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wives have not learnt now to respect and to take care of your old parents, you will be treated far worse; your physical excercises and sports, good and healthy food and sober habits are for your long healthy and happy life, not for developing brute strength for violence and attack but only for self-defence and protection of the sick and the weak from aggresion and attack, Always try to ponder over the cultural differences between yourselves and those with whom you are neighbours or in business or sucial life or any other kind of associations and organisations. Generally your culture is to live passively in peace while others with whom you are surrounded overwhelmingly here, have their past which has created in them vital instincts to be assertive and to fight with brute strength; your first love is religion while these others have their first love'in collection and comfort made possible by science and technology; You, if at all lapse in anything normally lapse in meditation and God's worship while these others lapse and can feel happy only when they articulate, talk, discuss and fight; you marry first and then love while these others first love, make experiments, take liberties and then decide to marry only to be separate later even at the cost of what they together may have created and built up: in other words your marriage is the beginning of a love-affair while for these others it is only a happy end to their romance; your love, admiration and appreciation for all that is kind and beautiful is mute and silent because it comes from heart and not from tongue as is theirs; your possessions if precious you try to conceal while these others only delight in showing off to prove only superficial superiority; in short for you the secret of survival is your self-abnegation while these others believe only in assertion as the key of their success and survival.
Just think, take some moments off from your daily runs, practise 'Samayika' on all these virtues and cultural inheritance to see if you wish to abandon any of them to adopt any one of the traits of these others. I do not say, take nothing or that these others have nothing to give to you. With money and comfort and the freedom you cherish, there certainly are many more quali
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