What parents inculcate in the child is permanently there because childhood is the most impressionable time of life.
When there is harmony in the home, there will be order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world.
For him who has completed the journey, for him who is sorrowless, for him who from everything is wholly free, for him who has destroyed all ties, the fever of passion exists not… He is like a pool, unsullied by mud; to such a balanced one, life’s wanderings do not arise. Calm is his mind, calm is his speech, calm is his action, who, rightly knowing, is wholly freed, perfectly peaceful and equipoised.
Just as the soft rains fill the streams, pour into the rivers and join together in the oceans, so may the power of every moment of your goodness flow forth to awaken and heal all beings.
In thinking, “This is I” and “That is mine”, he binds himself with his self, as does a bird with a snare.
