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Seeing The Whole Picture KIDS Ask your parents to help you with with the experiment.
by Narendra Shak
KORNER
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In this issue we will see how our actions can be cruel and harmful when we make judgments without enough information. Read this story first. Once a little boy, who was deaf and lame, was sitting watching a football game. The ball came near him and one player shouted to him to kick the ball. The deaf boy did not move because he did not hear and he could not have kicked any way. The player got angry, thinking that the boy was not being friendly, and started calling him names. The boy still did not get angry or move. Then the player came near him and pushed him but the boy did not stand and fight or run away. Then another player who was the boy's friend, told the first player that the boy was deaf and lame. Then the first player was sorry for shouting and hitting the boy and said he would not have done so if he had known this.
í The pictures show how this works:
Picture 1 - Like looking through a small hole; EXPERIMENT:. Now try an we cannot tell what it is. It could be a tortoise experiment. Take a piece of paper
shell or a football. and punch a small hole as thick as
Picture 2 - Like looking through a bigger hole; a pencil in its centre. Then look at
it is probably an animal, but which one? the room through the hole without
Picture 3 - looking without anything blocking Picture 1 moving your head. Notice that you
your view. You can see the whole Giraffe with can see very little of the whole room,
the roller-skates. only what is directly in front of you. Now make
Paint this picture and cut it out to stick on the hole bigger and then look as before. You can
your bedroom wall. see more now but still cannot see things near the edges of the hole. Take the paper away completely and you can see the whole room. Most of us look at the world as if we were looking through a small hole. So
we only see or understand a small
part of anyone or any situation. What a Laugh!
Therefore we have to be very Fascinating Non-fact: careful about how we look at and
Picture 2 A giraffe's neck is so long judge other people and situations, since we cannot that it has to stand on a see the whole of it. The people who have achieved self-realisation chair to clean its teeth!
and 'Enlightened Perception' (Samyag Darshan - Picture 371
true perception or faith) have better vision. They can see things (as if through the bigger hole in our experiment). They can listen to the spirit inside them. Next the Kevalis (Arhant Bhagwan) who have achieved Omniscience or complete knowledge' (Keval Gnaan) can see everything clearly, like when you looked without the paper in front of you. Only they can see everything completely. So we have to stay 'open-minded to try and become like them. When our 'minds' are made up, it is impossible to hear the spirit inside us. This inner voice talks to us all the time. To hear it, we have to quieten our minds by sitting silently. So everyday we must spend some time just sitting Did You Know? quietly and listening Recycling aluminium to our inner voice.
cans can save nearly £36 million every year.
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