Originally posted by: LOLAnisha
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Parent-child duties in context of these mytho stories, and how their lessons can be applied today. Obviously there's the Ram-Dashratha katha, but at the same time we have Ravan-Meghnaad as well as Prahlad-Hiranyakashyapu. What do you do when the parent's going the wrong way and imparting wrong values??
A parent and child have a unqiue relationship. A parent gives birth, cares for, and tends to every need of the child, with selfless and pure love and expects nothing in return. Just like God. Still, it is the child's duty to serve his or her parents, listen to them, and give them respect, love, and care.
But what happens when your parents are going in the wrong directions themselves? Like Ravan? Well, I think a child thinks whatever a parent does is what he or she should do. The parent is the child's role model and constant example. When that constant example, always before the child's eyes is bad, the child needs divine and positive intervention, preferably before he is negatively affected, as in Prahlad's case. Prahlad learned devotion from sage Narad as a baby in his mother womb to a tender age in childhood, and after experiencing his divine touch, coming to terms with his father's cruelty and evil nature wasn't difficult for him. He wasn't swayed. Meghnad didn't get any intervention and blindly followed his father's footsteps--that took him straight to his doom.
Also, if you know your parent is wrong, not like they won't let you go to the mall without doing your homework 😆, but like if they smoke (God forbid! 😕), don't blindly imitate them and smoke when you reach their age. Shield yourself from something you know is obviously wrong and try to help free them of their vice(s). What if Meghnad had tried to help Ravan? Would he have listened to his dear son? Maybe not, as it was planned a certain way in the Lord's leela, but you get the point 😆
Edited by LOLAnisha - 13 years ago
its just I wanna tel U if U don't really mind....I think dat one pic is not of Lakshmi mata...it is of Vedmata Gayatri😊
Cool! Which one? 
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