Generation Gap

Author(s): Dada Bhagwan
Publisher: Dada Bhagwan Foundation

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come and go as he pleased without judging him. They were not to harbor any attachment (raag) or abhorrence(dwesh) towards him. They were to maintain equanimity and compassion towards him. After three or four years, this man turned into a good person. Today he is an invaluable asset in the family business. This world is not useless, but we need to know how to extract use from it. All beings are divine and each person has his or her own duty to fulfill. So do not harbor any dislike for anyone. (P.200)
I witnessed a man kicking the door of a toilet and I asked him why he was doing so. He told me that although he kept cleaning the toilet, it still smelt bad. How foolish it is to keep kicking the door because the lavatory smells bad? Whose fault is it? (P.201)
So many parents keep beating their children. Are these children punching bags? They are as fragile as glassware. So you must handle them with care. What would happen if you throw glassware? You must handle the children gently. (P. 204)
You worry about the children you have now, but what became of the children you had in your past life? What did you do with them? You have left your children behind in each lifetime. In some previous lives, you have even abandoned them while they were still helpless infants. Even though you did not want to, you were torn away from them. You have forgotten all that and then in this life you have some more children. So then
why are you quarelling all the time with your children? Guide them towards spirituality and they will improve. (P.209)
There was a little boy who was very difficult and he refused to swallow some cough syrup that his mother was giving him. He resisted his mother as she held out the spoon, so she pinched his nostrils and shoved the syrup into his mouth so that it gurgled down his throat. The next time she ventured do this; he spat the medicine into her face! This is the quality of a child; nine months in the mother's womb without paying rent and this is how she is repaid!(P.221)
A man complained to me that while two of his three sons were brilliant and hardworking, one of them was a failure. He admitted that he had no complaints about two of his sons but the third one would come home drunk every night and was a constant source of misery for him. If the son saw that his father was still awake, he would yell abuse at him, so the father would spy on his son from behind a window. As soon as the son came home he would collapse on his bed and doze off to sleep, while his father would lay awake half the night worrying about him. I told the father that the fault was his own because he was the one was suffering. I went on to tell the father that he was responsible for his son's drinking problem and that in his past life he pushed this addiction onto his son and then abandoned him. So now in this life he was paying for this debt that he created in his past life. Now he will have to endure it. The fault is of the sufferer! While the son doses off to sleep