Shri Mataji's Vision for World Peace - Part 3

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Dear All,

 

Shri Mataji does not give general advice for 'World Peace'. She pays attention

to every detail. It is clear that if the 'details' are looked after, that the

'whole picture' will change for humanity. So do human beings understand just how

important all the details are, to achieve a New Age where there is 'World Peace'

instead of 'World War'?....

 

 

In Part 2, we concluded with:

 

" In my own experience, I have seen that children are basically very innocent and

pure. Of course, if the mother and father quarrel all the time or they read

dirty books or see filthy films when the mother is pregnant, it has an adverse

effect on the child. The parents must have complete rapport with their children

and spend more time with them in handling them in a very loving, delicate

manner. If instead of fighting with each other in the presence of children, the

parents spend time in talking to children in the house, keeping them company,

they will definitely create very good children and a great asset to society. "

 

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

Meta Modern Era

'World Peace'

Chapter 8

29/09/95

 

Here now is Part 3.

 

Enjoy.

 

violet

 

 

Shri Mataji's Vision for World Peace - Part 3

 

Even when they take the children out, they should not take them to vulgar

places. Children absorb everything - good or bad. They also learn to gamble. I

knew of some children who used to bet on anything, and fight. On the other hand,

children who are brought up by their parents with loving, caring attention,

become such beautiful, loveable sweeties. Gradually such children start losing

their sense of possessiveness and acquisitiveness. We have two children from

America who came to our school and they became very thin. When I asked: " Why are

they becoming thin? " , the school authorities said: " They are only asking for

Macdonald's burgers and things like that, and in this school we don't have that

provision " . Gradually, the children changed their taste and acquired a liking

for home-made food. The next year when they went home, the parents were

surprised. They asked them: " Would you like to go to Macdonald's? " The children

said: " No, no we don't like it. We don't want to go to all these fast food

shops. We will eat whatever is cooked in the house. " The parents were very

pleased with this transformation. In order to display their happiness and love,

the parents told their children: " Now we want to buy something of your choice

for you, as you will be going back to the school " . The children thought for a

while and then they said: " Can we have a photograph for our school? " These

children were so sweet and are now doing well in the class. They have again put

on weight and are looking very normal.

 

I have noticed that if a house is clean, neat and tidy and if a lot of love is

used in arranging the house, the children don't like to spoil it. They like to

keep it clean all the time. I remember once that my grand-daughter came to my

house and started cleaning one spot on the carpet. Normally in England people

are so particular about keeping their carpets alright, because everything is to

be sold later. I was told that this little grand-daughter of mine had been

working on the carpet for one hour at least. So I asked: " Why are you cleaning

it yourself? We can get it cleaned, later. " " No, no Grandma, your house is so

beautiful and so clean that I must not spoil it with this spot which looks so

ugly! " she said. I was amazed at her understanding and the way she felt

responsible. So if children are made responsible for making things beautiful,

and for keeping them clean and tidy, they would certainly do so. We have seen

this works very well in India and the children immediately take to something

which is creative, artistic, beautiful and which has some message in it. This is

how we can develop their deeper sensitivity.

 

Now the schools. In the schools in Western countries, great emphasis is being

placed on teaching about sex, even to children of a 'small age'. This creates

curiosity in immature minds and results in all kinds of sex-related problems

among children. Most young children's minds are like clay. They can be molded

very easily into beautiful shapes. But if handled carelessly, the shape can be

deformed. They have no pornographic images in their innocent minds. If they are

bombarded with constant images of sex and violence through schools, media and

books, as their minds are like a photographic camera, they retain these

impressions and in their leisure time, all these pictures dance before them. At

that age there is no need to talk about sex because in the countries where

people have not talked about sex, the children don't know about sex until they

are quite grown up and they just keep them out of it until they have to know. In

any case sex education is best provided by the parents - father to son and

mother to daughter. Sex education in an open classroom has the effect of

exciting the children and inducing them to experiment with sex at a very early

age. Uninhibited and excessive indulgence in sex at an early age causes serious

health problems and creates a permissive society. The children lose their sense

of shame about sex which is an exceedingly private matter. In India, if you

start such an education in any school, the parents will withdraw their children

immediately from schools of this kind. Those parents who send their children to

westernized schools are themselves under the influence of Western values.

 

Most of the schools in the West are flooded with this kind of sexual perversion,

because the children already know what sex is and they want to indulge in it.

The teachers have to teach the children how to love, in the pure sense of the

word, how to be compassionate, how to be detached and how to be useful to the

society. That is the first lesson that has to be imbibed by the children. Other

things like arithmetic, spelling and all, that can follow, but the main thing

for the teachers should be to instill all these qualities in the children,

firstly by their own high standards and secondly by teaching them through good

books. Books written by great souls, as well as books which show how a person

suffers, if he does not have these qualities or does not heed the commandments,

have to be followed.

 

Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi

Meta Modern Era

'World Peace'

Chapter 8

29/09/95