Dignity the best discipline

March 27, 1981

So you see when it comes to giving, give it with your full heart. You just feel that love of giving and you feel so happy, because you feel so big about yourself, like an ocean that’s giving so much of clouds and again it is receiving these rivers into it, and again making it into clouds, a sort of a circle of beautiful conversion into beauty after beauty starts, it’s so beautiful. And that’s what we should try to become, a part of that circle, which is so beautiful and which is so joy giving, to yourself also. And this is what it is, and this hand is for ashraya, means for the protection. You must protect the people who are your subordinates, who are dependent on you, your children. Like, it’s a very common thing to insult your children from their childhood. Why did you spoil that carpet? Why did you do that? You should not have said this, why did you? This is a very wrong thing of discipline. Best discipline is to put dignity into children.

You see, a good home in India we’ll say, is known by the way children are addressed in the family. Like, in a good family we address the children like sir. Little bit like that, ap, means sir. We never address the children with indignity, and we put them on a dignified level. And it’s a very nice thing.