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Practising the Wholesome Leaning
favorable only for one, who is blessed with wholesome Karmas. He can resort to the religious life and family members become helpful in making progress therein. They may also enter into competition with him in making the progress. The absence of wholesome and harmonious environments on the other hand leads to difference of opinion and loss of harmony in the family.
The pleasure lies in the mind, not in the objects. Even the tasty food seems tasteless, if there is some clash in the family. While even bare bread becomes tasty, if the environments are smooth and favorable. Pleasure is a function of contentment. There are many leaders and social workers, whose domestic life is ablaze. They fail to settle the domestic feuds and are out to serve the society and the country. What can we expect from them? One needs to remain cautious lest they extend their domestic clash elsewhere.
If one wants to be religious, he needs to cultivate the wholesome leanings. He should adopt a mode of life that his children and others would like to emulate. The Sanskrit term for a son is Ätmaj, which denotes born of the Self. He is the creation of parents' love and inherits their culture; what had been at their hearts could have embodied in the children. The children should now carry out the parents' expectations and aspirations. There is an interesting tale in this respect.
One young man was setting the tiles on a roof. In the afternoon, when it was too hot, he was called by his father to come down and take lunch. The young man did not respond and continued to set the tiles. The father was perturbed to see that the son was perspiring all over the body and still was not giving up the work. In order to get him down, the father tried a trick. He laid his grandson under the open sky. As the young man saw it, he immediately came down and picking up his son he asked his father, “Why did you put the child under the hot sun?” The father replied, “I wanted to show you how one loves his son. You will now be able to realize that you are as dear to me as is your son to you. I could not bear seeing you working under the hot sun and tried this trick to get you down."
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