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THE WAY OF LIFE
UNDERSTAND THE POINT CORRECTLY
A certain young man secured the M.S. degree from a foreign country and returned to India. His mother was staying in her native place. He went straight to that place. He stopped his car in the corner of a street. He alighted from his car and was walking up the street. He saw his mother standing on the road. He ran forward and fell at her feet on the road itself. Both the mother and the son were overwhelmed with joyful emotions. This sight was seen by a few young men who happened to be there and who were students in a college. They began to laugh on seeing the sight; and they began to criticize the young man, "Where is any need for prostrating at the feet of his mother on the road? Could he not touch his mother's feet and prostrate to them in the house? But brother even this is a kind of show an ostentation. He wants to impress upon the world that even though he has returned from abroad, he has devotion for his mother". Thus, they were saying several things in derision. Let such people keep speaking derisively. What else can they do when they are such people as abuse their mothers and quarrel with their fathers? Those people who suspect even the noble actions of cultured people can never admire virtuous actions.
Those who are plain; and who possess an eye for virtues can admire and appreciate the noble actions of cultured people. Let us understand the meaning of nobility from the story of Shripal, a man of absolute nobility; and let us admire and adore the noble and cultured actions of people.
This is enough for to-day.
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