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Guidance to Guardians
• Carry on with the upbringing task'in a caring manner. • Love your children a lot during their childhood days.
Equip them with various skills and talents once they attain the required intellect and grasping power. Introduce them to learned masters who will impart to them the meaning and significance of God, Guru and Dharma and teach them the importance of their .
presence in their lives. • Marry your son/daughter to the right partner if he/
she does not wish to renounce the world. Teach them the ways to manage the worldly life comprising of home and business and gradually handover the reins of business and home management to them. Do not praise them too much in their presence. However at the appropriate time do pat their backs.
Do oversee the income and expenses of their business. • Share your political contacts and make him aware of
the global scenerio also. Ensure that he doesn't get embroiled in mis-deeds and vices. Despite that, if he still goes astray, do steer him back on the right path by giving instances of the state of people trapped in such vices and mis-deeds.
Ref. : 'Hitopdeshmala' A Jain Scripture by Prabhanandsuri
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