Maa Parmatmaa

Author(s): Namramuni
Publisher: Parasdham Mumbai

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A dissatisfied, demanding mother having expectations is never worshipped.
A mother who is free from expectations is the one who deserves to be closer to Parmatma - she is eligible to become a divine pure soul.
The best moment in a woman's life would perhaps be when she becomes a mother and experiences motherhood. If that is so, what must she do to become great and adorable? The world places a mother right at the top. The world acknowledges the position of a mother. A mother's world revolves around her child, and if expectations of the mother are completely nullified, then, she will do well for her child and herself too, like the Supreme Lord, but if she is bounded by her own expectations, then, she will surely cause harm.
Without expectations, she fosters well-being and with expectations, she inflicts pain.
In Jain history, there is a story of a king who renounces the world at a young age. The king was a father to an innocent child. The child grows up with all the materialistic pleasures around him. The queen's deliberate efforts to keep her child engrossed in numerous comforts and luxuries, was to keep the child away from the thoughts of renouncing the world like his father. She was worried and wanted to prevent the child from possibly becoming a monk!!!