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AMAR VANI
Have you given them training in religion and good conduct ? Have you ever adopted wrong means to provide them with food, clothes and shelter ? Have you ever cherished the feelings of jealousy and enmity against the children of others ? How far have you promoted love and goodwill among your own children, or the members of your family or the children in your neighbourhood ? Take care that you do not sow the poisonous seeds of casteism, individualism or class distinction in the tender hearts and soft feelings of your children ?
Sister, if you are a wife, just consider whether you have faithfully performed the duties of a wife. Have you poisoned the mind of your husband against other members of your family ? Have you not loved, respected and served your father-in-law and mother-in-law as your own father and mother ? Have you wasted much of your time in indulgence and pleasures of life and neglected the great necessity of cleanliness ? Have you vexed your husband for good clothes and ornaments even when you know that the financial position of your husband does not permit this ? Have you not promoted mutual love and goodwill between yourself and your sisters-in-law and neighbours ? Have you ever judged yourself by the standards of Sita. and Draupadi ? Do you grumble, complain or make faces towards others ? What is expected of you is that you should bloom like a rose and scatter fragrance of good conduct and cheerful temper all around you. You should scatter the fragrance of your soul in the entire atmosphere,
Man, if you are a husband, just consider whether you have faithfully performed the duties of a husband ? Have you considered your wife as a partner in every walk
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