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THE BIRTH OF A BEAUTIFUL HOME
examining. Can a person live alone? If he could, why would he accept the bondage of relationships? Can a lonely person not feel content? If he could, why would he take upon himself the burden of others' discontent? The reality is that no human being can live alone.
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The first law of Nature is that man and woman are two living beings. The second law of Nature is that the union of man and woman perpetuates mankind. There cannot be any rule in the life of a person who leads an altogether solitary life. As soon as two persons live together, a number of rules come into existence, and the number goes on increasing.
Some of them are natural, others are man-made. The problem is that a systematic training of both is missing. No one can live together peacefully unless they are tolerant of others.
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The parents are the nucleus of a family. If their behaviour is refined, it gets reflected in their children. Children can never be like their parents. Though they inherit their genes, they are still different. Being too concerned or preoccupied about economic matters, parents fail to train their children. More and more people are growing up as 'individuals'; the collective consciousness is drying up. Many young people today are so engrossed in their own imagination that they are not grateful to their parents and plainly ignore other elderly family members. There is hardly any sense of obligation seen in them towards elderly people. Youths in prosperous families do provide their elders the requisite means of living, but polite and affectionate behaviour is often missing. How can the emotionally parched atmosphere of 'Homes for the Old' substitute for families? It is so strange that while people are showing increasing sensitivity towards animals and strangers afflicted with disease and disability, they are less sensitive to members of their own family. Even tolerance has the same pattern. People tolerate rudeness
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