You will be gone soon but the children will be here.
And nobody can manage anybody else's life.
Though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts; for they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit even in your dreams.
God will take care. It is none of our business to be too concerned.
Whatsoever we can do, we do, but one should not hanker about things going the way one wants. That is very egoistic
You have given birth to a child, but once
he is out of the womb, he is free of you.
First he depended for his breath on you when he was in the womb. Then he will take his
own breath.
You don't say
'What are you doing?
Are you trying to be
free of me? Trying to
be independent?'
Feel happy that your child is breathing.
First he will take milk from you, then one day he will start eating on his own.
First he will go on clinging to your apron and then one day he will leave it.
You will be happy because the child is growing, becoming mature.
Bless them, and whatsoever happens they have to find their own life and their own meaning to life.
Now you are free.
Just try to find your meaning, your life, your goals, and devote the few days that are left to the search of the ultimate.
Don't be concerned with ordinary things.
I have never seen a single parent who is
happy about their children.
Nobody is ever happy. Even the father of Buddha. was not happy.
He was very annoyed because his son turned out to be a beggar. He became a sannyasin
and the father was hoping he would become an emperor. He crushed all his
father's hopes.
One thing is certain-- that the child is not here to fulfill your expectations.
The child is here with his own destiny, and
he will unfold his own destiny.
You are trying somehow to direct his destiny
and that is going to be frustrated.
Accept it and bless them.
They have to find their own ways.
Who are we to interfere?
And how can we?
Pray for them but leave them on their own.
You try to grow yourself
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