(Eat ghee even if You Have to borrow to buy it)
Chaarvaaka Samhitaa is a great book on Materialism. Chaarvaaka is cunning and puts up good arguments and confuses you to fall in line with his line of thinking. His book was taught in Gurukulas as an exercise to whet the intellect of students to discriminate between truth and "sham" truth. Not to support the Chaarvaaka-view but keep guard against "flowery" words. No Truth, only hollow words.
The Lord takes up one full chapter of the Geetaa to explain the undesirable qualities of humans, not to give any importance, much less any credit, to them. It is only to make it easy for us to recognise the wrong things in life lest we fall into the trap of believing the wrong as good. Telling lies, taking bribes are tempting, when on looks at people making money riding lies and bribes. A friend once told me that when he got into the railways, his naani asked him - what would be his "oopari " income - income over and above the salary.
An Advaita student is taught Dwaita as well. The idea is that no validity is accorded to Dwaitha. It is like a hired mourner wailing at a funeral of a person not related to him.
Chidren must be told the mistakes they should avoid. And keep away from people who commit mistakes. It is a delicate task. The dislike for those persons as such should not be encouraged. In family, we may have fun of some another family but children must be taught that others may have something to laugh at our family and we should not bear hatred or anger at others.
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