When I work in Miami, I have long train rides every day to and from West Palm Beach. Therefore I have plenty of reading time. So far this week I have been able to get through about half of Gandhi an Autobiography – the Story of My Experiments with Truth.
On the trip home last night I came across a passage that sort of dovetails with my previous post on “Happy Food”. It is my contention the product of ones hand, illustrated as prepared food in a restaurant, is affected by the negative or positive energy of the producer.
The passage from Gandhi indicates his belief that one’s energy can have a much greater impact.
“The education of the child begins with conception. The physical and mental states of the parents at the moment of conception are reproduced in the baby. Then during the period of pregnancy it continues to be affected by the mother’s moods, desires and temperament as also by her way of life."
It is accepted that from birth to five years of age, children learn more than they will learn for the rest of their lives. Absorbing the atmosphere/energy of the home plays a very large role in that early learning. Now if we take Gandhi to heart, that education actually begins at the time of conception.
To quote Gandhi again from a later chapter…
“This instance to some extent serves to show what a terrible responsibility it
is to be a parent”
(The word terrible in this context I take to mean frightful or frightening and not something awful or very bad.)
2 comments:
I assume from prior posts that your focus here is on the "energy" or other greater force aspect rather than on the 'life begins at conception' part. Is that correct, or are you a 'right-to-lifer' ? Not that it matters to me...
I would have to say that I support a “Right-to-Life”, But that right comes without a guarantee.
Being Pro Life in no way links me to the “Anti-Abortion” movement. I firmly believe in women’s right to choose whether or not to have a child.
Life does not begin at conception.
Something that has no end can not have a beginning. Life is perpetual and transitory. Gestation is simply a state to which life has transitioned and from which it will transition again. Life is not guaranteed a tomorrow or even another moment other than the one we have right now.
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