For you to make your parents happy, the first requirement is that you must be happy. If you are not happy, how can you give happiness to your parents? There is a basic law of existence: you can only give what you have. How can you suffer and still make others happy? Please, get rid of the notion that you can compromise your life to make others happy.
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Acharya Prashant: Abhishek asks—and it’s very cute of him to ask—he says that “I am not at all interested, yet I want to make my parents proud.”
I am trying to see how you will make your parents proud when you are not into it and what would they be proud of?
And what is this thing called pride?
What is this entire thing that is cooking?
No interest! Still pride! And a desire to fulfil your obligations. Is there any clarity in all of this?
I am sure it is not only him, there are many others. Should I take it that when you say, that when you want to make your parents proud of you, you essentially mean that they should be happy? Can I take that?
