone/ mainstay of the Indian culture. The Indian soil is precisely pious- pure only by this and only due to this, the India is great and the Indian culture is alive. In fact, that very is Indian in whose home, family such culture sacraments are found.
If it is not so. it may well be that you are called Indian because of taking birth on the motherland, but. in fact you are a foreigner by your heart, brain, garments, and way of living espe¬cially eating and drinking.
O soul! If each and every person realises his duly, abides by it, pays respect to young and old, takes care of young-old and shares out affection with them then the family shall itself be like the sacrificial rite in which all its members offering oblation of their sense of duty related to means of their pleasure and facilities can safeguard each warp and woof of the joint family, who shall evolve human civilization human values, self honour & respect.
This very is true that every member of the family should necessarily fulfil his first duty and effort to retain/ preserve the joint family alive. Living separately the thing of daily use like salt, chilly, spices, etc would also cost much. If even a member of joint family unfortunately falls in trouble then remaining members of the family share his difficulty as their own and do not even let him feel of the trouble.
This very is the test of the patience duty/ religion, friend, brother and trust of woman. Only at the time of adversity our and others/ friends and foe are known in real sense and the family relations, etc. are tested.
One who does not come forward to help his own people in need, even being theirs own, how will he extend helping hand to friends? How will he effort for the progress of the society? .i.e., who does not extend helping hand to his own family member and to anybody, who would come forward to help him in the hour of his need? This very is the reverberation of the echo, reaction of the action.
O judicious one! The knowledge is not that which is simply a store of words, hearing which ears are satiated, the tongue may be honoured learning by it rote. The true religion/ attribute is that which may be of use in social behaviour. Even the Guru loves that disciple who may live imprinting the teachings of Guru on his mind/ life. The grief’s of the world do not grieve the virtuous conductful learned one.
Thorns do not pierce him and he also neither makes any one grieved nor pricks thorns to anyone. The first duty is of parents who give birth that they should keep the heart and brain of their offsprings sound, broad-hearted installing in them good sacraments. The second duty is of children that they should enhance the honour, decorum, dignity of their family tradition and prestige of the parents. We should lead life
like the deities of the heavens should make their home heaven and each member should live together like the deities.
O knower of the soul! Acquaint yourself with soul, that very is the store of imperishable pleasures, where the immortality of self-wealth is shining continually beyond the cycle of life and death. You should not only become an exhorter for the beauty of the soul but should spare time for the children of the family; should recognize the grief and understand their needs.
Always give good sacraments/impression under the cool shadow of affinity for averting/ destroying the suffering of the world. If you become a responsible person for carrying out your liabilities in a proper manner taking advantage of your experiences then your offspring will worship you like a pious temple and shall get heavenly pleasure on your feet.
C worthy sons of Indian soul! You have certainly took birth, but it is absolutely necessary that you should understand your liability as well, who gave birth, fostered, made you grownup, made you a good human being by arranging good education for you, for them you should spare at least two hours for carrying out your moral responsibility towards them, you are so much indebted to the parents of your one birth that if you cause them to swing in the cradle till your whole life even then you cannot repay their debt.
You are neither indebted to your wife nor to your sons & daughter and the wife is also not indebted to her husband but each man and woman is certainly indebted to their respective parents.
You should not regard your parents as burden, on the other hand, you should be grateful to them that your parents giving you good sacraments, taught you humanity and introduced you from human to the God. They renounced all their pleasure-facilities for fulfilling your desires.
Each parent visit their future in their children. They do ceaseless effort for making their life most beautiful creation and that very creation become so heartless, ungrateful which kicks away its own creator, re¬proaches and makes their living difficult. Oh! who regards us as their
own future, could we not live becoming even their today? There is only one God on this virtuous earth, which gives shape to the shapeless; who lives making his children’s pulsation as the pulsation of his own. That God is our parents.
If we could offer them who are our life- givers even a little part of the benefaction done by our parents like Sharavankumar, then we will get that indecaying store of their blessing I on our own from their, accumulated treasure of virtues like the Kalpavraksha’ a (wish-fulfilling-tree).
