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Pure Love
Even when a person grows a mango tree he does it with
the expectation that he and his family will enjoy its fruit. He even
expects his grandchildren to benefit from it. He does not nurture
the tree for the sake of nurturing it and not expecting anything
in return. He nurtures i t for its fruit. That is why people raise
children, for their own benefit, so that their children will take
care of them later on. Do you think they raise their children so
the children would abuse them when they are old?
Questioner: They raise them so they will take care of
them.
Dadashri: But nowadays they abuse them. One man
told me, ‘My son does not take care of me’. I replied, ‘Then
what do you expect, you yourself are not deserving of their
care.’
Love Of The Mother
Questioner: It has been written in the scriptures that
parents have equal love for all their children, is it true?
Dadashri: No. Parents are not God that they can have
equal love for each of their children. Only God has equal love
for everyone. Parents are just parents, they are not God. They
will always be partial. I have equal love for everyone.
The love that people talk about is worldly love. People
keep singing about love, but in vain. Even with a woman, how
can one have real love? These are all self-serving relationships.
And the mothers’ love is nothing but the attachment of illusion,
because the baby is born from her body. Even the cows have
attachment for their offspring, but this attachment lasts only for
six months. A mother on the other hand will be attached even
when her child is sixty years old.
Questioner: But isn’t a mother’s love for her child an
unselfish love?