Daily Meditation: Friday, November 7, 2003

How many young people, dissatisfied with their …

11/07/2003

How many young people, dissatisfied with their circumstances, blame their parents! Their parents do not understand them, they do not provide them with good conditions for their development, and they are deplorable examples for them. It may be true, but they should not blame them. If they have such parents, and not others, it is because they have deserved them. Yes, if they had deserved to live in other conditions, they would have been given other parents. The person who, thanks to the work he has already done in previous lives, is predestined to become a musician or a painter of genius, reincarnates in a family that provides the conditions for his gifts to be developed. If he deserves to be weak, handicapped, or ill, divine justice sees to it that he reincarnates in a family that transmits to him every weakness, every defect. Parents are responsible only on the surface; they should not be reproached, because they are only carrying out orders. All the defects a human being inherits from them were created by him; he had already formed them within himself long ago through his thoughts, feelings, and actions in previous incarnations. So, instead of reproaching his parents, each person, if he is to evolve, must blame only himself.