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appearance of a child fills the emptiness of home whereas his departure makes us feel loneliness. A family that enjoys children is a glory of that house, society and nation. The family that has no child is an impotent family. We all were children ever once. One who has the feeling of a child even in old age, is never old in real. I always pray to God for keeping me enabled to feel and enjoy the feelings of a child at every juncture of my life.
There must be an existence of childhood but it should not turn into childishness. Lord Jesus had once said, “An entry into the states of heaven is possible only for those who are sincere, sober, simple and polite like Children. Only such people can get entry into the heaven." You would have seen the children quarrelling. They will keep on quarrelling for ten minutes and then they become friends as usual, as earlier. They will soon become friends and will begin there study and playing together. And we people will quarrel for two minutes but will keep jealousy, hatred and revengeful feelings for 2yrs. Now, decide yourself to whom should we consider great, to us or to children? Do quarrel but never end our relations. Everybody knows that anger is harmful. Getting angry with someone is not a good thing but nobody follows it. We should follow the tendency of children. A child becomes happy and forgets his anger when he gets an affectionate touch. A child laughs for a moment and weeps also for a moment but we, if begin laughing at someone, keep on laughing or if we begin weeping at someone, keep on weeping continuously.
O Lord! You make us children only. The children could become a great personality even in their childhood. Dhruv and Prahlad were also children. Atimukta Shankaracharya was also a child. And these children had got all in their tender age that a person can not get even in his old age. Pray to God that there might be visibility of rosy smiling of
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