Passage 6

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In plain words

You could not. You are here. So parents have no anger. Our parents have nothing but Prema for us, always! Parents are always the very embodiments of Prema! So it is most necessary to love our parents and look after them. ‘Your own anger is your enemy. Your own calm is your protection.’ So we must always be happy. We must go on looking after them. We must bow to their command. Vināyaka is the very one who bowed to it in that way. That is why they said that He has no leader at all.

When a son's conduct is not right, his parents may grow angry. Taking that time and occasion into account, parents scold to set their son right, but that anger is not something that lasts all their life. Children ask their mother for money to go to the cinema. If by chance she does not give the money, they mistakenly think she is angry with them. A mother's Prema has no equal. If need be, she will give even her life to protect her children. How wrong it is to think that such a mother is angry! There are no parents who are angry with their children, but there are sons who nurse a petty anger against their parents and go to court. Yet even in them the anger is only for a while! Afterwards, if their parents are hurt, they too are hurt.

Even when he has gone to court, if you ask the son, “What is your mother's name?”, he gives the name of his own mother standing before him. “She is Easwaramma.” “Who is Easwaramma?” “My mother.” You see! Even when he has gone to court, there too he says, “My mother.” If you ask that mother, “Who is your son?”, she too gives her son's name. The bond between these two is nothing other than Prema alone. All kinds of differences arise only in the son, never in the parents. So it is most necessary for sons to change their ways, recognise their parents' Prema, and live by it.

Vināyaka is the embodiment of Prema, one who has Prema in all its fullness. To all who pray to Him He gives nothing but Prema. That is why, when Vyāsa was writing the Mahābhārata, he asked Vināyaka to be his leader and his scribe. That is why not a single mistake crept into the Mahābhārata.