Our Parents- Ram Chugani

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OUR PARENTS

 

An eighty-year-old man was sitting on the sofa in his

house along with his forty-five-year-old highly educated son.

Suddenly a crow perched on their window.

 

The father asked his son, " What is this? "

The son replied, " It is a crow " .

After a few minutes, the father asked his son a second time, " What

is this? "

The son said, " Father, I have just now told you, it's a crow. "

After a little while, the old father again asked his son the third

time, " What is this? "

This time, a hint of irritation was heard in the son's tone when

he said to his father with a rebuff, " It's a crow, father, a crow! "

A little afterwards, the father again asked his son for the fourth

time, " What is this? "

This time the son shouted at his father, " Why do you keep asking

me the same question again and again, although I have told you so

many times IT'S A CROW! Why can't you understand this? "

A little later the father went to his room and came back with an

old tattered diary, which he had maintained since his son was born.

On opening it, he asked his son to read that page. The son read the

following words written in the diary:

" Today my little son aged three was sitting with me on the sofa

when a crow perched on the window. He asked me twenty-three times

what it was, and I replied to him all twenty-three times that it was

a crow. I hugged him lovingly each time he asked me the same

question over and over twenty-three times! I did not at all feel

irritated. Rather, I felt affection for my innocent child. "

While the little child asked him twenty-three times, " What

is this, " his father felt no impatience in replying to the same

question again and again, but this day, when the father asked his

son the same question only four times, the son became irritated and

ill-tempered.

So, if your parents attain old age, do not repulse them or look at

them as a burden, but speak to them graciously. Be cool, obedient,

humble and kind to them, as they were to you when you were a child.

Be considerate to your parents.

From today onward, say this aloud: " I want to see my parents happy

forever. They have cared for me ever since I was a baby. They have

showered their selfless love on me. They sacrificed, crossing

mountains and valleys, bearing storms and strife to make me a person

presentable in society. "

 

Say a prayer to God: " I will serve my old parents in the best way.

I will always speak kindly and courteously to my dear parents, no

matter how they behave. "

 

Illustrations: Vamsi Aditya, SSSIHL

- Heart2Heart Team

 

(Sharing With Sai Love)

 

Ram Chugani

Kobe, Japan

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