Words from the Master

Now listen to this:

A man took his city friend to his farm.
He showed him around and later asked him, “You must have found it amazing to see so many sheep! Did you attempt to count them?”
The friend replied, “Oh yes, there were 300.”
The man was surprised and asked, “How did you manage to count them?”
The friend replied, “Oh, it was simple. I counted the number of legs and divided them by four.”

This is not intelligence! This is a way to show how we complicate simple things in life.

Next, coming to innocence: Children are the best way to understand innocence. They just speak out without any editing. They don’t calculate; they are so total in their behavior, never cunning or hypocritical. This is innocence.

But what do we do to them? We try our best to teach them how to edit their words, how to manipulate. We teach them to move from their heart to their mind so that their pure innocence becomes contaminated by the mind.

A small story:

One boy was told that a wealthy aunt was coming to his home that day and that he had to be in his best behavior.
The aunt arrived and a grand dinner was served for her.
The boy was watching her continuously throughout the dinner and finally asked, “Auntie, when are you going to do your trick?”
The lady asked, “What trick my dear?”
The boy replied, “My dad said that you drink like a fish!”

(Laughter!)

Children simply talk what they feel like. They express so freely. That is why they are so joyful to watch. That is why we all enjoy them. Their innocence attracts us. But we don’t understand this and we teach them to become cunning, to become manipulative. This is what we do continuously.

A small boy went up to her grandfather and asked, “Grandpa, can you really imitate a frog?”
The grandfather was surprised and asked, “Why do you ask?”
The child relied, “I heard my parents saying that when you croak, we will have a small fortune left for ourselves.”

(Laughter!)

We are being hypocrites all the time. We never express ourselves freely. We are thinking something and talking something else. We have become so ugly because of this. We have simply lost our innocence. Children are not hypocrites. They are so natural. They are beautiful because they express themselves freely.

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This excerpt has been taken from the book: Guaranteed Solutions.