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The Science of Karma
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So take care of all your responsibilities towards your wife
and children and realize that it is all your effect karma. But
make sure that in this effect, you hold no opinions that will lead
you to charge karma for the next life. I have given you these five
Agnas for that very reason. Guard yourself against being of the
opinion that whatever you are experiencing or doing, is correct.
No such opinion should be there. That is all that is required.
The rest will happen naturally.
Guide Children In This Manner
Parents become indignant if their child does something
wrong. They go around telling others that their child is a misfit
or that he is a thief. Why must they do this? Why not simply
forget? Whatever is done is done. Instead, why not change the
child’s internal bhaav? Parents today are not worthy of their
parenthood; they are not certified to be parents and so they do
not know how to go about changing their children’s bhaav. If
a child develops a habit of stealing, the parents will keep
tormenting and punishing him. Needless to say, this excessive
reaction, on the part of the parents, does not help. So what
does the child do? He decides to ignore them and rebel even
more by stealing more.
You have to change their bhaav. Talk to them
affectionately. Hold them, hug them and make them understand
with gentle words and make them see the recklessness of their
actions. Ask them how they would feel if someone stole from
them. Would it not hurt them if someone stole their money?
Explain to them that in the same way they hurt the person they
steal from. Eventually the children will heed you and come to
realize that they have done wrong. Children become more
stubborn and agitated if they are punished over and over again.
All that is required is a change in the manner you deal with your
children. The fact is that no one has understood cause karma,
which is why everybody suffers.