Parents: Fame or Shame

                                                     PARENTS:  FAME OR SHAME

Dear Readers',

Personally with no doubt of body, mind and soul, parents are fame for every child obviously.

Parents can never be a shame for their child rather they all-time make their best efforts to have their child grab all the opportunities of life, live happily and earn the all time high.

Mother keeps her baby in stomach for nine months by suffering from all the pain and after birth takes care of her child by not sleeping until her baby sleeps,

By not eating until her baby eats first and doing everything to keep her child good.

Both mother and father sacrifice their whole life to have their child live a luxury life with the best sources available with them.

                                                   

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Still parents are shame for their children after their child starts earning or as they grow old.

All the sacrifices of parents are forgot by their children and they don’t want to live with their parent anymore.

Remembering a true story of one of the parents, when their son went to America for job and was not coming back, one day his mother told him to come to the funeral of his father and the son said “ please tell me anything to done from here, as can’t come back to India”.

I still don’t understand why this happens and how parents are a liability for their children when they grow old.

If we see traditionally, India was called the “Golden bird” and children were very faithful with their parents, but now a days due to hankering after the western culture, our culture is getting into the dark and cases like these are more frequent.

But I want to highlight one thing to all my readers, that if parents are shame for any child, then even if he repents on his actions afterwards, he will not be forgiven by Lord Krishna.

REAL STORY

Once Lord Krishna (Lord Vithal or Panduranga Vittala, is an incarnation of Lord Vishnu and is worshipped in the world famous Pandarpur Rukmini Vithal Temple at Pandarpur in Maharashtra) was so moved by the sincere devotion of Pundalik towards his parents. He decided to visit Pundalik’s home.

When Lord Krishna visited Pundalik’s home he was serving food to his old parents.

Pundalik saw the Lord at his door but his devotion to his parents was so intense that he wanted to finish his duties first and then attend to his guest. Pundalik had reached such a stage that it didn’t matter to him whether the guest was a mere mortal or God. All that mattered was service to his parents.

Pundalik gave Lord Krishna a brick to stand on and asked Him to wait until his duty was completed. Lord Krishna was moved by the devotion of Pundalik to his parents and waited for him patiently.

Later when Pundalik came out he asked the Lord forgiveness for making Him wait. Lord Krishna blessed him and asked him to ask a boon. 

Pundalik said what more can I ask when the Lord himself waits for me.

When Lord Krishna insisted that he ask a boon, Pundalik asked that the Lord should remain on earth and bless and take care of His devotees.

Lord Krishna agreed to stay there and is known as Vithoba or the Lord who stands on a brick. This form of the Lord Vithoba is Swayambhu which means that His idol has not been carved or etched but it came into existence on its own.

In Nutshell, Narada Muni has said that this material world is full of Dukhalaya (Miseries) and no-one can remain happy here and he who thinks is happy here is a fool. Everyone one has to leave this material body one day and the choice is his/ her that next body will be spiritual/ material, so to get freed from this material bondage, one should chant the holy name of Lord Krishna for getting Back to Godhead in the original form of spiritual body, which is our original source.