Life Without Conflict 47
The power to change anyone is nonexistent in this day and age, and therefore, you should not expect any changes to occur. You can improve others only if there is unity between your mind, body and speech. People will improve only if whatever is in the mind is expressed precisely through the speech and conduct. Today, this is not so. Bring normality, act according to what the situation calls for when you deal with everyone at home.
What Is There To Become So Captivated About?
Many grandfathers are thrilled when their grandchildren call them,‘ Grandpa’. If they do not call them‘ grandpa’, are they going to call them‘ uncle’? They may call them‘ Grandpa,’ but they understand from within, that‘ Grandpa’ is going to die some time soon. Grandpas are mangos that have gone bad and need to be discarded, and yet the grandfather finds it thrilling to be a grandpa. Alas! This is what the world is like. When a child speaks in a baby talk,“ Daddy, come daddy, Mommy is calling you for tea,” the father becomes titillated from within, just like a happy bull! He feels he is the only father in the world. Who does he thinks he is? Let go of this madness! Even dogs, cats and the donkeys are fathers; tell me who is not a father! All conflicts in the world are because of this only.
A man is truly worthy of being glorified if after discovering the reality of life, he decides he does not want to become a father, otherwise many men become daddies, do they not? If the boss reprimands him at work, when he comes home and his child calls out to him,‘ Daddy, daddy,’ he forgets everything. This is similar to the effect of wine; it intoxicates people and makes them forget everything.
If a couple, who had been childless for a long time, suddenly had a son, the father would be overjoyed. However, if the son were to then die, he would cry just as much as he had