The Blessing of Progeny  

61                A good progeny with sound discretion, is the blessing of blessings to a person; all the rest are hardly a blessing!

62                If one has a progeny, virtuous and beyond infamy, there will be no ill for him, even unto seven births.

63                A son does good acts like charity, too ensue salvation to his father.  So, a person rates his son as the greatest treasure he has secured.

64                The simple food given by the tender hands of a little son, is relished by the father as sweeter far than nectar!

65                The clasp of a son’s body gives joy to the father‘s body; the lisping prattle of the child, when heard, gives this to his ear.

66                Only till the sweet prattle of his own son is not heard, will the sound of the lute and the flute seem sweet to a person.

67                The best help that a father can render to his son is to give him a good education and make him a great scholar.

68                It is not alone the father that delights in beholding a learned son; all other human beings too find greater delight in it.

69                “Your son is virtuous and greatly learned” – if these words spoken by great persons are heard by a mother, she will have happiness greater far than the delight she had, when first she gave birth to him.

70                “What great austerities should the father have done to merit such a son?” – when such words of praise are uttered by people, that son indeed has conferred the greatest assistance to his father.