Thus Spake The Lord

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Thus Spake The Lord

 

 

 

Women are taking to modern education in larger and larger numbers nowadays. They are serving in offices, schools and factories. They are also rising to positions of authority in other fields. But most of them are prompted by urges of personal aggrandizement rather than ideals of service. When women run after jobs, who is to run the family? If both father and mother move into offices to earn money, what becomes of the children? Pouring over books, how can the kitchen work? More money may be earned, but it leads only to more anxiety, more unrest and more loss.

 

The women who take up jobs are finding that they have no happiness worth the name. The educated woman must utilize her knowledge and skill to bring up her children into healthy, vigorous and disciplined youths who may be of use to their country, their culture and their community. Earning money is not the end-all of education.

 

You have the great responsibility of motherhood and the duty of educating your children into strong and good citizens of the country. Along with the university degree, you must also acquire general knowledge which is essential for householders and others. Otherwise, though the husband and the wife may both be degree-holders, they would be helpless and desperate should the baby catches a slight cold. You must also be conversant with some spiritual disciplines like naamasmarana, meditation and Yoga, so that you may not be carried away by every changing breeze. Women are the makers of the home, the nation and the world. You are the mothers who shape the generations. So, you must enshrine in your hearts the spiritual urge towards Light and Love, Wisdom and Bliss.

 

 

 

Reference: Sathya Sai Speaks; Vol. XIV, P. 76-77.

Sathya Sai Speaks; Vol. XIV, P. 79-80.