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#2.2 The Human Child and The Childish Human

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The Thinker  : A bronze statue of a man sitting on a rock and thinking is one of the finest sculptures ever produced. With 'The Thinker' as the central point, Films Division in 1981 released this short film for small children. Many of us might have seen this. It is requested to go through this film before proceeding with the post.  ________________________________ So, this is the saga of a child, a simple and innocent child. He thrives on earth since time immemorial, in a way he is eternal. He is learning from the smallest of small happenings on the planet. He observes the stars and is fascinated by the changing phases of Moon. He infact walks through many dimensions. Somewhere he builts a raft and crosses the Nile. He is an Austrian and also enjoys the freshness of the Himalayas, he navigates through the Atlantic and lives in the Steppes. This is the tale of that child. When the child was yet not born, as his peers presume, an unicellular organism, perhaps a bacter

#2.1 The Human Child and The Childish Human

"A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice, but as yet unstained.” ____________________________________  It is difficult to precisely point out but whenever it might have happened, that our egocentrism might have receded thus expanding our range of thought from 'I' and 'Me', and we would have started actively interacting with the surrounding environment, we all might have had all sorts of aims, goals and purposes. They might have been as silly as procuring a chocolate or as serious as reforming the world, isn't it? The same goal with some polishing has evolved itself into Today to land us into Tomorrow.  Once upon a time even I had some crazy ideas swirling in my head. And one day I came across this line - "Avaghāchi Samsār Sukhāchā Karín, Ānande Bharīn Teenhi Lok" meaning "I hereby resolve to make this world a better place to live in, leaving all the three fields totally blissed out."