ON THE CHILD

ON THE CHILD

There is a magical thing in a child, but we must open our eyes to him. He is pure, he feels simply, directly, he is spontaneous, flowing.

He is what we are supposed to be. He is that completely, fully. He is unafraid, dancing in joy, always happy, always filled with energy, eager to know, to do new things, to explore.

All this, as a sum, one sees in a child and it charms us. More, it brings about a deep love, respect within us. In fact, if we can really see, we actually see the divine in children.

They fill us with a deep feeling of reverence actually, even awe and wonder at man in his pure form.

That is why most people are blind to children and in their blindness crush children. They do not know what they are doing, the incalculable harm that they cause.

A child forgives and forgets in his magnificent generosity, in his kindness, innocence and trust with respect to adults, in his making adjustments for adults’ idiosyncrasies and making peace.

When a child smiles, laughs, does anything it springs from deep within him. A child is devoid of hypocrisy. He does not (yet) know that phenomenon.

The child makes the man!

The leaps, the upward thrust, the psychobiological process of growing up is impossible without this divine fire that man is born with.

But it is not usually a successful process because man intervenes, limits, stultifies, corrupts, confuses and above all places a burden and stress and on the whole starves the child of values.

To be, just to be is not a fulfillment. One needs experience, feed (of knowledge), exploration, doing things. It is something a child needs.

The real deprivation is not of food but the lack of anything exciting, interesting, wonderful, the lack of values around one.

The saddest thing is when a child is bored, the boredom that kills him, that inhibits the flowering process, the prison walls erected, the lack of fresh, clean snatches of air.

When one looks at the child, one feels that child’s capacity is infinite. He is a deep well and his receptivity is very high.

It is this profound view and respect and reverence that we need to have with respect to the child and it is then that he would see a divine flowering - man as he was intended to be, ought to be by his very nature.

Only this can bring about a new world!