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child. In reality, no one belongs to you. Your child is yours only
through a physical relation with your body. Will any one of the
children come with you when you are being cremated? Those
who become attached to their children and think that their
children belong to them, will suffer a lot. Your feeling of ‘mine’
will be of no help to you. Children are yours from the worldly,
relative perspective. If the child is hurt, you should give him
medical attention and treatment, but do you have to cry in the
process?
Is a woman likely to lactate for her stepchild? No, so
keep the same relationship with your own children. This current
time cycle is that of the Kaliyug (age of quarrel and
destruction). All relationships are relative. Keep relative as
relative. Do not consider them as real. If your relationship with
your son were real, then you could tell him to leave your home
until he improves. But, these relationships are all relative and
therefore you must adjust everywhere. You have not come here
in this world to improve anyone. You are here to free yourself
from the bondage of karma. Instead of trying to improve others,
just maintain a positive, inner intent. Only a Gnani Purush,
who is faultless, can improve others, so take your children to
him. Why do they become spoilt? They become spoilt because
of your meddling. Interference and meddling is the cause that
ruins everything in the world. Even this dog will bite you if you
irritate it. What happens when you irritate human beings? They
too will bite. So do not irritate them.
There is infinite scriptural knowledge in every word I
speak. If a person understands these words and acts accordingly,
he will achieve salvation. This science is such that you will have
to take only one more birth before achieving liberation! You will
forego hundreds of thousands of rebirths. With this science, you
will get rid of all your attachment and abhorrence and become
vitarag (void of attachment). When you achieve a state of