A child is an involvement with innocence. Everyone would have experienced childhood as a sweet phase. But the beauty, we don’t realize it at that time. And every one after they grow up only realizes the importance and sweetness of childhood days. In my childhood days, I never studied so much.
We are always left playing and only playing and are always in a joyful state. Out of our joyful nature, we could learn more things. We used to learn many things about society, people, culture, nature, and whatever we see. Simple involvement made our life out of which the external energy and internal energy get into one aspect of life. We could climb the hills effortlessly.
We would fall and understand we need to slow down and walk, out of which our intelligence was boosted because all the intelligence in the world today is about survivability. We would understand that point in the early stages of life. But nowadays it is through books which are not getting into children experience. In a child’s life, everything has become mechanical and repetitive. Teaching a child from “life in the plant” to “shaping of his own life” is all about information and not experience.
When information goes to children’s heads, it is not required to understand, and that is where the intelligence is stopped. This leads to different problems in the future as the child grows up, because as a life whatever we are doing, we need to understand it and get relevant experience to lead our life. Information without actual experience is damaging.
What is experience?
Experience is something that happens within us. How we get the pain from inside? How we get the laugh from inside? Experience means, right now, you are able to feel yourself, your body, your sense. All these combines works to provide the experience. It is not an isolated phenomenon. It works to build intelligence. Intelligence is not what you study, it is that what makes you experience yourself.
Out of involvement, the intelligence grows to a certain level. For a child, whatever you put it grows because it has certain innocence. It is very important for a child to protect that innocence because that is what determines the strength of life. Innocence cannot be dual in nature, that is why Indian culture children are treated as God. Once the innocence is taken over by intelligence, it can take you to awareness. From awareness, you can move to the realization of yourself.