During childhood we made the bed of the parents wet and as grown up we are making their eyes wet. they taught you walking holding your fingers, they took you to school. They breathed in the darkness of the griefs, so that you may be happy. They used to laugh before you but remained weeping in lonely place.
Today when they have become weak, incapable, ill, old then you should hold their palm, i.e., support them, you should take them for visiting places of pilgrimage, for visiting Guru, to the temple for worshipping and for daily recitation of eulogical prayers, etc.
so that the transcendental splendour of Shravankumar who was an ideal sonofhis blind parents by birth could see itself alive by your dutifulness and behaviour, may experience pleasure in your unique pleasure.
Each mother-in-law should understand her daughter-in-law as her own daughter; should recognize her necessity and should teach her lessons of courage and patience; should experience her grief as her own. Daughter-in-law of today should also regard her father-in-law ‘s house and each of its members as family members of her own home.
It all the members of the family live, wear clothes, talk with good manners, proper etiquette then even the atomic power of the world cannot break the family. We should not go ahead with our own personal ambition but should be ready to move unhesitatingly sensing the nerve of the time and should prefer the beneficence of the family.
The family does not exist because of you but your very existence is there only due to family. If this very thought illuminates the mind of all then the family will be huge enough like the banyan tree and even the existence of the !
heaven would he trille before your mutual love-affection and affinity/ intimaey, the relation between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law would be divine and pious relation like the relation between mother and daughter.
The courtyard of the house illuminates with golden light and shade precisely in this purity. You must always share sweetness of love among all the members of the family and must defend the delicate thread of affinity with seven-colour rainbow of coordination.
The world dwells in the trust, hence you behave with mutual trust. There is great necessity of mutual harmony for saving the solitary life from griefs and for maintaining the mutual equilibrium among all for which four points should be adhered to-
Trust- should keep trust among each other.
Time- should spare time for sitting, discussing family issues to¬gether.
Talking- should maintain living and sweet speaking terms with each other.
Touch- should give and take mutual cooperation.
When our heart w ill be so broad then the dirt cannot enter it and there can be no rise of misunderstanding among us. If the doors of the dialogue are kept open then the pus of enmity does not enter in discus¬sion. the mutual amity does not break.
Indeed, the co-existence does not destroy if there is simplicity of mind and spirit of mutual coopera¬tion and not even the play of hide & seek happens. The origination of all perversities remains in the black heartedness.
The seeds of mutual acrimony get enlarged during course of time due to small-orbit of T & ’Mine-ness’. When the love and affection is the breath of life the kinship and intimacy is the sequence of living life, mutual cooperation is the living body and the honour and respect of elders are divine eyes, then how the joint family could be scattered, how the wall of ours and others stand in the flowing flow of life?
Just there is need of mutual under- standing and concord in which the home is made heaven and each
member oí the home live like deities.
This very offering of love, renunciation, feeling of kinship and collaboration make the family as an ideal one. The mystery of heaven precisely resides in the waip and woof of ethical proprieties, only then the home gets the beauty of temple and father-mother get the honour like the God.
Such type of home is built with the bricks of good feeling of the members of the family and gets strength by dutifulness of its members. You should stress/emphasize more on mutual affection and affinity than on wealth & property which are good means for making others as our own.
By filling the gap/crack of the heart of all we can make it a river saving their heart from becoming a fissure, i.e. removing their mutual misunderstanding, then only the society will be built with the family and the nation with the society, where the festivals of Holi, Deepavali. Raksha bandhan and the music of the dignity of the nation shall remain unbroken/ indestructible like the divine melody of the sea.
The field of religion is generous. It is not narrow – hearted and it does not hate anyone, rather accepts that all men can not be of same tendency. Just as the traveller of one and same path walk but some go ahead while others lag behind. If some one falls down, he should not loose patience and standing up again should go ahead on the path. He should not think of leaving the path at all.
