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that they may lead their lives happily. Socially, these things have been considered as loans of parent on the parts of issues.
Mātsrņa and Pitộrņa These loans are expected to be returned by issues when they respect their parents and fulfill their all necessities of old age. But what to talk of respect and recovery of loans, issues do not care for their parent's proper life. In the modern society 99% parents are being neglected and ill-treated. They are unwanted guests. The unwanted guest is called as guest outwardly but inwardly his arrival is felt painful. The hoast, in stead of paying proper respect to him, wants and tries to remove him from his door. In the same way, these days old-parents are invited formally and outwardly but are disliked and disgusted informally and inwardly. Parents are badly criticised for what they have not done, but they are never praised for what they have done. They always try their level best to do what ever they can, for the betterment of their issues but they are ever condemned. It is almost impossible for old parents 10 adjust in their own families. If I am not wrong, a Sudra in Hindu society and an old man in his family have the same status because both are weak, neglected and negated. As negligence towards Sūdra causes violence in the society, in the same way, negligence towards old persons results into social violence.
Young people should not be ungrateful to the old persons of their families. It is old persons who have made them young by facing different troubles. Old persons have both legal and moral rights in their families though due to their age they become weak and dependents. They deserve all respects and regards from their issues. If young persons neglect the old persons of their families indirectly they invite the future negligence on their own parts because their own issues will also follow the same way of behaviour. Intensity of Ambition
Ambition is one of the constituents of human nature. Therefore everybody has his own ambition which inspires him to do all the best he can, inorder to fulfil it. Ambition makes a man active and labourious. Without ambition life becomes meaningless. It is ambition which makes a man poet, singer, scientist, philosopher, politician etc. Though ambition
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