Women are taking
to modern education in
larger and larger numbers nowadays.
They are serving in offices,
schools and factories.
They are also rising
to positions of authority in other fields.
But most of them are prompted
by urges of personal aggrandizement
rather than ideals of service.
When women run after jobs,
who is to run the family?
If both father and mother move
into offices to earn money,
what becomes of the children?
Pouring over books,
how can the kitchen work?
More money may be earned,
but it leads only to more anxiety,
more unrest and more loss.
The women who
take up jobs are finding
that they have no happiness worth the name.
The educated woman
must utilize her knowledge
and skill to bring up her children into healthy,
vigorous and disciplined youths
who may be of use to their country,
their culture and their community.
Earning money is not the end-all of education.
You have the great responsibility
of motherhood and the duty
of educating your children into strong
and good citizens of the country.
Along with the university degree,
you must also acquire general knowledge
which is essential for householders and others.
Otherwise, though the husband
and the wife may both be degree-holders,
they would be helpless and desperate
should the baby catches a slight cold.
You must also be conversant
with some spiritual disciplines
like naamasmarana, meditation and Yoga,
so that you may not be carried away by every changing breeze.
Women are the makers of the home,
the nation and the world.
You are the mothers
who shape the generations.
So, you must enshrine in your hearts
the spiritual urge towards Light and Love, Wisdom and Bliss.
divinely sent
