Parents watching a child smile one minute, turn tyrannical the next, then hurl obscene phrases at family members, and finally escalate into explosive tantrums may look to appease the child for a time and feel tremendous anger and confusion. Sooner or later, after relentlessly examining their own parenting skills and attending class after class to i

Our want of independence began to smart. It was unbearable that we should be unable to do anything without the elders’ permission. At last, in sheer disgust, we decided to commit suicide! But how were we to do it? From where were we to get the poison? We heard that Dhatura seeds were an effective poison. Off we went to the jungle in search of these

In those higher realms you can access a lot of pure Self, which feels great—even though it doesn’t heal anything and can make exiles feel even more abandoned.