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Mother is flying a kite.
Her son is watching her carefully.

After some time son says "mom.
Because of the string the kite is not able to go any further higher.

"Hearing this, the mother smiles and breaks the string.
The kite goes higher and then shortly after that,
it comes and falls on the ground.

The child is very dejected and sad.

The mother sits next to him and calmly explains:
"Son, in life we reach a certain level and then we feel that there are certain things that are not letting us grow any further like Home, Family, Friends, Culture etc.

We feel we want to be free from those strings which we believe are stopping us from going higher.

But, remember son."That our home , family, friends and culture are the things that will help us stay stable at the high heights .

If we try to break away from those strings our condition will be similar to the kite."we'll fall down soon..

Moral:
"Never go away from Home Culture, Family, Friends and Relationships as they help keep us stable while we are flying high..."

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Pivotal Role of Parents in Child Grooming. . .

One of the most disturbing stories that we find in the Puranas is the story of Krishna's son Samba, whose mother was the bear-princes, Jambavati.

He dupes his father's junior wives by disguising himself as Krishna and is cursed by Krishna that he will suffer from a skin disease that will enable his wives to distinguish father and son. Samba is cured after he builds temples to the sun. All sun temples in India, from Konark in Odisha to Modhera in Gujarat to Markand in Kashmir, are attributed to this son of Krishna.


Samba also attempts to kidnap Duryodhana's daughter and this leads to war between the Kauravas and the Yadavas. Peace is restored, and the marriage is solemnised, only after Balarama, Krishna's elder brother, and Samba's uncle, in a fit of fury threatens to drag Hastinapur into the sea.

Then there is the story of Samba pretending to be a pregnant woman and duping sages who were visiting Dwaraka. They sages were not amused and cursed Samba that he would give birth to an iron mace that would be responsible for the end of the Yadu clan.

Must not Krishna's son be as noble and divine and wise and loving as Krishna? But that is not so. Samba comes with his own personality and his own destiny over which Krishna has no influence. Or does he?

Can we wonder if Samba was a product of his father's neglect? For was not Krishna spending most of his time with Arjuna and the Pandavas and in the politics of Kuru-kshetra?

There are hardly any stories of Krishna as father. He is friend, philosopher and guide to Arjuna, but the only stories of father and son are of tension, rage and violence.

In conversations about corporations, we often forget about the other half of our lives, the personal one. As more and more people are working 24x7, thanks to Internet, and smart devices, the lines between professional and personal, work and life are getting blurred. In fact, people feel noble when they sacrifice family for work and guilty when they take a holiday to take care of their family.

Family is not seen as achievement. Children are not seen as purpose. They are seen as obligations, duties, by-products of existence, even collateral damage.

We admire leaders who sacrifice family for a 'larger' cause. Like freedom fighters who neglect their wives and children. Like business men and entrepreneurs and consultants who spend most of their time in office.

With the rise of feminism, women are also working. Parenting has been outsourced to maids, teachers, computers, videogames and grandparents.

Women who work in the office have not been compensated by their husbands spending more time at home. Instead women are made to feel guilty for not being good mothers. No one questions men for not being good fathers. Eventually, the office wins. Absent parents rationalise how office is more important than the children: we need the money, the children eventually grow up, surely our needs are also important.

Many great Krishnas in the workplace discover that they have nurtured Samba at home: sons who either follow destructive paths as they seek attention, or sons who make their way away from parents, as they have grown used to not having them around. Who wins?

Corporations were supposed to create wealth for the family. Now families are creating only workers for the corporation.

We have many more Krishnas in this generation and maybe many Sambas in the next.

As written *By Devdutt Pattanaik*

Family Makes or Mars One's Personality. . .

There were two extremely talented batsmen from Mumbai. Their coach was Ramakant Achrekar Sir. Both had a brother named Ajit. While one Ajit guided his younger brother in the right direction to give India Sachin Tendulkar, the other Ajit went down and took his brother and his potentially great career down along with him. This is the story of that unfortunate batsman whom Sachin used to address as “Sir”.

He is Anil Gurav and this is his story:

He used to play for the Mumbai U-19 team.Coach Ramakant Achrekar used to ask youngsters Tendulkar and Kambli to watch Gurav's strokeplay and learn from him.He was called the Viv Richards of Mumbai and everyone thought it would be Gurav who would first go on to play for India.He says regarding his association with Sachin-

"I was his captain at Sassanian (cricket club). He wanted to use my bat but was too shy to ask me directly. The request came through Ramesh Parab (now international scorer at Wankhede stadium), and I told Sachin he could use it provided he made a big score. He said,'I will, sir' and went on to score a century with my SG bat."

However he fell a victim to circumstances. His brother Ajit became a sharpshooter of an underworld gang. Police officers used to pick up Gurav and his mother repeatedly and severely beat them up to find out the whereabouts of his brother Ajit, sometimes detaining them for days.

By the time this ordeal ended, Gurav's cricketing career was also over. He took to heavy drinking. Everything was lost, his career, his dreams, all went up in smoke.

He now lives in a shabby 200 sqft room in a slum in Nalasopara, Mumbai.

Gurav says he last met Sachin in the early 1990s at the Islam Gymkhana at Marine Lines, when he saw Sachin getting into his car surrounded by security guys. Sachin saw him and at once recognized him. He called him and spoke for a couple of minutes and asked him to come to his home.

Now while Sachin Tendulkar has become a legend of the Cricket world who went on to achieve everything, Anil Gurav is a 48-year-old incorrigible drunk striving to keep his family together

Both of them were talented but talent is not the only component. This story illustrates how a good family background and support is invaluable. Not everyone is lucky enough to have it.

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Sunday Musings
Reflect. . . Retrospect. . .

About a year ago, a class-9 student in Tamilnadu, brutally murdered a teacher in the classroom. . . Another incident in the same Tamilnadu, yet another student had stabbed a teacher to death right outside the school. . .
10 days ago in Delhi, an 11th standard student murdered his teacher in the school campus. . .
We all know of a minor being one among the assailants in the 'Nirbhaya' case. . .
3 days ago in Hyderabad, in one of the ChiNa colleges, one student slipped into coma after being beaten up by 2 of his fellowmates. . .
Today's newspapers carry an item on a 16- year old lad from Medchal, resorting to theft in a house and there, physically assaulting a 7-year old girl Lakshmi, then slitting her with a blade and murdering the child. . . Moreover, this boy later participated in the funeral of the child as if he were unaware of anything. . .
2 days ago, a video of students violently hitting one another had gone viral on social media. . .
How has so much of violence crept into children?
What could be the reason behind such violent tendencies?
We know the reasons . .but would like to hear from you too. . .
Why do you think teenagers today are so extremely violent? What could be cause for such behavioural patterns?

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