Monday, August 16, 2010

The Best Friend of Man is..............................

The "Best Friend" of Man?????.............................His Wife..........read to know.

The Yaksha asked,-

What is the soul of man?

Who is that friend bestowed on man by the gods?

What is man's chief support?

And what also is his chief refuge?

Yudhishthira answered...........................

The son is a man's soul:

the wife is the friend bestowed on man by the gods;

the clouds are his chief support;

and gift is his chief refuge.

It is the cardinal concept of Indian life that one's son is just the external growth of oneself, to be loved, to be possessed, to be trained and to be cherished as one would do for himself. The srutis say, when a son is born, while performing his samskaras, we have to tell him that you are born as a part of myself..aatma vai putra naamasi.. (here again gender is not important... it applies to the daughter also... ) .

The best friend ordained by God himself for any man is his wife. Good or bad, learned or imbecile the man is, the poor woman always keeps his company. (The feminists may have a different view, but in our country the vast majority is like that. For the support of ones livelihood in this earth, the clouds that pour the nectar of pure water to sustain the earth and the life on it, is the most important factor. A man gains sustenance in the nether world by making bounteous gifts to the needy in this world and there for it is his refuge.

Sometimes gift come as a refuge for the poor on this earth when it is recieved by the needy.

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