By B P Agarwal :
If today you are a graduate in any discipline and engaged in family business, staying with your parents in their house.
1) You have been born after passing through 84 lacs “yonees” as per Hindu scriptures. Human birth is looked upon with jealous by God’s of heaven.
2) You have well settled parents who had taken pains to educate you till graduation. Upon that you have been trained to handle their business.
3) You are served food on your table and not have to either grow it or cook it. A farmer and the cook work with perspiration on their skin day and night.
4) You have enough time in your hands to make friends and visit malls, movies, shows because you got a well settled business without passing through the usual gestation period in any new startup.
5) You could pursue your entire academics for a span of twenty years without any gap only because your health was taken care of by parents via a balanced diet and medical advice from doctors.
6) You never had to face tough entrance tests, personal interviews,group discussions etc for a job as usually done by students in metros. Many commit suicide on failures.
7) You belong to a tax paying family thus contributing to the GDP of a nation. In this way you are discharging your duties as a responsible citizen.
8) You have access to newspapers, television,mobiles, and social media. You are well connected to the events of the outside world within the fraction of a second. It is a fact that newspapers are read by very few nowadays.
9) You have a fixed routine from sunrise to sunset and then late at night. A fixed routine fosters a healthy mind
and body.
10) You have a golden opportunity to carry the legacy of your business to
your sons when they attain a proper age. You will have a very peaceful evening
of your life.
The above are very few gifts of God handed over to you through the
instrumentality of your parents. There is no limit of wants and needs of a human being today.
A life lived with contentment is a life lived with spirituality. All material needs are provoked by seeing the outside world. Close your eyes, but open your mind is the thumb rule.