The Prodigal Son is a parable Of Jesus the Christ.
Jesus used stories or parables to share his higher perspective of life.
He knew that only those who were awakened to their spiritual path could see their higher meaning.
It was the mission of Jesus to share his higher perspective of life with all others, even though he knew that those who were unawakened, without the spiritual eyes to intuitively see their meaning, could only listen to the parables.
To Jesus, we are all spiritual Sons of God and every Son is a physical incarnation of the Father or their Soul.
The Soul is the Father who allows every Son in physical incarnation the ability of their own choice.
We all follow a unique path that our spiritual Father has chosen for us, except most people do it without a conscious-awareness of their personal destiny.
Without a clear vision for our life, the path can lead us into temptation, where we can become very lost, confused & frustrated by our lack of foresight & insight.
On returning home to his physical family, the Prodigal Son is received with approval & acceptance by his paternal father but with anger & jealousy by his sibling brother.
Jesus reminds us that we always have a choice in our life even though our path is fore given to us. We are never really off track although there may be many times when it appears that way to both ourself and others.
The moral of the tale is one of unconditional acceptance by the father, which allows unconditional forgiveness for his son.
The father sees the true path of his son as prodigious, abundant & expansive, whereas others may see it as wasteful, reckless & extravagant.
In the eyes of the Soul of our True Father, we are all Prodigal Sons or Prodigal Daughters and every unique, exclusive & individual journey through every lifetime is a prodigious and abundantly expansive experience.