Avatar Adi Da Teaches children and young people how to be happy no matter what the apparent conditions. Avatar Adi Da Himself always demonstrated love and compassion in His interactions with young people and He never expected anything less from them than He did of adults: that they go beyond their egoic patterning by remembering to be love.
In tracks 1 and 2 of this unique compilation, Avatar Adi Da gives humorous and loving answers to questions from children and gives them Instructions that are personal and specific to their growth and understanding. However, adults will also find His Instructions—on relating to others, practicing loving, and being happy—to be profoundly useful.
Avatar Adi Da also says that when caring for children and young adults, caregivers should always nurture, and challenge young people to realize, “a breathing, feeling relationship to the universal power, the Divine personality of God”.
In the next track, “Grant Children Freedom and Responsibility”, Avatar Adi Da offers guidance in how to relate and serve children in the process of fully maturing and becoming a loving, balanced human being, capable of relating to others and to the Divine Itself.
Avatar Adi Da also describes that the child’s need for and heart-impulse to Liberation must always be respected and served. To this end, children need to progressively learn for real that the True Source of life, sustenance, and happiness is the Divine Itself, not the mortal parents.
In the last track, “A Child’s Guide to Happiness”, Avatar Adi Da masterfully describes the human experience in very simple terms, and how most of it does not “look happy”. He then expounds on what happiness really feels like and how it is actually our true nature before we do anything at all.
This CD is a companion to The First Three Stages of Life—which is a book of Avatar Adi Da’s Instructions on serving the right, true, and free development of children and young people and on completing the work of individuation, socialization, and integration for adults.
Listen to this CD for the first chance to hear Avatar Adi Da Recite “A Child’s Guide To Happiness” from The Happenine Book (recorded in 2006, but never-before published).
Track Listing
1. Smiling with Your Feet (1978) - 4:43
2. Remember The Mystery In Which You Live (1978) - 7:23
3. Grant Children Freedom and Responsibility, Part 1 (1978) - 9:56
4. Grant Children Freedom and Responsibility , Part 2 (1978) - 11:58
5. Grant Children Freedom and Responsibility, Part 3 (1978) - 14:25
6. A Child’s Guide to Happiness, The Happenine Book (2006) - 5:28
Total running time: 54 minutes
