Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Let us repay our debts

We received our body from parents

My topic today is going to be "Let us repay our debts." Let us closely study whether or not you have debts.
Before your birth, you inhabited your mother's womb for at least nine months. I have witnessed in Mother how long she struggles when she's conceived with a child. For three to four months, you feel like vomiting whatever you eat. You are physically feeble, so you may need more help and more love from your husband.
The baby in the mother's womb is making the mother suffer, and through the mother, he's mobilizing even the father.
Even though you are experienced, just before childbirth a mother is scared, because labor is frightening. At the moment of childbirth, the mother can die. When she's in labor, you just cannot imagine how agonized she is. She has no one to rely on, no one whom she can really trust or lean on. You did that. Every one of you, when you were in your mother's womb, caused that.
So, you are greatly indebted to your mother, to your parents. You are the one who caused the pain and pangs.
But right after the childbirth your mother felt overjoyed to see you. Immediately, she comes to love you. If it were in other matters, you would hate and feel like kicking the person who caused you such trouble and pain.
If you were given every three years the same pain as your mother experienced when she gave birth to you, practically everyone would be faithful to his mother.
Have you ever stopped to think that you caused such a pain to your mother? (No.) You feel free to say anything against her, act any way against her, and you think that you are born for the sake of yourself.
In your everyday life, suppose you are hungry and almost starve to death, so you visit a friend of yours and he feeds you; you are immensely thankful to him. When you are in a difficult situation, if you are helped by one of your relatives or friends, you are grateful. But have you ever thought of the pain you have caused your mother and have you been grateful to her? Compared to the gratitude you feel towards your friends, what you should be feeling towards your parents must be many, many times more.
Before being born into the world, there was the period of time when your eyes had to be formed, your ears, your nose, your mouth. Every cell of yours was being formed in your mother's womb.
So every morning when you look at yourselves in the mirror, why don't you remind yourselves how your eyes were formed, your nose came into being, your mouth and ears came into being. When you closely examine your face, you will find that your eyes resemble your mother's, your ears resemble your father's, your nose resembles your father's again, and maybe your mouth resembles your mother's mouth. They are a copy of either your father or mother.
How can you misuse them? To you, your faces are precious; if that is true, why don't you talk highly of your mother and father? Why don't you feel that they are precious to you" Your whole body, every cell of yours, belongs to them and resembles your parents. If you love yourselves why don't you love your parents?

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