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movie and it inspired me to commit a theft. Moreover, I learnt from that movie the method of committing the theft". A certain murderer made this confession in the court, "I came to know from somebody that that man had illicit intimacy with my wife. I became angry; I took a revolver, went to him and fired at him. I killed him".
Recently, I read the story of an event which took place in a foreign country. It seems a certain young man used to read detective novels. In a certain novel, he had read about a dacoit who robbed a bank and plundered a large amount of money. That young man also made a similar plan to rob a bank. He planned to rob the bank in the same manner in which the dacoit robs the bank in the detective novel. When the young man went to the bank with this plan he was caught red-handed.
If you want your family to be noble and cultured, you must - stop seeing movies, seeing the T.V. and looking lustily at other : women. You must stop listening to calumny, gossip and foul. songs. You must stop reading detective fiction, disgusting-social novels and film magazines. You must see that all the members of your family discard these habits. This much of caution or awareness is essential. The husband and the wife in the family must share the same ideology. They should think alike in these matters. If both of them are virtuous, self-disciplined, pure and cultured, they can achieve the objective of making their family a cultured one; otherwise not. When the husband and the wife hold contradictory opinions on such matters, their sons and daughters cannot become cultured, and their lives will not be properly developed, disciplined and directed. If the father and the mother differ in their opinions, their children fall into a state of confusion. Their development will be affected. They will have to walk on two contradictory ways. The result is that they will not abide by the guidance of their father or of their mother. They will live as they like.
It will be beneficial to you if you try to make your family cultured and congenial. All the members of a family would be happy and peaceful if in that family the woman and the children are pure of character, polite and sensible. If all of them are
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