In India we are taught to treat parents, teachers, guests and husbands as God. With reverence and obedience.
Most people are highly disillusioned with their lecturers and professors and have contempt for them to put it nicely. Most lecturers and professors demand rather than command respect and by that very act lose it. Like clerks in govt. offices.
A true teacher who educates and guides one in any walk of life is both a rarity and a divine blessing to a student who finds one.
A husband who loves, protects and provides may truly be revered and obeyed as God.. but one who is dependent, exploitative, uncaring… should he be treated as God too?
A mother who loves her children and lives for them is God personified, but one who seeks to control, dominate, possess her children and is jealous of them… should she be treated as God?
Is it necessary to pretend that All mothers and All husbands are divine?
In India all mothers are put on a pedestal and in USA all of them are blamed for all problems their children face in life.
Not all husbands and not all mothers are divine.
It is not difficult at all for most people to respect a divine, mother, father, teacher, husband or guest.
To respect the villainous or the merely selfish and crooked, you have to be as naive as I was/am or as Divine as Shri Rama or Bhishma were.
To see through people and then to regard them highly, is very difficult for me. With age and loss of innocence, my ability to see through people is increasing.
Every evidence of ‘cheating’ in others makes me wish to puke. It takes me several hours/days to get over it. The way Harry Potter feels about Reeta Skeeter.
Thank God no one said Journalist Devo Bhava or Politician Devo Bhava.
Wednesday July 25, 2007 – 01:24pm (IST)
