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Reconnect With Innocence

Growing up is always considered to be a serious thing. If you grow up in seriousness you only grow old. If you grow up in playfulness, you remain young! It is a good thing to see what children, animals and other creatures are doing at times because they all live with innocence and playfulness. It will help understand and reconnect with innocence.

A small story:

A lion was walking through the jungle taking a poll to determine who was the greatest among all the wild animals.

He came across a rhinoceros and asked, ‘Who is the king of the jungle?’

The rhinoceros replied, ‘Of course you are!’

The lion was happy and walked on. Next, he came across a zebra.

 He asked the zebra, ‘Tell me, who is the king of the jungle?’

 The zebra immediately replied, ‘You are, oh king!’

The lion walked on with great pride and saw an elephant.

He asked the elephant, ‘Tell me, who is the king of the jungle?’

The elephant picked him up with his trunk, and swung him against a large tree. The lion bounced off the tree, hit the ground and said, ‘You don’t have to get so mad just because you don’t know the right answer!’

One who is innocent knows that there is no answers only action can be the answer.

The innocence of the child is still the god given innocence he came with, not the innocence that  he regained through life. The innocence of a child can be easily disturbed, whereas the innocence of a sage can never be disturbed. Getting the innocence disturbed and working to regain it permanently is the process of maturity. That is the travel through to the other end of the spectrum in becoming a saint.

If a child is brought up in love, the innocence of the child is preserved. Then he moves around with his heart, not with his head. He may use his head as a utility but functions from his heart. It does not mean that the child will become useless. No. His innocence will not be corrupted by knowledge, that’s all. He will be centered on love instead of on knowledge, that’s all. Knowledge itself is not the problem. Only the attitude with which it is carried is the problem.