Passage 13

In English

In view of this belief, started teaching her children from an early age their essential spiritual nature and their inherent divinity. Today, the mothers are responsible for the good or bad behaviour of their children. It is a matter for shame for any mother to say "My son will not heed my words." If the mother had brought up the son on right lines from the beginning, he would not behave like this. The snake-gourd has to be made to grow straight by tying a stone to it from its tender stage. Likewise, the stone of discipline and devotion should be attached to a boy from his infancy. Mothers experience the disobedience of their children because of their failure to inculcate discipline in the early years.