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3529. 1 SPIRITUAL LIGHT. mont by refined culture and noble education, in the face of many hardships and struggles.
We also find instances of parents, who out of contemptible covetousness, for the sake of worldly advancement and high authority, have not scrupled a moment to sacrifice the best interests of their children in matters, social, political and religious. Some monstrous parents sell their darling daughters in marriage out of irresistible greed of money. Some lowminded parents spoil the interests of their childrön in order to gratify their unquenchable thirst for social and political rise. It is highly blasphemous to give such wicked monsters the sacred names of parents. The author therefore rightly, observes that words or commands of parents who are irreligious, immoral, unprincipled and unscrupulons should not be obeyed if they conflict with morality, good conscience, religious doctrines and sacred principles. It does not mean that they should be illtreated with hatred or contempt but means should be adopted so that their moral, mental and spiritual condition of life may be ameliorated.
But also we have instances of wicked sons who have mercilessly illtreated their parents for the sordid greed of wealth, authority, acquisition of land and kingoms as well as out of irrational arrogance and servile submission to the will of females. Sooner or later they are doomed to suffer from the visitation of dire calamities. ૨૮
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