Generation Gap

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

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cannot understand their individual innate nature (prakruti, prakriti), you interfere with them. Should you not recognize the differences in their individual nature?
Parents attempt to mold their children into replicas of themselves. They should let them blossbvom on their own. They should know the children's strong points and nurture them instead. Just observe their prakruti. Why must you fight with them?
In the Satyug, if one person were a rose in a household, then all the other members of that household would also be roses and if in another household, one were a jasmine, they would all be jasmine. These days, a home will have different types of flowers, individuals with distinct charateristics. Do you understand my point? The fields of crops of the same type of Satyug have turned into the gardens of varied flowers in Kaliyug, the current era of the time cycle. But what can anyone do when people do not know how to look at things? If you do not know how to perceive and accept these differences in nature, you will be hurt. The world does not have this insight. No one is truly bad. All these differences of opinion arise because of one's ego. Your ego stems from not having this insight. If you could perceive things as they are, there is no such thing as pain. I have no conflicts with anyone in this world. I perceive all the different prakritis; whether one is a rose, a lily, a tulip or any other flower. (P.239)
It is worth getting to know everyone in the garden. When I give this analogy to the parents, they begin to understand and recognize the different prakrutis of their children. Just understand them once and then deal with them accordingly. There will not be any problems if you act according to their prakrutis. Do you not accommodate your friend's prakruti? In the same way you have to look at their prakruti and understand them and deal with them accordingly. Then you will not have any conflicts in the home, but parents nowadays go to extremes to make their children just like themselves. (P.243)
The entire world is in search of knowledge that deals with worldly interactions. This is not a religion, but a way that shows you the art of living in this world. It shows you how to adjust with your wife, your children and everyone else.
Because people cannot recognize different prakrutis, I have written the following sentence in a book: "Homes today have become gardens, so one must make the best of it now." If a father is very noble and generous but his son is stingy, he will resent him and try to make the son just like him. This is not possible, because the son has his own distinct personality.
These words are such that they bring about a solution to domestic conflicts and bring harmony into people's lives. People search for words that take away their pain, comfort them and help them in their lives. No one has ever shown them such simple and applicable solutions. (P. 247)