Are we guiding our children in the right path?

While we were children we listened to various stories of Hinduism and about our Gods during festivals or seasonal kathakalakshebams by great people like Anantha Rama Dikshidar, Mukkur Sri. Lakshmi Narashima Chariyar, Thooppul Sri. Lakshmi Narashima Chariyar, Sri. Balakrishna sasthrigal, Sri Jaya Rama Sharma, Sri. Keran and more recently Our Velukudi Krishnan. The stories were depicted as laid down in our mythology and even when they expressed their views on certain incidents etc., it is only to sharpen our understanding on the subject story or the greatness of a particular character.
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Whereas nowadays, I see that the children are fed with lots of cds marketed by commercial minded people who depict Hindu Gods like Hanuman or Vinayaga through their graphical talents and make children feel very lightly about the mighty Gods. The stories and incidents shown there are not the true ones but made by their talents in line with the present days’ trend. For example depicting Hanuman as school boy in a cd.
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We always have Bhakthi on our Gods which is a mixture of certain level of fear. It is like the fear we have while we behave in front of elders or big people.The present children will not have such a bhakthi with our Gods but will presume them as their school friend. More over certain depictions shown in these cds show certain unrealistic scenes to lure children towards doing things which are not possible at all in normal life. By seeing these things some children who have tough characters or a bit violent or courageous will get into troubles and put others also into trouble.
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I can tell an example of a true incident wherein one boy tried to jump from his flat telling that he wanted to fly like Hanuman. These cds or stories will make children to feel that they are not Gods and when they go to temples they may not have pious feeling. There is no censorship for these cds and so only the parents should decide to discourage children from seeing and having different conclusions on our Gods.
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In our busy life parents who both go to offices find easy ways to give diversions to their children by procuring these cds, instead they should try to get cds of the above great people’s thereby we will make our children to listen to good words in our mother tongue and true stories. This listening and seeing will give them the real bhakthi and our culture instead of considering God equal to their neighbour or a playmate. When children grow higher than our shoulders we can become their friends but we should not give the same treatment to God.
Anyway this is my feeling. I invite comments on this.

 

Hi Meenloch,

I am also one big fan of 'ambulimama' in tamil. and we used to read '3 mandira vadigal' 'karupu muthu' in Kalki weekly. But they are just like Phanthom or bat man stories. Just they are comics. In that more we use our imagination.

But when we talk about cds they will affect more because they are visual. Generally the children used to see cds many times a day and as you say they are raw clay. Once they started believing such unwanted or untruth it is very hard to change them. More over the parents don’t know about their situation. So these people could not help children. Now a days parents are thinking that their duty ends with buying cds. But it is not like that; that is our responsibility to check whether it is correct or not. Then only we can allow our children to watch.
Another thing we Indians will fight for nothing and as you said they are protesting for Jodha Akbar and some cinema like that. But there is no one to fight against this. That is why I am worried and wrote this. We parents must stop buying these kind of cds or we have to explain our children that they are not real stories and they are also like fairy tails.
Even though they show the charters of our Gods. Thanks for your comments.

 

Hi Shanti,
Your are correct. Already in one of my blogs I wrote about this reason for celeberatind 'deepavali'. For North India and South India there is one 'yug' difference. Even though somebody says that both are on the same day. But we are not tought like that. So already we are having many confusions and these people are increasing them by their visual graphic talente.

 

Dear Latha,
I am waiting for one post like this.:hiyaBecause you people are very important. People like you only handle this very nicely. Because you can give feed back to the cd companies and you people must refuce to buy if the stories are not true. You must not encourage cds like this.
On the other hand, you have to teach your son or daughter the correct one and explain well about our Gods. You have to watch them and if they are really want to know about our God you help them by telling them stories from Ramayana or Maha barath. Or now a days you are getting many 'kadha kalachebam' cds MP3 or even VCDS and DVDS about our God. You can get them and put for your children. Dont say you are helpless. Please discuss with others about your problem.
Strictly speaking this is not oonly your problem this is our National Problem. The future is in the hands of our children. Is it not?

 

Hi lalitha,

as you side we have to guide our children which is real one and which is fiction. That is what I want parents to do. As Kaushalya said, when we are away form our mother land and the children are away from their grand parents we have to depend on CDs . no doubt in that. but the children should not get wrong stories or wrong impressions on our gods, that is my point. thanks for stepping in and sorryf or delay in reply.