Ashwin Shuklapaksha Ashtami, Kaliyug Varsha 5116
O Parents ! perform sadhana (Spiritual Practice) yourself and encourage your children to do sadhana to control the very menace of love jihad !
Realise that you cannot be with your children throughout the day. It is not possible to keep them away from the influences of the outside world. Children are away from their parents as parents are busy with their jobs and children with their education. This proves to be a hurdle to parents who want to inculcate values (Sanskars) in their children. Similarly, children are pampered in their childhood with toys, television set, mobiles etc. In pursuit to compete with today’s world, children are encouraged to follow westernised educational system. This influencesthe child in such a way that unknowingly they grow up into a mind set that materialistic happiness is above all.
Parents are oblivious of this and also do not realize as to how they are responsible for their child’s state and thus they incur sin.
1. Those children who become victims of Love Jihad because of the so-called modernized educational system, college environment and neglect of their parents culminate into a calamity in their parents’ life. Children pursue higher education to become professionals like doctors, engineers, advocates but the environment and present educational system have convinced today’s generation that materialistic success is a priority in life. Since parents have little time for their children, they are not aware what their child is doing. Most parents feel that once their children in general and more importantly, daughter in particular completes their education and become independent, their responsibility ends with getting the daughter married off, long before they realise that she has been entrapped in a love affair with a fanatic jihadi and has duped them to become a victim of love jihad.
2. When the child is at the mercy of a fanatic only because of negligence of the parents and a sense of sheer irresponsibility of the child towards their duties to parents becomes an eye-opener for the parents, but it is too late then. There is nothing much left to be done other than guilt that parents have that they failed to inculcate values in their daughter. Thus, parents experience a sense of depression.
3. Imparting sanskars related to dharma to the daughter, right from her childhood makes the child dharmacharani (one who abides by dharm) which will in turn, helps to face difficult situations easily with the wisdom due to the sanskars.
Parents, impart sanskars regarding dharma on them right from childhood itself. Awaken pride in them that they are born as Hindus and encourage them to do dharmacharan. This will help develop wisdom in them which will guide them to take right decisions in difficult situations. Parents will experience satisfaction to see their teenage daughter grow to become a dharmabhimani (a devout Hindu citizen), with an ability to take right decisions. If parents, sincerely, carry out their responsibilities of imprinting the importance of sadhana (spiritual practice) on the child’s mind, right from childhood and getting it done from them, there will be no need to worry later. Hence,
there is no alternative to sadhana.
4. Bal-sadhaks (Child-seekers) who are undergoing spiritual training in Sanatan Sanstha’s Ashram and parents who have a sense of content and bliss : Today, there are many bal-sadhaks who are performing sadhana according to Sanatan Sanstha. As they are imparted spiritual sanskars and have a deep spiritual perspective right from the childhood, God Himself takes care of them. These children are taught the science of spirituality for which they neither have to pay any fees or donations. So, parents too perform their own sadhana without any worries and moreover, have a sense of satisfaction that their children are performing sadhana in Sanatan’s Ashrams, thus experiencing bliss.
5. O Parents, impart sanskars related to sadhana to your children to make their future secure and more importantly blissful !
Realising the importance of performing sadhana and following dharmik sanskar, parents must learn this themselves first. So, let us perform dharmacharan and sadhana ourselves and encourage our children to do the same to make their future blissful !
Source : Dainik Sanatan Prabhat
