What If Mother Turns Hostile?

By learning, good manners we gain, If that should arrogance attain, What can be done? Who to complain? If a child by mother is slain. __________________________________________________ Education and learning should basically impart polite good manners. But that results in haughty arrogance? Well, the very purpose is nullified. Note the analogy between education and mother here. This basic tenet in life is highlighted in this subhashita, whose transliteration follows: vidyayā vinaya avāpti sā chet a-vinaya āvahā | kim kūrmah kam prati brumah garadāyām sva-mātari || __________________________________________________ Translations|03.11.13|