Thursday, March 20, 2008

Parenting Or Teachers as Surrogate Parents; And Schools as Mini-Societies


I continue writing from the ideas I have put down in the earlier postings. Please note let my last sentence, "you are Divine." Parents and teachers, society leaders, all those in power. please remember, that you were born in the image of God, and you are Divine. In our divinity, we should remember our responsbility to the Universe. We should remember that our thought patterns are going to create the Universe, therefore, what sort of Universe do we want?

Very often, al the leaders today come from a sense of fear and inadequacy. Very often, we parents forget that to a small child, we may be in the shape of a large god, that to a small child in a classroom, the teacher too, may be in the shape of a god and the child is more than willing to believe what the teacher and the parents' say.

The public is more than willing to listen what the leaders say, and follow in ttheir set of values and needs, for goodness in the country, environment, so on. In the home and in school and society, we are the ones (as parents, teachers etc.) who have no faith in our values, who have no faith in our pure desires, and forget we are Divine.

We teach our children in school and at home to live without values, to live without direction, because we have no faith in our capabilities to lead, direct, be examples and to contribute our purity to the Universe. Please note the word Purity or Divinity. To put all the qualities to make a better world, we sacrifice everything on the alter of greed, ambition, finishing the syllabus, worrying about the children's school marks, making laws to tie up the common man, to pay taxes, to take punishments, instead of understanding that parents, teachers, leaders all have the power to make a better world, if they do so believe in a better world. But we give it all up for more money, for greed.

Let me give you Example One, which is teachers won't teach in the classroom, but will take on a lot of private tuitions, start their own coaching classes and in the classroom do indifferent and quick work, in the name of completing the syllabus.

Parents at home are too busy having a good time because they work hard and relax for fun, earning riches to satisfy the greed of their children, to compete with their neighbors and to fulfill their own unfulfilled ambitions. Many parents who have not achieved academically push and push their children to be toppers, not remembering the happiness of the child. Society leaders and state leaders again forget their Divine power, and sacrifice it in mundane projects, giving the public enough loopholes to lie and cheat and evade the law. The Divinity that has been given to them is lost and reduced to something that is mundane and ordinary.

I think the biggest loss is to the parents today, and I say this especially of parents in India, where the lure of the west and the greed for foreign earnings has pushed them to send their children abroad for higher studies. The Western cities and the Western society are so alien to a lot of the Indian Boys and Girls who go from small towns, protected homes and societies, to live in this vast, cold, alien, uncaring environment. The child is an environment of loneliness, and the old parent who has lost the caring of a son or daughter is also in the lost environment of loneliness.
Where I live, I see many homes which are huge villas, but in them, lives an old man, a mangy dog and a dim light. In the next villa, lives an old woman, a mangy dog and a dim light, and so on.
The men and women in these areas, sit at home, guarding their property, and hoping for a day when their children will use this inheritance.
But the children are already using this inheritance of lack of values.
One day, the villas will be pulled down and from the naked soil maybe the phoneix shall rise!
And, from the valueless mind, too, there will be a burn out of negative values, because nature pushes you onto the right path. And with this natural burnout, the phoenix shall rise.

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