mine. It is as if I speak through his tongue and not mine. This sounds strange and interesting at first sight. It is indeed not the kind of feeling that you could talk about to someone unless you had felt it. At those times, I feel that my father’s movements, characteristics and behaviours are reviving in me. I understand that my father is reviving in me.

This is the kind of feeling that shows one is mature. Try to have this kind of feeling. By doing so, you will extend the life of your father and show respect toward him. Respect for the father is respect for the homeland.

NONE WOULD CARE AS MUCH AS MY MOTHER WOULD

My dear Türkmen Nation!

The mother is a sacred being. Then talk of the mother is sacred too.

One can understand the value of sacred things only after one has lost them. The values of certain things can only be perceived after they are lost. A man’s real nature can be understood by looking at his respect toward his mother. A Türkmen saying expresses how beautiful a mother is to her child:

“Fatherless, I am orphan; motherless, I am captive.”

This saying clearly speaks to one with Türkmen feelings and consciousness of how sacred the mother is.

Türkmen people compare the mother to the father to express the fact that the privileged status of the sacred mother cannot be compensated for by anything.

For the Türkmen has a national understanding of the concept of “sacredness.”