When children are born, the lives of their elders expand, and their strength also increases. In a very loving satsang, Hazir Swaroop Sai Sadhram Saheb explained how our children become our strength.
He said that once, a man came home and started complaining to his wife about how weak he had become with age, and how deeply saddened he felt because of it. His wife asked him why he was saying such a thing. The man explained that while returning home, he had tried to break a branch of a tree along the way but couldn’t. He had used all his strength, yet failed, and this made him feel just how weak he had become.
Seeing her husband upset, the wife lovingly told him that he was mistaken. To prove him wrong, she called their grown-up children and asked them to go and bring the same tree that their father had mentioned. All the children went, cut down the tree together, and brought it home.
The wife then said to her husband, “Your strength hasn’t lessened, it has developed and now lives within your children. Look, because of your strength in them, they were able to bring the entire tree home for you.” She helped her husband understand that when parents grow older, their strength doesn’t diminish, it transforms and lives on in their children. In fact, that strength multiplies and becomes even more powerful.
Children are the strength of their parents.
Saijan emphasized that we must recognize how this growing strength should be nurtured and further strengthened. We must understand that our children are our support, our pride, and our power. We should encourage them and raise them in such a way that they always feel they are an inseparable part of their parents and grow strong with hard work and wisdom.