When we were very young and had no knowledge of the outside world, we all would only look up to our parents for wisdom. We still do.
Today that we are talking about Guru Purnima, I think the biggest wisdom we could take from our first teachers, our parents, is unlearning a few of their learnings.
The one big ignorance I see in our world is how most people become an exact replica of their parents. It’s an incredible thing, if you are copying their qualities. But it is something to unlearn, if we are copying the traits that made them miserable in the first place.
So you can learn unconditional love from your mother without sacrificing your physical and mental health like mother.
You could learn how to be a responsible human being from your father without letting others walk over you.
Guru is a Hindi word, which means “dispeller of ignorance”.
Maybe we could begin with letting go of our own ignorance, and not becoming like our parents worst parts, but only picking their brightest parts.
