| Subject: On Parenting |
| The cover story n parenting by Purohit is comprehensive and interesting. The fact that parenting begins at the moment of conception, and learning happens in the mother‘s womb itself is beautifully illustrated by the story of Abhimanyu, son of Arjuna and Subhadra. Lord Krishna, Subhadra‘s brother was explaining the intricacies of warfare to her when she was pregnant, and Abhimanyu, inside his mother‘s womb, listened intently and assimilated it throughly. Krishna finished explaining how to break the ‘Chakravyuh‘ formation and get inside, and when he launched into an explanation of how to get OUT of it, Subhadra fell asleep. Abhimanyu thus lost out on those details. Because of his mother‘s ‘tamas‘, Abhimanyu lost his life in the Mahabharata war- he could get in but could not get out of the Chakravyuh! A mother especially play a crucial role in parenting at all stages of her child‘s life. |
| Posted by: Purnima Yogi on 4 Feb. 2011 |
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