One line advice is do not succumb to social pressures. It is not only about the harm these things do to the child but also to oneself. It is necessary to develop one’s individuality fully by making one’s choices.
Initially the parents and friends may try to pull but later they will respect you for the integrity displayed and standing by your choices.
Affectionately,
Alok da.
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There are quite a few other similarities. Sri Krishna was brought up in a foster home away from his parents and so was Sri Aurobindo. Sri Krishna came back and freed his people from the tyranny of Kansa and so did Sri Aurobindo return and gave himself to the work of freeing his motherland from the tyranny of the British. In the ….
Nature has created this world in a many-tiered way. The animal plan is its beginning, the animal humanity and the higher humanity are the middle, but the godlike humanity and the divinised superhumanity is its culmination…
The first thing to understand is that the Divine who chose to plunge into the ignorance with the full knowledge of the aftermath of suffering and the eventual multiplication of delight, the manifold delight of multiplicity, did it with the full consent of our central being, that aspect of the soul that remains unfallen and hence always in the bliss of the eternal company of the Divine. The soul in us took it as a great adventure in which it plunged along …
