A magical being

I have been blessed with a magical being.

In normal language, blessed with a baby girl.

I see her as a magical being - who appeared from nothing, into this world, into this body. We have given a name to this magical unknown infinite being - Chaytanya Shree (meaning Supreme Godly Consciousness).

Seeing her, being with her, I feel utterly surprised as to...how pure, how trusting, how joyful, how playful, how natural, how simple and yet infinite - she is God-like. 

She is joyful without having any materialistic or spiritual object. 

She is totally receptive and trusting - with all the possibilities of harm from the surrounding people

She is totally natural with no differences of good or bad, with no conditioning.

She is everything that I ever want to be through all my spiritual pursuits. She is in a state that most humans seek...a state of consistent peace, trust, joy. The most surprising thing is that 'I' was also like her, and all of us were born the same, and yet no one seems to be like her. 

As adults, we somehow lose our original face and spend our lives seeking to discover it. And still, as adults we pretend to know what is best for this new life, and no sooner that the baby is born, and we are all ready to teach her.

Khalil Gibran has said - "

Your children are not your children.

They are the sons and daughters of life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you.
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts.
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls.
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
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You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you."

We feel that children belong to us, she is mine - and with this feeling of  'mine', we sow seeds of pain and darkness in our lives and in the life of this new one. 

Chaytanya is not mine or ours. We have just been a medium for her to enter into this world. We can love, respect, nourish and support her in fulfilling her destiny, but we don't want to teach her or make her into a copy of ours. 

I don't know anything that I can give to this baby except love and respect, but I really seek to learn from her all that she is. Through her, I wish to discover my original face, the one I was born with.