In an attempt to promote Indian culture, Sant Asaram Ji Bapu took another bold step to by calling youth across the India and world to celebrate the Valentine day as Parents worship day on February 14 of this year. Sant Asaram Ji Bapu is popular for his actions that promote the Indian culture, peace and humanity across the world. Sant Asaram Ji Bapu has been promoting this festival of worshipping of parents from many years.
It is in the DNA of the Indians that continuously stimulates them to promote and respect Indian culture and imbibe the qualities of the culture within themselves in order to live a happy life. However, modernization has attracted many youth towards the charm of western culture. Under the influence of the western culture, youths have started copying blindly every aspect of the western culture. In view of these circumstances, when Indian youth seems to have forgotten the importance of the wisdom of their own culture, Sant Asaram Ji Bapu have come forward and has lead millions of his followers to spread divine messages of the Indian culture. One step is to celebrate the Valentine day as a parents worship day.
Due to influence of western culture, a country India, which is known for creating sons like Shravan Kumar, is now heading towards building or creating of Old age homes. Under the influence of western culture, where children rarely care for their old parents, Indians seem to move towards this same stage. Today on the name of love, non-married couples can be seen roaming and sharing gifts on the February 14. In ancient times, people used to meet with each other by saying RAM RAM. How great the idea hidden behind this custom is! They uttered the Lord’s name twice to signify that the same consciousness of the Supreme Lord abides equally in both people greeting each other, and that they offer their salutations to That. Such divine spirit alone represents pure ‘love’. A pure, guileless and selfless sense of affection, free from desire, is called love. This custom helped people to remember the Lord even while meeting each other.
Today, such pious feelings of pure and selfless love have given way to the degenerative passion and lust, which has now come to be accepted as love. 14th February is celebrated as Valentine day. The Valentine day has diluted the pious feelings of pure and selfless love with the limited meaning towards only opposite sex. Revelries like Valentine day that encourage people to live an immoral life are the prime factor behind widespread rejection of traditional sexual codes in many countries. This has caused the degradation of such nations. Even after spending crores of dollars on ‘abstinence only’ campaigns in schools, governments of these nations have failed to solve the consequent problems.
While naming Valentine day as the ‘Youth’s Disaster Day’ and awakening the people to its terrible consequences, Sant Asaram Ji Bapu said “King Claudius of Rome must have been very well aware of the power of celibacy; that is why he had forbidden his military forces from getting married, so that they remained physically and mentally fit enough to win wars. Prohibition of marriage was forcibly imposed on the armed forces, and hence St. Valentine, who himself being a Christian priest could not have been an opposer of celibacy, had got them married secretly. Later, he was found guilty and the king had him hanged to death. Then in the year 496 AD, Pope Galessius began to celebrate ‘Valentine’s Day’ in the memory of that saint.
“Those who celebrate Valentine day in the present manner, do in fact insult the saint himself; for they try start a love-affair before their actual marriage by sending Valentine cards to one another. Had St. Valentine supported this system, he would not have solemnized the marriages in the first place.
Sant Asaram Ji Bapu further said “Do celebrate the day of love (Valentine’s Day), but with self-restraint and for true development. If young boys and girls meet, it will only lead them to ruin. “What a sharp contrast is there between this western celebration of Valentine day, which promotes nothing but passion, lust and promiscuity and our own glorious culture wherein there are holy festivals like ‘Raksha Bandhana’ and ‘Bhai Dooj’ spreading such pious feelings as ‘May there be mutual goodwill among us’. –‘let work for the all round prosperity of one another’ and ‘May my mind be always blessed with auspicious thoughts’.”
Furthermore Sant Asaram Ji Bapu said, “In the future, they will breed irritability, emptiness, depression, frustration, premature old age and death. Indians, therefore, should guard against blindly aping such things. You are sons and daughters of Mother India. Celebrate ‘Love Day,’ wherein children pay respect to parents and parents shower affection on their children. Will you do it my darlings? The west is on a ruinous path. People there are falling prey to sexually transmitted diseases and depression celebrating the likes of Valentine day. Why should you imitate them?”
Calling the parents, Sant Asaram Ji Bapu said, “My dear young people and their parents! You are born on the pious land of India. You are the descendants of farsighted rishis. Shun Valentine day which, in the name of love, debilitates the youth. O parents and their children! Love each other beholding the Lord in the other one and let your hearts be filled with Divine Joy. Not the false joy of sex, but the Joy of God, the Love of God and the Bliss of God.”
Sant Asaram Ji Bapu said “‘May the mother be thy God. May the father be thy God, may the little girl be thy God. May the daughter be thy God. May the son be thy God’. Valentine day, the day of love, should in fact be the day of loving the Lord abiding in every heart. “
Sant Asaram Ji Bapu further said, “May all good come to the people of India and of the world! My brothers and sisters in India! Your conduct should be exemplary. It should help bring peace and happiness to my brothers and sisters of the whole world. Why should you ape the west? Rather they should get blessed following your footsteps.”
All patriotic citizens must make their respective contributions (in whatever form possible) towards the building of a strong future nation by engaging themselves in this act of national welfare.
Sant Asaram Ji Bapu also describe the way to celebrate the parents worship day and consequences of celebrating the parents worship day.
On this day, children should bow to their parents and the parents should shower love on their children who in turn should embrace their parents with all affection. This will foster true love. May children see divinity in their parents, and the parents awaken divinity in their children.
1. Children should worship their parents with flowers, tilak, etc. and parents too should apply tilak to the children and bless them.
2. The worship of the parents will transform ego and lust into love and divinity; and the parents’ blessings will bring supreme good to the children.
3. Read stories such as –Child Ganesha’s circumambulation of the earth, Bhakta Pundalik and Shravan Kumar’s devotion to their parents. Or one may read while the others listen thereto.
4. On this day children should make this pious resolve: “I will respect my parents and elders. It is my duty to obey their commands that are only meant to guide my life on the path to greatness; and I will certainly fulfil it.”
5. The parents should distribute the pious books such as ‘Bal Sanskar’, ‘Divya Prerana Prakash’ (The Secret of Eternal Youth in English), ‘Tu Gulab Hokar Mahak’, ‘Madhur Vyavahar’ (Winsome Behaviour in English) according to their respective means and also resolve to read these books themselves and get them read by their children for a while regularly.
6. Present the stories of the great devotees of their parents, viz. Sri Ganesha, Pundalik, Shravan Kumar, etc. in the drama form.
7. Play the songs – (1) ‘Matri -Pitri-Guru-Prabhu charnon me…’ (From the cassette – Bhajan Deepanjali) (2) ‘Bhulo sabhi ko tum magar…’ etc. * On this day, organize a collective recital of the ‘Sri Asaramayana’ and conclude it with distribution of sweet prasada among the children. * Get the following pious messages written on cardboards and affix them at the venue of this programme.
a. Bahut raat tak pair dabate, bhare kandh pitu aashish paate.
b. putra tumhara jagat mein sada rahega naam, logon ke tumse sada pooran honge kaam
c. matre devo bhava | pitri devo bhava | acharya devo bhava |
Clearly, by celebrating the February 14th as parents worship day rather than the Valentine day, youths will rediscover the wisdom that is not known due to presence of a blind cover of western culture over the eyes. Sant Asaram Ji Bapu decision to encourage the February 14th as parents worship day will awake the millions of sleeping youths. We will in our further reports cover the news of celebration of parents worship day all over the India.
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