14/11/2025
They displayed all the qualities of sincerity, frankness, non-attachment, universality, forgiveness, truthfulness, calmness, sweetness, laughter, and freedom from worry of a child—minus the latter’s ignorance.
Like the good child who is unaware of his goodness, the devotee who is absorbed in the beauty of God is unaware of his own divine qualities. Just as a child lives happily and confidently secure in the protecting power of parents, so also does the devotee, by becoming a divine child, relinquish all fear and depend completely on the all-protecting power of God.
By contrast, the person who does not cultivate the childlike qualities latent in the souls constantly tortured by self-shyness, worries, fear, and attachments, which drown his peace in an ocean of misery.
Before our Heavenly Father we should be like little children. He doesn’t want prayers that are chiseled to perfection. He wants us to love Him in all simplicity, just like children.
PARAMHANSA YOGANANDA
