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your spiritual activities also. They should not also entertain very high expectations and hopes.
If parents are living a retired life and if they are old and if they keep quarrelling with their sons, daughtersin-law and their grand-children expecting too many conveniences and service from them, they cause sorrows to themselves and to the others in their family. Agitations and tensions will arise in the family.
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If a woman expects too much from her husband; and if she keeps quarrelling with her husband for the fulfilment of all her expectations and desires, she will lose her own happiness. It is wrong on her part to think that her husband should fulfil all her expectations, hopes and desires.
If children expect that their parents should fulfil all their desires and aspirations, they will only cause agitation to themselves. Parents are not bound to satisfy all the desires of their sons and daughters in respect of dress and decorations. Of course, parents have to provide to their children those things that are essential for existence. For instance, children should get adequate and proper food, dress, education and medical treatment.
ENGAGE YOUR DEPENDANTS IN SPIRITUAL ACTIVITIES ALSO
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Besides satisfying these basic and fundamental necessities, you should also engage your dependants to carry out some spiritual activities. You must create in them a taste for spiritual austerities. You must engage each member of your family in those spiritual activities which are proper to him or her. Whenever there is an opportunity, you must give them proper inspiration to carry out those activities. The head of the family must pay attention to this vital aspect of family life. He must also know which spiritual austerities are to be carried out. The head of the family must bestow special attention on his sons and daughters when they have reached the phase of youth. He
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