Radio Ruhaniyat: September 01, 2018

Hello everyone and thanks for joining us for this episode on Radio Ruhaniyat.

Giving is receiving! When we live for others, we will find others starting to live for us. When we give out our best, we will start receiving the best!
I’d like to share with you, an excerpt from a speech by India’s Defense Minister, Manohar Parrikar at an event hosted by the Federation of Gujarat Industries in Vadodara, India on September 11, 2016. Transcription by Eisha Sarkar)

"I am from the village of Parra in Goa; hence we are called Parrikars. My village is famous for its watermelons. When I was a child, the farmers would organize a watermelon-eating contest at the end of the harvest season in May.

All the kids would be invited to eat as many watermelons as they wanted. Years later, I went to IIT Mumbai to study engineering. I went back to my village after 6.5 years.

I went to the market looking for watermelons. They were all gone. The ones that were there were so small.

I went to see the farmer who hosted the watermelon-eating contest. His son had taken over. He would host the contest but there was a difference.

When the older farmer gave us watermelons to eat he would ask us to spit out the seeds into a bowl. We were told not to bite into the seeds.

He was collecting the seeds for his next crop. We were unpaid child laborer, actually. He kept his best watermelons for the contest and he got the best seeds, which would yield even bigger watermelons the next year.

His son, when he took over, realized that the larger watermelons would fetch more money in the market so he sold the larger ones and kept the smaller ones for the contest.

The next year, the watermelons were smaller, the year later even smaller. In watermelons, the generation is one year.

In seven years, Parra's best watermelons were finished. In humans, generations change after 25 years. It will take us 200 years to figure what we were doing wrong while educating our children."

Unless we employ our best to train the next generation, this is what can happen to us. We must attract the best into the teaching profession".

Each one of us is responsible to offer our best to next generation!

If we don't pass on right things to next generation, they will be misguided.

-Shared from the Nirankari International Forum.

The youth today, is the pillar of tomorrow. Every teaching given to them today proves to be a stepping-stone towards a better tomorrow. A time comes when the adults start depending on the younger generation to take care of them. If we give them the best, we will eventually get back the best. It is only when we live our own lives in such a way, that the youth can truly get inspired to live right themselves.
If we shown them the path of spirituality, we can expect them to live their lives with moral values.

Those who live life with the awareness that God is watching them all the time, will always be conscious not to do anything wrong.
As we sow, so shall we reap.

-Until next time, this is Preet Sahi reminding you to Stay Spiritual!

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