What should parents encourage their wards to achieve? Bhagawan lovingly explains so that we may together build a bright future.

In the days of yore, the people of Bharath earned name and fame by leading virtuous and sacred lives and were an example to the world. The children of today take after their parents. The tree is based on the seed and the seed determines the nature of the tree. For the evil ways and bad behaviour of children today, the parents alone are to be blamed. Few parents choose to tell their children to speak the truth, to act righteously and earn a good name. Because of such bad parents, the nation is forfeiting its good name. It is better that such children are not born at all. They are a disgrace to their parents and to their country. Their education and their jobs may help to bring to them power, position and wealth, but do not serve to promote in them such virtues as compassion, kindness and sacrifice. All their acquisitions have no permanence. Whatever strength one may possess, without the strength of the Divine, one is a weakling.