Sat Naam ji,
dandauth bandhana (please accept my prostration greeting) may I bow to the Light that comes through you.
dandauth bandhana (please accept my prostration greeting) may I bow to the Light that comes through you.
Here is an email to a mother with a baby:
Baba ji said to me that a baby is almost like Pure God , because up until 2 years old its dassam duar (tenth door / crown chakra) is open. Baba ji said "why dont we remember anything of our first two years? Because that wasn't us (ego), that was God)." So make the most of meditating with your baby, if you can see God in him, you will be able to see God within yourself.
What happens after about 2 years, is that maya (worldy attraction) sets in and the dassam duar starts closing. Basically, the child forms its own identity (ego), that is why we get the temper tantrums, because the child wants to assert itself and not to be under parental control. Same thing happens again as a teenager - God makes us get up and think about breaking away from the family unit to make our own family etc.
What happens after about 2 years, is that maya (worldy attraction) sets in and the dassam duar starts closing. Basically, the child forms its own identity (ego), that is why we get the temper tantrums, because the child wants to assert itself and not to be under parental control. Same thing happens again as a teenager - God makes us get up and think about breaking away from the family unit to make our own family etc.
But even the child entering into maya at around 2 year is necessary, becasue each of us is born due to unfinished karma. We have to pay our debts and collect our dues. But for the child, everything in the world is tempting, their desires and wants lead them forward into our adult world. They have to reap what they have sown. As parents the best we can do is to teach them the difference between right and wrong, but then accept that they do have their own destiny.
Sometimes there comes a clash, we want the kids to sit and meditate or do yoga or watch less TV and games etc. But they are not interested. Even then we have to understand their stage, they are going into maya, whilst we have been through that, felt the suffering that desires brought to us, and we are going back to the higher, innocent baby-like mind that was in tune with God.
Our kids are our greatest teachers, I've learnt so much from my two daughters (6 and 8 now). Its taken me a long time and Ihave done everything the wrong way, before realising the right way!!
Just keep bringing in more love. Baba Ji said to me that being thankful makes us into a loving heart and that is where Truth can reside.
Sometimes there comes a clash, we want the kids to sit and meditate or do yoga or watch less TV and games etc. But they are not interested. Even then we have to understand their stage, they are going into maya, whilst we have been through that, felt the suffering that desires brought to us, and we are going back to the higher, innocent baby-like mind that was in tune with God.
Our kids are our greatest teachers, I've learnt so much from my two daughters (6 and 8 now). Its taken me a long time and Ihave done everything the wrong way, before realising the right way!!
Just keep bringing in more love. Baba Ji said to me that being thankful makes us into a loving heart and that is where Truth can reside.
dust of your feet
Harjit
Harjit
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