Generation Gap

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

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mother.
Dadashri: Can you purchase a mother? Even if you could, she would be no good to you. What good is a fair and a pretty mom? The mother that you have is good and she is the one for you. You should not compare her with someone else's mother. You should praise her for what she is.
People, who wholeheartedly care for their parents, find peace. That is the law of nature. People ask me what fault lies on their part, when their children do not care for them. I tell them it is because the parents themselves never cared for their own parents. This entire generation has gone astray. If a new one began all over, it would be a better one. (P.566)
Questioner: What should we feel about our father?
Dadashri: Keep him happy. (P.564)
Parents are parents. Your primary obligation in this world is your duty to your parents. Will you take care of them?
This science of the Soul flourishes by caring for the elderly. People revere and worship stone idols and look after them, but do the idols have aching limbs or feelings? The elderly, the parents and the guru should be served and cared for. (P.567)
Questioner: Yes, I help around the house. (P. 565)
Dadashri: Do you want peace?
Your duty and religion is to care for your parents. Regardless of the kind of karmic accounts you have with them, they should be cared for. You will receive as much happiness as you give to them.
Questioner: Yes. I do.
Dadashri: I will help you with that, but have you ever taken care of your parents? You will always have peace if you take care of them. Nowadays, people do not help and they do not take care of their parents sincerely. At the age of thirty, the boy finds a guru (wife) who demands to be taken to a new home. Have you seen such a guru? After the age of twenty or thirty years he changes because of his guru. When she complains about his mother, at first he refuses to listen but eventually he agrees with her and begins to resent his own
I ran into a man at an ashram. He told me that he had been living there for the last ten years. I knew his parents and told him that they were poverty-stricken, suffering tremendously and dying. He told me that he was helpless and could not do anything for them because if he were to leave the ashram to take care of them, he would be neglecting his religious practices. How can anyone call this a religion? Religion is to care for others. People's worldly interactions should be ideal. How can any interaction that causes a person to neglect his own