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the Ordinary Only then it is Authentic
10 December 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 7612105
ShortTitle: BLESSD07
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Chuang Tzu Auditorium, Poona, India
[A mother brings her five-day-old baby to take sannyas.]
Deva means divine, and seva means service; in the divine service. And the whole responsibility lies with you, because a child cannot take the responsibility of sannyas. So a few things to be remembered....
One is -- give her as much freedom as possible, because finally sannyas is absolute freedom, so give her the taste of freedom. Don't try to make her obedient. Allow her rebelliousness -- in fact, help her to be rebellious. If parents help their children to be rebellious, the world will be totally revolutionary. And that revolution will not be political. It will not be a revolution that happens once and then stops; it will be a permanent revolution -- because each generation will bring it again onto new altitudes of being and new spheres of consciousness. New spaces will always be opening.
Man has been killed because of obedience. Too much obedience means that you are poisoning the child. It is difficult for the parents to have a disobedient child, but the difficulty arises because you require obedience from the child. Once you allow it, suddenly there is no difficulty. You are happy because the child is disobedient. And because you are happy, the disobedience can never be des-tructive, because there is nothing for the child to react to.
The children become disobedient because you force obedience on them. So mediocre children surrender. If the child has some energy, some intelligence, he rebels. If you allow disobedience and the child lives in the climate of freedom, he will not disobey you. This is the paradox: if you force obedience, there is a possibility that he may disobey, or he may become dull -- both are dangerous.
If he becomes dull, he becomes dead. He will miss the whole of life. He will live in a sort of stupor. Or if he becomes reactive, and whatsoever you say, he denies, then too there is danger -- he may move
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