Have responsibility, not attachment
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Friday April 20, 2012
Your duty to your parents is to give them emotional and moral support when they need it. I want to make it very clear that you are not bound by your parents to live your life the way they want. It is not your duty or responsibility. Many times, you mistake your attachment and weakness as a duty and responsibility. No! If you are completely bound by your parent’s way of living and it becomes a duty, there is then no possibility for growing. Then nobody is going to have the courage to break through and upgrade themselves. That is not your duty, not your responsibility. Responsibility to your parents is giving them moral support. Very beautifully one of my brahmacharinis said, ‘The best thing I can do for them is to bring them to you. After this, it is between you and them!’ I tell you, your highest responsibility to your parents is helping them to become enlightened.
Your responsibility to your teachers is keeping the knowledge they gave you alive and making it grow and flourish. Your responsibility to your priests is using the knowledge they gave you to achieve the ultimate. Your responsibility to the Master is becoming enlightened. Nothing else. Your highest responsibility is giving your emotional and moral support to your parents, growing the knowledge given to you by your teachers, using the knowledge given by your priests to achieve the highest consciousness, and finally achieving the highest consciousness
with help of the Master. Nothing more, nothing less, nothing else! Be very clear, you are not bound by anything else.