Passage 4

In English

The richest inheritance you can give children

Poison and nectar cannot merge; Being () can merge only with Being; nature is full of Supreme Reality ( is ); Supreme Reality is full of nature ( is )! Cloth is yarn-illusion and yarn is cloth-illusion. One is meaningless without the other. The childhood stage is the pure Being stage, and if you can manage to live on with that innocence, as Sage did, you can achieve merger quite naturally. The sun’s rays wait outside your closed door, silently and patiently. Open it to the width of a chink, and it gladly rushes in through that chink. Open it wider, and it bathes you in light and warmth. Children’s minds are always open; they have no closed doors, which bring in the darkness. That is why their smile is like sunlight in a grief-stricken home. and achieved the vision of the Lord and liberation for themselves not by means of a trick or stratagem but by transmuting their minds by spiritual practices into the divine instrument for salvation. Of course, what do you seek in life? Joy, mutual harmony, unison, and love - between the officer and clerk, the master and servant, the husband and wife, the father and son. In fact, these four are essential between any two who are bound by rights and duties. Sow the seeds of these harmonious qualities even while your children are young - that is the richest inheritance you can give them, the most useful insurance against the attack of despair, despondency, and discontent.