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“My very precious children, let us speak further about the language and qualities of the child. My precious children, when a baby emerges from its mother, it cries, “Amma, Amma!” That sound gladdens the mother’s heart and brings joy to all those nearby. Isn’t it a sound which makes everyone want to pick up the child and kiss it? Isn’t it a sound which makes everyone happy? Does it make people cry? Certainly not. In fact, the same kind of sound is also made by sheep, by cows, and by many other animals. No matter what language you speak, that sound brings coolness, comfort, and gladness to the heart. Even though a mother may suffer and scream in pain and torment, even though she may come close to death when giving birth, as soon as she hears the sound of the baby’s cry, she is soothed, she forgets all her pain, and her heart is comforted. She lifts the child to her heart, embraces it, and kisses it as soon as she hears that sound. “In just the same way God is both our Father and our Mother. How much pain He suffers to delivers us from this world of ignorance, from this world of sin, this world of karma, this world of anger! He carries all our burdens for us, and He shares all our suffering and torment in this world. He shares our pain and suffers the burden of carrying us. When we emerge from this world of the five elements, the world of desire, mind, karma, anger, jealousy, and arrogance which all try to swallow us, if we say, “Amma,” or, “My Father, my God!” that sound immediately soothes Him. It brings coolness and comfort, not only to God, our Father, but to all living creatures. They want to gather us to their hearts, to kiss and embrace us. Even if we have committed so many faults, so many sins, and caused so much suffering, even if we live forgetting our Father who is God, even if we despise God, even if we deny the existence of God, even if we scold God, see how tolerant He is. He continues to do His duty no matter what we do. Even though our parents may forget us, God comes to help and protect us, no matter where we are. We must understand how God protects us. If we understand that, we will know how He lives with us, always helping and protecting us. We will realize ourselves and Him. “My very precious children, a newborn child speaks so many languages, but it is not understood by its mother or father or even by those who are profoundly learned. The little ones speak millions of languages—the language of the crane, the dog, the cat, the monkey, the languages of man—yet the only ones who can understand are other babies. In the first year and a half of life, an infant runs the gamut of all languages and sounds. The monkey is inside, man is inside, the entire world is there inside the baby. It speaks the language of jinns, fairies, angels, gnanis, and the language of God. It speaks every language, even the rustling of the ant, the buzzing of the mosquito, and the humming of the bees. The baby speaks all their languages and is a friend to every creature—the birds are its friends and it plays happily with them, even the snake is its friend. This universal language makes the baby everyone’s friend. It has no prejudice and it makes no distinctions of color or whatever. “No matter where we take a baby, it knows the language of God. Others many not comprehend, but God understands. God hears the baby’s voice, and every voice that floats on the wind is understood by the baby. Unity understands, compassion understands, the child understands, and all other beings understand these languages. Man alone does not understand. Why is that? Because man has changed. Man has forgotten the language the others haven’t. “If two babies are brought together, they speak to each other; they make some kind of noise. They understand each other and become friends. No matter what part of the world they may come from, the two of them will start to play together. They become friends no matter what color they may be. Bring a baby from the east and leave it with a baby from the west, and they will talk in their common language; bring another baby from the north or the south, and they will speak their common language. The baby understands every possible language because it understands unity, peace, happiness, and joy. That language is understood by the baby alone. It does not speak the temporary languages of the world which human beings have learned; instead it knows all the original languages and speaks with joy and happiness, without sorrow or suffering. All its languages bring unity and happiness, and the baby lives in and enjoys that unity. “Because the baby knows the language of every living creature, it can speak to any life that comes near it. The baby even has a language to converse with God. Even if we have learned all the languages of the world, if we want to converse with God we must become a baby and learn the original language, the original words, the original unity, peace, and equality, the language we spoke when we were born, the language which the world cannot recognize. We can speak to God with this language but our mothers and fathers will not understand it; religions, racial prejudice, philosophies, scriptures, and literature will not comprehend. That language will not be understood by any knowledge that has been nurtured in the world. The world will look upon us as dreaming, blind men who cannot describe what they see. The language we spoke when we were babies is understood only by our Father who is God and by those who live in peace and equality. “When we speak this language, when we discover that equality, that peace, that justice, that unity, and that exalted state, when we are like babies, when we live as little children and behave as little children, what do we find? We find peace and tranquility. We find the unity and love which embraces everyone. We may totter and fall while embracing each other, but we will do so in unity and love. This is the quality of our play as God’s children—we play with Him, and He understands our language, our speech, and our wisdom. This is the language we can use to converse with God, our Father. These are the qualities we must have to live in His kingdom. This is His speech. These are His qualities, and this is the state in which He lives. We must acquire that state in this world. We must embrace all lives as our own life and look after every living creature as we look after ourselves, as does the baby who hands some of its food to another child or even takes food from its own mouth to give it to another. Just as babies live with these qualities in that state, we too can live with our Father if we have these qualities. This is the language He understands, this is the love He understands, this is the justice and the judgment He knows. If we have these qualities, we will understand the language we need to converse with Him. “My very precious children, that is what we call being a baby, being a little child. My very precious children, we must learn this language and acquire the good qualities and the happiness of this language. We must understand the clarity, the meaning, and the peace of this language. My precious children, the state we call infancy is a state in which we try to reach God’s state, try to learn everything from God, to acquire the qualities of God, to be one with God, and to know ourselves.” Copyright: A Book of God’s Love. P. 81-88. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen Fellowship Family Newsletter July – August 1999
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