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must be awakened in every mother and the earth while the leaves dance in the sky, father, such is the aim of Arham Pregnancy. so also is the parent-child relationship. The
Pregnancy is the only stage in human life Mahabharata says that the glory of a mother when one's destiny is not in one's own hand, is greater than the earth and the stature of but in the hand of the mother. It is true that a father is higher than the sky. Along with the soul is the doer of its own karmas. But needing the protection of a womb, every due to certain divine intervention, during being also needs aspirations that touch the the nine months of pregnancy, the mother is
sky. No wonder then, while most people are given that right. It is a unique arrangement busy racing ahead of others, the father finds by which her life is now connected with two joy in seeing his child overtake him. lives - her own and that of the child in her Hence no one has the right to deny or womb. Whatever she does renders a greater question the importance of the relationship impact on the child in the womb than on between a father and child. The relationship her own self. We will encounter this truth between a husband and wife can be temporary, time and again in this journey of Arham but that of a father and child is a connection Pregnancy.
of the life-cycle. Those who do not understand The mother does not create merely the
the importance of this relationship, and remain body of her child, she also creates his life. She bitter or uncaring of either one's parent or offcan bring about reform as well as destruction. spring, must think again. A relationship that Only when one has the potential to become
is rooted in birth cannot become a matter a sculptor, one must take the stone and the of choice! It is not possible that one can chisel in one's hands. The same is true with stay detached or angry in such a relationmotherhood which is a state of creating and
ship and yet feel peaceful. Nurturing this nurturing the child.
relationship is human religion, emotional maturity and the glory of life.
On the basis of the Agamas, it is now The Magnificence of the Father
proven that a father can remove the negative The relationship of a father and child has been measured with the sky. Just as the
aura of his child by his own positive touch. roots of a tree are embedded deep within
To do so, he must go near his baby's forehead and gently feel it. While doing
of the
