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Generation Gap
There was a little boy who was very difficult and he refused
to swallow some cough syrup that his mother was giving him. He
resisted his mother as she held out the spoon, so she pinched his
nostrils and shoved the syrup into his mouth so that it gurgled
down his throat. The next time she ventured do this he spit the
medicine in her face! This is the quality of a child; nine months in
the mother’s womb without paying rent and this is how she is
repaid!
(P.221)
A man complained to me that while two of his three sons
were brilliant and hardworking, one of them was a failure. He
admitted that he had no complaints about two of his sons but the
third one would come home drunk every night and was a constant
source of misery for him. If the son saw that his father was still
awake, he would yell abuse at him, so the father would spy on his
son from behind a window. As soon as the son came home he
would collapse on his bed and doze off to sleep, while his father
would lay awake half the night worrying about him. I told the
father that the fault was his own because he was the one was
suffering. I went on to tell the father that he was responsible for
his son’s drinking problem and that in his past life he pushed this
addiction onto his son and then abandoned him. So now in this
life he was paying for this debt that he created in his past life.
Now he will have to endure it. The fault is of the sufferer! While
the son doses off to sleep soundly; the father lies awake all night
tormented by worries.
(P. 222)
A daughter-in-law thinking that her father-in-law is in
another room and cannot hear her, tells her friend, ‘My father-in-
law is not very intelligent’. Now he just happens to overhear her
comment and it becomes a source of ailment for him. How should
he tackle this situation? He should just consider that had he been
elsewhere in the house, he would not have heard her and her