IMMORTAL LIGHT - TRAINING OF CHILDREN

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OM AMRITESWARYAI NAMAH

 

IMMORTAL LIGHT - Training of Children

 

The importance of love and respect

 

Children should respect their elders. Rising when elders enter the

room, sitting down only after they take their seat, answering them

politely, obeying their instructions, refraining from making fun of

them or answering them loudly or in a contrary way, these are all

essential for the welfare of the family.

 

Similarly, when little children ask for permission to go outside,

grown-ups should give their permission by a loving kiss. Children

should have the feeling that they are loved. Our love for children

should not be like honey hidden inside a stone.

 

The foundation for all rituals and customs should be love. Mere acts

without appropriate attitude is useless. Everything should be done

with humility, devotion and a pure motive. For discipline to develop

there should be humility and obedience. Our humility and obedience

are like the grease for a machine: if we run the machine without the

lubircation, it will certainly be ruined.

 

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>From the book of Immortal Light - Advice to Householders

(english translation of the original Malayalam "Amrita Jyoti")

Amma Sharanam