\u201cMatri Devo Bhava\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPitri Devo Bhava\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAchaarya Devo Bhava\u201d<\/p>\n
Translation:<\/p>\n
Let your Mother be God<\/p>\n
Let your Father be God<\/p>\n
Let your teacher be God<\/p>\n
This verse is taken from Taitarya Upanishad. In Hindu culture parents and teachers are considered equivalent to God. We believe that God loves cares and nourishes you through your Parents. He provides knowledge to you through your teacher. He blesses you through them.<\/p>\n
Parents always bless you when you approach them with open heart. Achieving success in God\u2019s worship without caring for one\u2019s Parents and teachers is impossible. Humans have true well wishers in the form of their parents and teachers. They are more delighted in person\u2019s success and achievements than the person himself.<\/p>\n
In Hindu families, we put a great deal of emphasis on respect for parents and elders. Many of you have observed a common custom of bowing down to touch the feet of elders and parents to seek their approval and blessings. It is the most common yet a very powerful gesture that signifies the importance of respect for parents and elders.<\/p>\n
Just like it is parents\u2019 duty (dharma) to take care of their children and raise them to be good citizens, for children their parents serve as the divinity in person.<\/p>\n
Hinduism is replete with stories of great sacrifices made by noble people to fulfill the desires of their parents. For example, Lord Rama left his kingdom and spent fourteen years in exile to keep his father\u2019s words. Shravan Kumar carried his blind and frail parents on his shoulders to pilgrimage of \u2018char dham\u2019 (Hindu holy places) to fulfill their desire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cMatri Devo Bhava\u201d \u201cPitri Devo Bhava\u201d \u201cAchaarya Devo Bhava\u201d Translation: Let your Mother be God Let your Father be God Let your teacher be God This verse is taken from Taitarya Upanishad. In Hindu culture parents and teachers are considered equivalent to God. We believe that God loves cares and nourishes you through your Parents. He provides knowledge to you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-8","category-monthly-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hawan.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawan.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}