The entire art and literature of India is moulded in the beauty and divinity of Bhagavat. From childhood onwards the Hindu heart is taught to beat in unison with the tenth-chapter here, which narrates the childhood stories of Lord Krishna. He is the one solitary symbol that generated and sustained the spiritual ideal in the heart of the children and appealed to the head of the elders. The learned and the erudite reveled in the depth of the philosophy, packed away in all the serious discussions and talks that happen all along this glorious work of Vyasa. However, the devoted young hearts of the children loved the stories of Krishna’s early child-hood, full of pranks and mischief’s, meaningful adventures, and purposeful jokes. He soon throws, upon the growing children, a divine light of blue-and-yellow, and all their life they grow to be fascinated with this ideal. These stories of Bala-Bhagavatam are to be read out by the parents themselves to their children. This must be done in an atmosphare of religious inspiration. Even if we are not able to arrange a complete Altar, at least let us keep a picture of Baby-Krishna on a table nearby, and let us decorate it with flowers, and light up a joss-stick (Agarbathi) in humble reverence and devoted respect to the Lord.
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