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his mind. He had taken a large stone and was thinking of dropping it on the head of his father. While he was descending from the roof with the stone in his hand, he heard the conversation of his father and mother. He heard his father praising him with a voice shaken by emotion. His father's affection for him moved his heart and his eyes welled up with tears. He dropped the stone on the ground at once and there was a loud noise made by the stone on the ground. Trilochan and Bhagawathi ran towards the ladder. Meanwhile, Bharavi came and fell at the feet of his father and sought his forgiveness. He also sought atonement for the sinful thought of patricide he had entertained and in the life of Bharavi, there dawned a transformation, a regeneration and a total reformation.
The attitude of neutrality or apathy did not allow Trilochan's mental equanimity to be upset. Trilochan was calm. There appeared the golden occasion of a reformation in the life of his son, Bharavi.
Whenever improper behaviour is seen in your relatives or the members of your family; when advice and persuasion fail to change them, you should not lose your peace of mind. You must adopt the attitude of neutrality towards them. You must concentrate and contemplate on the pure form of your soul. You must cultivate the habit of contemplating on the pure form of your soul. That contemplation conduces to contentment and brings real felicity and all agitations arising from thinking of others will disappear. You will attain felicity and serenity.
I will explain to you later the other forms of this attitude of neutrality.
This is enough for today.
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