There is a small example.
In our home there are our children.
Along with our children, there is also a servant. In the house,
a son may be pilfering something or the other and developing bad habits.
In many ways we will try and control
that son by beating, by scolding, and
persuading him to return to good ways
but we will never take him and hand him over to the police.
In the same house,
if the servant boy steals a small spoon,
at once we will take him and hand him over to the police.
What is the inner meaning of the situation
in which we do not punish a son, even if he steals day after day,
but we hand over a servant boy immediately to the police
when he steals even a small thing?
The reason for this is the narrow idea that 'this boy is my son'.
Because the servant does not belong to you,
there is no place for forbearance and patience.
So you see that when you have the broad idea
that 'everyone is mine', there is room for patience and forbearance.
It is only then that our love will also grow.
