Bringing up children - Addenda

serious and they will have to be acquainted with decency . – This also applies to the girls who have already forfeited all female dignity and decency and who feel more comfortable in their roles as gangster’s molls than responsible bearers of a future human race. The spiritual realm looks with great trepidation at your industries’ irresponsible development. Questions and answers February 1960 Question : Ill bred children can drive their parents and teachers to distraction. Is it appropriate to use a specific method of upbringing in these cases? ARGUN : Children can arrange great intrigues. That they can destroy a lot and cause calamities in families is true. But such calamities already begin with the procreation process. What you usually call “genetic” is the sum of your own sins most of the time. • The band of love to these specific children was severed. They came into being due to physical urges and without real LOVE. These children are often enough witness to the pleasures some people have of pushing others to the boundaries of self-control. Do not show them this lack of self-control, always show them a cool, but just pre-eminence. Good students constantly surpass their masters, even evil masters. March 1962 Question : What does the spiritual realm have to say about young people getting married at too young an age , something that is happening more frequently now? ARGUN : The mental maturity is usually present, but the physical side doesn’t keep pace. Even though body and soul are dependent on one another during an incarnation, the physical side does not abide by the will of the spirit. One can not gauge things by external attributes. • The spirit cannot express its maturity in an immature physical body, it is hindered by it. Body and soul represent a kind of collective during an incarnation. Knowing that it will not last forever, the soul has to put up with it. • In regards to marriage, one should not allow any exceptions under the age of 21. 21 years of age is actually still too low. • The balance between body and soul is far better at age 25. It is not a case of experience, but rather a case of mental maturity. • The man should be at least 5 years older than the woman.