Passage 1

In English

Children have unselfish love. They are innocent onlookers; they observe the action of the elders and they learn their lessons from home much earlier than from school. So, parents have to be very careful in their behaviour with the children and between themselves. There was a judge who used to come to . He asked his wife and child to stay with and left for home for a few days. He said to the boy when he left, “This is God Himself” After some time they fell in with a (person from) , who was reciting musically some Puranic story. Within a few minutes, they heard him revile as a mad man and a cheat. The child could not stand it. He tugged at his mother’s and forced her to return to . Next morning, they approached for his blessings, and He asked them why they had returned. The incident of the was duly reported. The boy heard everyone addressing as the Lord. Remembering the harsh words of the , the boy wept, but pacified Him humorously, “I am only a man. What the said is true. I am mad, and I am cheating people of what they consider very valuable but what I feel is useless.” Then, even as they were talking, one Mr. came there and related how had saved his child from a serious accident. told him, “Yes, I held him when he fell, with My four hands. “ shed tears of thankfulness; but the boy cried out “Ah I told you, You are God; You have four hands, like .” laughed; He took the boy inside and gave him a vision of Himself, as having four hands. That boy stayed on in for 26 years after this and left it only after “left”. He then became a renunciant and became a great sage.