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The other day I was watching this movie ‘Rustam’. A very
common scene in any movie. Mr. Rustam realized that his wife was not honest to
him, and he started drinking wine. This is a very common shot in any movie.
Whenever someone is in depression due to any failures, be it girlfriend
leaving, failing in exams, not getting a job or losing a job or anything else,
all our “Hero” resort to drinks to get the ‘relief’. It’s not only depression,
but celebration as well. If one wants to celebrate engagement, a girl saying
yes to you, getting a business deal, passing exams, birthday or anything else, all celebrations lead to drinking.
As if there is no other way to handle stress or celebrate!!
I was just wondering what message my 13 year old son would
take back home? If he faces stress in life, would he look for a bottle of
whisky? May be, may be not! It is up to me to show him other ways. Like any
other responsible parent, I must show him alternatives to celebrate or to
handle stressful situations. If I don’t do that, I am sure the movie and
entertain media would continuously bombard him with only one choice. I am sure
the entertainment media would never show a person in stressful situations doing
meditation, or going to a temple or going to nature. They would not do so
because the media gets a lot of money from wine and tobacco industries for
obvious reasons. The real spiritual ‘industry’ would not fund them!
It is simple. If you see advertisement of only Colgate on TV
and everywhere else, you will not know of other choices unless you go to shop.
But the problem here is that you will not go to a general shop, but to Colgate
exclusive shop where nobody will tell you to buy something else. There might be
other shops existing around you, but you don’t know them because you have seen
only Colgate and you are convinced that it is the best.
If you got the message, it is up to you to start protecting
your next generation. Teach them meditation which is the best remedy for stress
and other emotions arising out of stress. Let’s accept that in changing world
of food, lifestyle, peer pressure, competition etc., there would be more
stress, more adverse situations in the lives of our children. If they learn to
meditate since their childhood, they would have developed a taste of the same.
Not only that, they would have become more stable and strong already to not
even react on adversaries of life.
Just protect our current and next generations through right spirituality!!
