Table of Contents
A child's heart and a child's dreams
- A child's sweet hopefulness
- A child's heart and a child's dreams
- The significance of a child
- A childlike heart
- Question: Do children see more beauty than grown-ups do?
- Question: How can we fulfil the hearts and souls of the children of the world?
Your role as a parent
- God reaches down
- The role as a parent
- Freedom and discipline
- Material wealth and love
- The mother's love
- Seeing God in your child
- Setting a spiritual example
- Question: What is the best attitude for bringing up children?
- Question: What is a mother's duty in bringing up children?
- Question: What is the responsibility of the father in bringing up children?
- Question: How should parents work together in bringing up children?
- Question: How can I be a better wife and mother?
- Question: Isn't the love between mother and child often possessive?
- Question: Do you feel that having only one parent affects children, and if so, how?
- Question: What advice can you offer to single parents?
- Question: Can a bad mother make her son great?
- Question: What if your child is very active and his energy is taking away from your energy? You really can't speak to him, because he doesn't understand, so what can you do to try to calm his vibrations?
- Question: Whenever I get unhappy, it generally has to do with my attachment, concern and worry about my 14-year-old daughter.
Your child's spiritual growth
- Be spontaneous like a child
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- Question: Is a parent responsible for a child's aspiration?
- Question: What is the best thing I can give to my child?
- Question: Why do you recommend using the word 'Supreme' as God's Name?
- Question: When a child asks you, "Who is God?" what is the best answer to give him?
- Question: What is the best way to convey to a child what God represents? Should we tell a child that God is love or omniscience or what?
A parent's guide to meditation
- Two purposes
- Meditation
- Starting out
- Spiritual exercises
- Preparing to meditate
- Proper breathing
- Concentration
- Conquering thoughts
- Meditating in the heart
Education and spirituality
- Just feel that I am yours
- Question: From the spiritual point of view, what is education?
- Question: What is the parents' responsibility for the formal education of the children?
- Question: How can the outer education and the inner education go hand in hand?
- Question: Were teachers better in the olden days?
- Question: Is it necessary for the parents, teacher and child to be spiritual friends when the child is learning in a particular class?
- Question: How do we know if we have too much education?
- Question: How can I best serve the Supreme in the children that I teach?
- Question: What should I meditate on before I enter a classroom to teach?
- Question: Is there a particular spiritual quality that we should invoke while teaching our children?
- Question: How can one teach meditation to young schoolchildren while still obeying the laws which say you can't teach religion?
- Question: How can a teacher know when to be compassionate and when to be a disciplinarian?
- Question: Do twins learn in the same way?
- Question: I am a student. How can I study and still keep God before me?
- Question: How can one see and feel beauty in one's school work?
Part Two: ... and for children
Why is God up in the sky? — Children's questions about God
- A child's question
- Question: What does God look like?
- Question: Why can't I see God inside me?
- Question: Why is it that I cannot see God?
- Question: How can I be with God?
- Question: How does God know everything about me?
- Question: How can I see God when I die? How can I see God when I'm alive?
- Question: Where does God live?
- Question: I can feel God in my heart, but how come I can't explain Him?
- Question: Why is God up in the sky and not on earth?
- Question: What is Heaven?
- Question: Am I going to God?
- Question: Will my mother go to Heaven when she dies?
- Question: Why did God create earth?
- Question: Why are my teachers in school always so mean?
- Question: Can I go live with God instead of with my mother and father?
- Question: How was the first man born on earth?
- Question: On the path to God, what is purity and what is realisation?
- Question: Why isn't God a human being like us?
- Question: Why is it that some people see light and others don't?
- Question: Why is it that I feel a difference between everyone else and my closest friend, God?
- Question: How can I be a good girl?
- Question: Who does God love the most?
- Question: If someone does something bad and undivine, does God punish them or do they bring things on themselves?
- Question: Guru, if the Supreme is in everything, then He must also be in the mind. So why is the mind bad?
