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One more thing I would like to add is we Hindus should discard the thinking of "don't ask any questions and just follow what has been laid down" when we are dealing with children.

I was once reading to my son a paragraph from the Ramayan where Dasharatha was being praised as a virtuous person and then I came to the line where he had incurred a curse for mistaking the sound of a pitcher filling up water to be an elephant drinking water where he ended up killing a man.

My son asked me "Amma you just said Dasharatha was a virtuous person..what was he doing hunting and killing animals in the forest?" Isn't that being heartless?"

So I had to explain to him that it was accepted then for a King to be hunting but nowdays we have laws that forbid hunting of wild animals and also frankly speaking I would also find hunting to be an heartless act.
So if Dasharatha was born today he would have been caught for poaching wild animals.

Our explanation has to be move with the times and a logical explanation should be given to kids and those who want to know.

If we do not know admit we do not know and try reading up and searching for the answer or asked a learned person.

We Hindus are losing out cos of our attitude that "do not ask too many questions" and we are NOT USER/CUSTOMER FRIENDLY in our approach.

I see the Church is very very user and customer friendly and they go down to the grass root level to preach.
When they preach they do not judge the individual till they snare him.
They have got tactics to sweet talk people into conversion.

So be a bit more CUSTOMER FRIENDLY in approach.

To elders who have knowledge..just don't sit and whine that culture and religion is on the decline.
Do something about it..conduct religious classes for children in your free time.

Even if turn out is poor it does not matter..even one sincere dedicated student can make a change in the world.

Here I would like to highlight that my father makes it a point to take religious classes for children on weekends and is quite in demand these days and he covers more than 2 places for his Bal Vikas classes.

He has also come out with his second book on Sathya Sai and Shiridi Sai Baba and the book is on sale in India can be purchased at Puttaparthi.
All money from sales goes to charity.


If this is possible in a country like Malaysia and by a Malaysian citizen I am sure the more learned elders in India can do a fantastic job.