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Leading A Spiritual Life

in life and emerge as super achievers. To this end,
parents do their utmost to ensure that their child is
admitted to some school of a very high standing. For
this they are willing to pay any price.
But, it is important to judge the matter in terms of
result. If we apply this criterion, it is difficult to find
a child educated in a top school who became a great
achiever, in terms of receiving the Nobel Prize or making
any important scientific discovery.

Judging by the result, training for a child is actually
of greater importance than schooling. What is training?
Training here does not mean equipping children to
enter a profession. It means rather parents becoming
home trainers for their children. Parents should attach
the greatest importance to imparting wisdom to their
children rather than pampering them. They should
plan wisely for their children’s education, laying great
emphasis on how essential hard work is. They should
foster the spirit of positive thinking in children, so that
they may lead their lives along healthy lines. Parents
must strive to develop in the child high qualities of
character such as the willingness to adjust, tolerance,
peace-lovingness, simple living, high thinking, and so
on. They must teach their children values that will
prove to be beneficial for them in every situation, such
as the art of introspection and the habit – in moments
of adversity – of blaming oneself rather than others for
unfortunate occurrences.
We learn that training is more important than
schooling when we apply our reason and pay heed to
the experiences of human history. For instance, men

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