I
am truly blessed to have been meeting really wonderful souls as my journey
continues. And a few months back, I met a wonderful friend, Lissa and through
her I had the opportunity to know about her little sister Tara. Tara, a
lovely 12 year old beautiful soul, left this world on 10th March 2014
but is still spiritually connected to all of us. This amazing soul
left behind a treasure cove of wonderful metaphysical and thought
provoking writings at such a young age. The Universe feels like a safe and
wonderful place to be in because pure beings like her are still a part of it.
And she shows the proof of her eternal existence through her lovely poems which
she left behind for her loved ones and the rest of the world.
Through
some of her metaphysical writings, Tara, a little 12 year old girl displays a
lingering memory of our true identity, that we are not just the bodies and the
physical form that we appear to be in. And she expressed it beautifully through
her thoughts and feelings. Her lovely thought provoking poems simply amaze me.
Makes me wonder, if a 12 year old child can be true to her feelings why can’t we
all be. And she seems to keep inspiring us all in multiple ways….
Tara
is a true example of our delightful children who have come down here with a
mission to make this world a better place. They are wonderful, sensitive beings
who possess many special unique talents and are gifted in their own way. The
eternal question “Who am I?” which haunts us all throughout our lives is
arising in their minds at a very young age.
Perhaps,
because they have not yet forgotten the reality of who we really are. But many
children these days get misunderstood because of lack of spiritual awareness of parents.
In the name of “focus” we teach our children to repress all such beautiful
wonderings that come to the minds of little children naturally. Many of the
children are very spiritually aware and are highly evolved souls and have many
questions regarding God, heaven, hell, good, bad and everything else under the
sun. Sometimes, they even have answers that we ourselves are seeking. The real
question is, are we prepared for them? Or are we so “intelligent” and practical
that have we never “wasted” any time thinking about all this “stuff” in our own
lives?
Tara’s
words in her poem …Who am I?
Who am I? Am I a human?
Am I an animal? Am I a soul?
Or just a body?
But though now I lie in this bed,
One day I will be on my own feet
running and all of my dreams will come true.
But I still have to find who I
am…..
In
the above poem, this little 12 year old girl feels the need to find who out she
truly is and knows there is much more to her than what simply appears to be. Have we tried to really find who we are? All souls are beautiful and
pure when they come down and are full of such wonderings before they get polluted by our limited
conditioning.
And
as a mother of a boy, it also makes me wonder, would we have been so accepting
of our little boys too? A boy writing metaphysical poetry! That’s all fine, but
he has to be focused, strong and aggressive to “do” something “real” in life,
right? We probably would have even secretly worried a bit about him.
Imagine
this very familiar scene, A bunch of little boys are playing in the playground and somehow
the ones who are most aggressive, loud, dominating and wanting to control everything
will always be labelled as a potential “leader” material by some
observer. And to be nice, nobody around defies this label given to such boys.
But you think the other boys are not listening and learning from this?
Ofcourse, they are. So what has happened here? Firstly, the aggressive boy’s
behaviour gets encouraged and secondly, silently the other boys have learnt
that this is what one has to do to be a leader. Leader? Really? Leader of what?
And where will such a leader lead us to? Seems like not a very nice place to
me.
A
boy writing metaphysical poems would probably be seen as an aberration and a
cause of concern for his parents. There seems to be no apparent place in today’s world
for thought leadership or so we think and hence end up inculcating wrong values. And where did this all imbalance start?
At that playground… when nobody taught fairness, the importance of being kind,
compassionate and caring towards one’s own friends to these little boys. How
many of us would come back home and openly name and discuss these control
dramas which people knowingly/unknowingly play and how each unique child can
handle these situations without emulating another child? How many of us put our
energies and thoughts in this direction?
And
then we watch the television and complain about crime against women and
innocent people and feel horrible about these same grown boys….. But where did
this all start? Where did they learn that aggression and manipulation is what
gets you things? At that playground, when some parent thoughtlessly tried to show off
their leadership assessment skills….and others were too “nice” and kept quiet or
discuss this uncomfortable situation openly with their children.
Children
are just pure children. We are the ones who begin slotting them in gender roles and fixed
templates. We forget the importance of letting them grow as holistic people and not just as boys or girls. The path of self-actualisation requires us to
balance our masculine and feminine energies and not supress either of them.
It’s important to encourage sensitivity, kindness, creativity, responsibility,
co-operation and assertiveness in all humans…both girls and boys equally.
Yes,
we all are worried about the future and the careers of our children in today’s
competitive world. But thinking from a scarcity mentality won’t get us
anywhere. If we just allow our children to be who they are and help them in
exploring and honing their various unique talents, then they will develop high
self esteem, and will love to put in the required hours to master their talents
willingly and then eventually be successful and fulfilled in their life. It is us parents who
are not aware enough and hence have a very closed view of careers and life
which we pass on to our children. Just to give a simple example, if our child
likes music then our closed mind only imagines him playing in a rock band or a
classical concert and we discourage him to go ahead with it as a career. We
never imagine that maybe this child will open music schools countrywide or will
make music education accessible to everyone or teach a better way of learning
music to the coming generations or combine his love of music, maths and science and
come up with something totally new. It is our limited imagination and awareness
which makes us worry and transfer our insecurities to them and want them to be
a certain way and grow up in a certain fixed template. Imagine billions and
billions of children growing up in a few fixed set templates about life.
Really?
To
me personally, Jonathan Livingstone Seagul is one of the best books that you
can read to your child and help them celebrate who they really are and how only
by truly being who they are, will they shine and end up finding their “own”
tribe.
Tara
is a beautiful example of our wonderful children who are immensely wise,
unique, thoughtful and talented. It is us parents who need to realise and
remember this sacred responsibility that we undertook. We need to be more aware
and be open to their unique talents and to the idea that they may end up being
teachers, healers, writers, artists, musicians, sportsmen or take up
careers and life paths which our little minds cannot even imagine at this point in time.
Also
Tara’s writings and her thoughts inspire us adults in a way, that we don’t need
to “Be” something to write out our pure thoughts and wonderings. She truthfully
wrote what she had to because she was connected to her Source and her intuitive
wisdom. And aren’t we all? She was not worried who will publish her material, who will read it and who will like it? She just simply wrote. She just simply was, who she was and hence inspiring us
all to “Just Be” who we are....
I
AM that I AM…..and that’s enough….
