TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE STAR

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TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE STAR

"You, old woman" cried Baba, "Why do you beat the boy? The boy will serve me

well. God will endow him with pure desires. Do not fear. Do not beat him." – to

Damodhar Savalram Rasane Kasar’s wife. (Source: HH Pujyasri B V Narasimha

Swamiji’s Devotees Experiences Vol.3)

The child is still a mystery to me. Does God come in the little ones to teach

our hard and wayward hearts?

Children come with radiant faces and singing hearts. Do they come to renew the

child-heart that slumbers still in the grown-up ones?

The simple child-soul will save civilization and lead us to gentleness and

purity, and humble mindedness and to simple-hearted faith in "Our Father in

Heaven".

Great kingdoms crumble to their fail: and God grows weary of thrones and

dynasties. But God is radiant in the roses and the rosy faces of the little

children.

When the disciples asked Jesus who was the greatest in the Kingdom of God, he

called the little child unto him and set him in the midst of them and said:

"Verily, I say unto you: except ye become as little children ye shall not enter

the kingdom of Heaven. And he who humbles himself as this little child, he is

the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven."

Mystery-filled are the children and radiant are they as stars: for they rise

from afar: they come as witness to our Unseen Home. In the eyes of a child

floweth Eternity: and in the heart of a child is the Light that heals!

Philosophers have evolved systems and built up schools, but I know of no better

touchstones for truth and falsehood than the child heart.

Kingdom lie prostrate at the feet of conquerors and kingdoms crumble to dust one

day. But there is a kingdom that crumbles not – a kingdom introduced by time. It

is the Kingdom of Light. Of that, the child-heart is a symbol. Riches and

glories of the earth pass away: but in the pure eyes and lisping words of a

child lie hidden a wisdom that abides.

I have looked at children: I have seen them sit silent: and I have sometimes

felt they understand things better than the grown-ups! Are they

thought-readers? Do not disregard what a little ones say to you. A child will

say suddenly: "Do no do that!" You will do well to listen to what the little

ones say to you. Don’t be rough to them! And to understand them you should love

them. You then may know that life is beautiful: you then may cling to this faith

of childhood in the face of all disappointments of difficult days.

O yet that would grow in the life of the spirit, go and hug you children to your

hearts and kiss you little ones in the cradle and beneath the stars. Love your

children and ask them to bless you and your earth-pilgrimage!

(Author: Sadhu Vaswani)

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:

In the Divine plan, one day each union must end with separation.

(From The Mahabharata)

Tamaso Ma Jyotirgamaya ...

To open our hearts, the following sadhanas are essential.

Bring purity into our lives, without which we will be like a pot with holes,

unable to retain any water. Even a cloth has to be bleached before it can be

dyed.

Give rise to thirst and love for the Lord, after the inner instrument has been purified.

Soften the heart with the fire of this love. Then the heart moves out to those

who suffer and are in pain, agony and misery – whether animal, bird or beast.

That will automatically give rise to abstinence from any food of violence.

Lord Krishna once told all the Gopis and Gwalas to just follow his one request –

do not bend your elbow. This way we would feed one another and not ourselves.

This one action could rid the entire world of all its selfishness.

 

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