PUJYA SHREE MOTA

Thursday, May 4, 2017

DEVELOP GOOD QUALITIES (GUNAS, ગુણો) IN CHILDREN.

It is not going to work without developing good qualities. We have to develop good qualities. Good qualities are needed even in worldly life. Our people do not have much importance of it. In old times — 100-125 years back — older people used to teach and develop such good qualities in children. It does not mean that they were giving advice about it. They never said" do this or do that". They showed them definite works so that such good qualities automatically develop in them e.g If they want to develop fearlessness they would tell the child to get some cow urine from certain place for their personal use at night around 10 pm. Parents used to send their children to develop other good qualities also. Such qualities should be developed in any case. Parents understood that it is important to develop such qualities in children and they deliberately helped children to develop good qualities. These days the parents do not have such vision precluding this possibility. In fact they increase the fear in children by telling them" Don't do that otherwise police will take you ". They increase the fear instead of decreasing it. Children should be sent in darkness (under supervision), taught to swim and inspire them to do difficult work that is hard for them to accomplish. All these good qualities should be instilled in children at young age. This kind of vision and understanding is lacking in today's society.

Pujya Shree Mota Sathe Satsang
Grah - Grahan
Edition 1; page 23.