Guest guest Posted April 21, 2003 Report Share Posted April 21, 2003 Dear learned Advaithins I always wondered at the sight of a new born baby smiling and crying during it sleep hours.:-)It smiles as though it sees something and it cries as though its hurt by something very bad..I browsed the net and couldn't get a satisfactory answer.How can a new born laugh and cry in such a manner when it has no any previous experience of joy or sadness or in a way it has not experienced any complexities of life .How can we explain this in an advaithic point of view? Rgards Suja Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 21, 2003 Report Share Posted April 21, 2003 Namaste Suja. That is a very good question where I myself would like to be educated. All Members, please help. PranAms. Madathil Nair _______________ advaitin, "suja_unni" <suja_unni> wrote: > Dear learned Advaithins > I always wondered at the sight of a new born baby smiling and crying > > during it sleep hours Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 21, 2003 Report Share Posted April 21, 2003 Suja Greeings. When you are enjoying that smile - don't look for explanations. Just enjoy and be one with that smile and that is adviata not the explanations. Hari OM! Sadananda --- suja_unni <suja_unni wrote: > Dear learned Advaithins > I always wondered at the sight of a new born baby smiling and crying > > during it sleep hours.:-)It smiles as though it sees something and it > cries as though its hurt by something very bad..I browsed the net and > couldn't get a satisfactory answer.How can a new born laugh and cry > in such a manner when it has no any previous experience of joy or > sadness or in a way it has not experienced any complexities of > life .How can we explain this in an advaithic point of view? > Rgards > Suja > > > > > > > > ===== What you have is His gift to you and what you do with what you have is your gift to Him - Swami Chinmayananda. The New Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo http://search. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 21, 2003 Report Share Posted April 21, 2003 advaitin, kuntimaddi sadananda <kuntimaddisada> wrote: > Suja > Greetings. When you are enjoying that smile - don't look for > explanations. Just enjoy and be one with that smile and that is adviata > not the explanations. > > Hari OM! > Sadananda > > Namaste, For advaita with explanations, visit: http://www.phenomenologyonline.com/articles/template.cfm?ID=33 ........In this light too the parent sees the first smile of the child. And the parent understands this smile, like Frederik van Eden who poetized this most sensitively: Then he smiled, the first of his life And thus he came to us from a far still land .. . . He sent us to hold this sign of love He who smiled himself–no longer alone by himself Even more depthful ring Virgil's words through the ages because they sing most succinctly of the unity of life and awareness of the awakening spirit. Incipe, parve puer, risu cognoscere matrem. 2 This passage is from Eclogue, IV, line 60. Literally it says "Begin, small boy, to acknowledge your mother with a smile." A more existential reading would not be inappropriate for incipe to mean that the child "begins to come into being" in acknowledging his mother with a first smile. The context makes it clear that what Virgil is talking about is the acknowledgment the child (although parve puer is masculine) owes its parents, in particular his mother. Rishi Vamadeva must have had the smile of the sage! Regards, Sunder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 21, 2003 Report Share Posted April 21, 2003 Hari OM! Blessed sujaji, Swami Chinmayanandaji use to say, the new born child is not really smiling because of He/She is happy or cyring because of sad, it is developing the muscles of the face so it just tries to get the elasticity of its muscles to really smile or cry in life! With Love & OM! Krishna Prasad --- suja_unni <suja_unni wrote: > Dear learned Advaithins > I always wondered at the sight of a new born baby smiling and > crying > > during it sleep hours.:-)It smiles as though it sees something and > it > cries as though its hurt by something very bad..I browsed the net > and > couldn't get a satisfactory answer.How can a new born laugh and cry > > in such a manner when it has no any previous experience of joy or > sadness or in a way it has not experienced any complexities of > life .How can we explain this in an advaithic point of view? > Rgards > Suja > > > > > > > > The New Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo http://search. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 21, 2003 Report Share Posted April 21, 2003 Namaste Sujaji: When the child smiles or cries, it happens spontaneously and such smiles and cries stay during those moments. Emotional expressions of pleasure and pain are part and parcel of human life and the child is no exception. The adults with stored experiences of sorrowful events allow the emotional experience of pain to linger and entertain unnecessary sufferings. The famous saying that `pain inevitable but suffering is avoidable ` is quite relevant while comparing the experience of the child. Child only gets the pain and has no suffering after the pain. >From the Vedantic point of view, the child is always happy. Our problem is that we perceive that a smiling baby is happy and crying baby is unhappy. This incorrect notion is based on the stored memories of experiences is responsible for developing the yardstick of measurement of happiness. Warmest regards, Ram Chandran -- In advaitin, "suja_unni" <suja_unni> wrote: > Dear learned Advaithins > I always wondered at the sight of a new born baby smiling and crying > How can we explain this in an advaithic point of view? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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