The childlike temperament can be developed if we awaken Shri Ganesha principle within ourselves, which is a very, very powerful deity. Supposing one child is lost or is hanging somewhere in a tree, the whole community will rush to take out the child. The concern will be there. A child itself is getting all the protection from everywhere. Because the child is growing, everybody wants to help the child.
We have been singing the praise of Shri Ganesha before every puja and we have such tremendous respect for Shri Ganesha, because we have found out that unless and until Shri Ganesha, who is a symbol of our innocence, is awakened within us, we cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
Even to stay there and to enjoy the blessings of Shri Ganesha, we have to have our innocence fully blossoming. So we praise Him and He is very easily praised and whatever we might have done wrong before coming to Sahaja Yoga, He completely forgives, because He is the eternal child.
Entering the Kingdom of God Through Innocence
You have seen children when you slap them, sometimes get angry with them, they forget it. They only remember the love and not what they have suffered at your hands. Until they grow up they do not have memory of bad things done to them. From the very beginning a child is born to a mother, he does not know what he has gone through.
Then gradually the memory starts working and he starts restoring things within himself but in the beginning only he remembers what nice things have happened to him. So we always like to ponder about our childhood what we enjoyed in our childhood.
But as we start growing up, we start remembering all the miseries and all the travailations we had to go through, all the ordeals through which we have passed, we try to magnify it. In childhood, the children only remember the people who have loved them and not the people who have hurt them. They don’t want to remember perhaps, it looks like that. But when they grow up they only try to remember those people
who have harmed them or have troubled them and that’s how they make themselves very miserable. But the principle of Ganesha is extremely subtle. It’s the subtlest of subtle. And it exists in everything. That it exists in the matter in the form of vibrations. There is no matter which is without vibrations. It has vibrations which are seen even in the atoms and also in the molecules of all the matter that is existing.
Shri Ganesha The Eternal Principle in All Creation
Shri Ganesha is the first one who was established in the matter as well. As a result we can see He exists in the sun, He exists in the moon.
He exists in the whole universe, in the whole creation and He continues to exist in human beings also. Only the human beings have capacity to somehow or other cover up the innocence. Otherwise animals are innocent.
Human beings have the freedom. If they want they can cover up their innocence. They can shut down the doors of Shri Ganesha and say that He does not exist. They can cloud it and that is why we find among human beings that they are doing so many horrible things. Avoiding the existence of Shri Ganesha.
But He acts. He acts in a way that He shows natural results of our wrong doings. Like it you do things which are not pleasing to Shri Ganesha, He goes
up to a point, forgives you up to a point and then He starts emerging out as diseases, as physical diseases and in women it becomes a mental disease. Also it can create problems in the nature.
The natural catastrophes are also only the curse of Shri Ganesha. When people start doing wrong things, behaving in a wrong manner collectively then the natural catastrophes come to teach them a lesson. ln His essence though He exists in everything.
Also He has capacity to assent His will to bring forth the destruction of the whole world. We have Shri Ganesha’s idea as a minute thing. We think that if He can go on a little mouse then He must be very minute. He is as minute as He is great. He surpasses all the deities because of His wisdom. He is the giver of wisdom.
He gives us Vidya. He makes us learn. He is our Guru, in that respect Mahaguru, because He teaches us how we should behave. If you try to surpass Him and try to misbehave even the Mother won’t support because She knows that those who surpass Shri Ganesha are also the people who will never respect the Mother.
Growth of Shri Ganesha Within the Child
We have to understand that as children are growing, Shri Ganesha starts growing in them also, but as they are human beings they can somehow or other try to overpower Shri Ganesha. So it is the duty of parents who are Sahaja Yogis to see that they look after their children. In a way, in a detached way, to see that Shri Ganesha in them is settled.
The first sign of Shri Ganesha in a child is wisdom. If the child is not wise, if he is troublesome, if he does not know how to behave, then that shows that the Shri Ganesha is being attacked by him. In the modern times, as it is children are very much under attack.
A child does not have any fear. Ganesha has no fear at all. You should have no fear at all. As long as your Mother is with you, why should you have any fear? Fear of this, fear of that. “I’m frightened I can’t do this, I can’t do that, that children never do.
They’ll try everything if you tell them.” “You should have no fear. I don’t know what fear is!” Nothing is going to go wrong with you. But don’t do wrong things. If you do wrong things it will repel it. It will work out on you. Be straightforward and nothing can harm you.
Everything is laid down for you. Everybody is looking after you. There are so many deities who are working out things for you. You have to be extremely careful that you do not develop this-fear business. Because fear takes you to the left side and once you go to the left side, you know the problems of the left side first of all, you go against Ganesha.
Ganesha is standing at the base of the left. In emotions, you should be bubbling with joy. Joy is your emotion. In action you should be thoughtless. And in ascent, you should be surrendered. That’s all, it’s very simple, three mantras are very simple for children.
Innocence is under attack and it is very difficult for people to make a fine line as to know how far to go with children and how far not to go. The parents must understand that if He is the giver of wisdom there should be wisdom within me. lf I have the wisdom then l have the balance and l don’t lose tempers with children but l try to correct them in such a manner that they get corrected.
On the contrary if you try to be very harsh with your children, they might react and they might go astray. Or you try to be strict with them too much then also they will behave in the same manner, Talk to your own children as Shri Ganesha, Himself does and teach them to respect your Mother. Your Mother means your Holy Mother and your own mother that is very important.
If the father does not make the child respect the mother, the child can never be alright because the authority comes from the father no doubt, but mother must be respected. But for that it is very important that mother must respect the father.
So in the presence of children if you start fighting with each other, misbehaving and behaving in a manner that is not proper will also have very bad effect on the Ganesha Tattwa of the child. This upbringing is of very great importance in Sahaja Yoga because by Gods grace you all have got realized children. So you must know how far to go with your children.
To make them wiser, to be moral, to be righteous. First thing is that you should try to preserve their wisdom. If say something wise; you must appreciate. But they should not also say out of place or out of grace. So the misbehavior is also not to be tolerated in the sense that whatever is wisdom within has to be expressed outside as light. Shri Ganesha establishes within you the higher self.
Vibrations of Innocence The Living Principle of Shri Ganesha
we express the Ganesha tattwa all over, that is vibrations. So the vibrations themselves about which you are asking. These vibrations themselves are nothing but the principle of Shri Ganesha, is Omkara. And that feeling of “vatsalya”, a feeling of love between the child and a mother. That feeling it is the one that is vibrations between the child and the mother.
The distance between the two is vibrations and that’s what one has to feel that he is a child still and there’s the mother and mother is bringing the child, giving all the powers to the child, bringing up loving the child, understanding the limitations of the child, looking after all that, all the sweetness, all the wisdom of the child, to be appreciated, that is vibrations.
You have to guide your children to a proper sane morality. For that you must behave properly. You should not go romantic in the presence of your children.
You should be careful as to the television and things that they show, all what children see, you have to be careful and talk to them that this is wrong, and this will bring problem to us. If you have a proper rapport with children you won’t have any problem. They have so much of this education, despite that how many problems you have with children.
If the children are kept innocent, they never indulge into it and l never get into any problems which are created by curiosity. Never make them curious. You will feel happy, the children will feel happy, and they’ll start their life from the very beginning on the basis of morality. This is what you have to give children – a proper moral sense.
