Innocence and Kindness
- ChayaPuthran
- Jun 22
- 8 min read

When I took my little child for an evening stroll, I had no idea I was about to listen and witness the language of God.
When we started to walk, we were followed by all the wonderful creatures of God. Cows, Rabbits, Peacocks, Parrots, Dogs, and Other Birds, Flower petals floated in the air and reached my little kid's tiny hands that was wearing the world's softest rubber bangles, the rubber's texture was such that it was softer than the veins of the baby leaves. There was this divine scent in the air it was the scent of sandalwood and rose petals mixed together that filled the surroundings. My Heart was filled with pure joy that I have never felt in my life before. My kid was smiling at all these creatures and they were all making sounds and acknowledging her smile.
As we walked deeper into this enchanted world...
My child pointed her tiny little finger towards a pond, I took her there, there were Doves, fishes, Dolphins that rushed towards us and they were all dancing in pure joy. My little kid started to smile and wave hands at them. The whole pond was so vibrant and alive, they were all putting up a show for my little daughter who was actually doing an orchestration of their dances with her little fingers and enjoying their performances. Yet, amidst all the joyfulness the whole environment was calm.
I have known Innocence and kindness before but this time it was in it's purest form I was literally seeing them float before my eyes this was the first time. I realized at that moment, if Innocence and Kindness had a form of their own, it is my little kid.
But the revelations were far from over...
My child talked to cows, doves, rabbits and birds and to even the leaves and plants and they talked to her back, they smile at her and she smiles at them, but for me I didn't understand their language because I have lost the Innocence and Kindness that my child holds with her.
My child talked to water drops that came out of the pond, when they splash on the ground they were playing with her, she jumps in joy when the water drops splash on the ground. I don't understand their game as I have lost the Innocence and Kindness that flows so naturally through my child.
Each moment seemed to unfold a deeper mystery...
My child sees a butterfly and she smiles and makes so much of joyful sounds that even the best symphony can never compete with. I took a little kaleidoscope with me, whenever she saw the butterfly her tiny little fingers pointed to the kaleidoscope. I didn't understand why see did that. Then I realized slowly and very slowly that she sees butterflies in kaleidoscope, she thinks they both are one and same, she thinks the butterflies are residing inside the kaleidoscope. She tries to reach to the butterflies in the kaleidoscope. All this started to make sense to me when a butterfly flew through the kaleidoscope, I was not sure what just happened, it might be for me to understand what is happening. Because I have lost the Innocence and Kindness that radiates from my child's purest heart.
Now comes my Child's Arc,

My child saw the umbrella that I took with me and thought that is her own little house with a roof and she is able to touch the roof and she calls the creatures to come and stay in her house and all these creatures are rushing in as if that was the Noah's Arc. Now when I fold the umbrella, she wants me to open it so that she can go and sit inside the umbrella, her own house with all these creatures. I was trying to push the creatures away which my kid politely stopped as I have lost the Innocence and Kindness that my child carries like divine light.
My child saw a peacock and smiled at her, the peacock responded back in joy by opening it's feathers, I don't know what was happening at all. The peacock left after a while, my child was still smiling, I was worried that my child wanted to play with the bird more, so I went to the place where the peacock stood and found a small peacock feather there and I took it with me and gave it to my child, she started to cry looking at the feather. I did not understand first why she was crying, then I realized that she was crying because she felt that how much painful it should be for the peacock to lose that feather, then I took the feather away from her sight and placed it in the same place where I found it. I could not understand the kindness and compassion that was flowing through my child towards the peacock. I couldn't even imagine the level of Innocence and Kindness that shines through my child.
My little kid now started to focus on the sun light that danced before her through the leaves of the plants. I started to admire how my child was joyful looking at the dancing sun rays. She was seeing through the light and finding many tiny living creatures in the light, she was actually seeing the leaves finishing their dinner through the sun light and those leaves were inviting her to join the dinner with them. The sun rays and the plants and leaves were thanking my little child to have come and visited their place for dinner as they emitted smile through the light rays at her. This is for me again, Innocence and Kindness visible to my eyes floating in thin air.
My child saw some spilled crystals of sugar that some ants where trying to carry, my child was watching their efforts in awe, I saw this and suddenly took my child away from that place, but the ants were not meaning any harm to her, in fact I only knew they were also smiling at her when my kid smiled at them back as the ants carry their work. My kid was trying to hum a song with the ants as they were singing along while they did the work, I could know this only though the eyes of my child. The universal force connected them all together by the Innocence and Kindness and compassion that my child emits.
My child saw a fallen Guava fruit on the ground and she wanted me to take that and give it to her, it was already half eaten by a squirrel. I told her that I will buy her a fresh fruit, she did not have any interest in any of my words, she was only looking at the fallen fruit. So I took it and gave it to her after cleaning it. She smiled at it and looked at me and made me carry that fruit, I did not know why she wanted me to do that, but I did that, after a while there was a fruit vendor who was selling Apples, Guavas and Oranges, she smiled at him and made me take her to him. He was joyfully captured by the smile of my child and was asking my child what fruit she wants. She pointed at the Guava fruit that I was carrying with me, I took it and the seller was surprised to see that fruit, it was the same fruit that he threw off earlier it seems, a squirrel was eating it from his cart earlier, looking at that, he chased the squirrel away and also threw the fruit away. My child wanted to hand over that fruit to him, he reluctantly took it and looked around, he did not know what to do with that, my child pointed at a bush nearby. The squirrel was waiting in the bush, we were surprised to look at the squirrel, the vendor politely went near the bush and placed the fruit near the bush, the squirrel happily took it and ran into the bush, my child laughed loudly in pure joy for a moment. I wondered is this my Child's laughing sound or did I hear the sound of my kaleidoscope?, I and the vendor did not know what happened at that moment, we were speechless. Is this some intuition that happens only for those with Innocence and Kindness? I and the fruit vendor have lost it already, so we could only see that as some magic that happened before our eyes but could not comprehend it more.
I took my little child to the temple, as she was under 1 year they volunteered to take my child and place her on my Lord Vinayagar's lap who was all dressed up in Golden robes and ready to see my little child, who was none other than his own incarnation, she smiled at my lord and they both for moment appeared to be talking to each other, it occurred to me that my lord was smiling at my child and there was a Rose flower that fell from my lord's crown on my little kid and there were bells and drums surrounding that place the moment all this happened. I did not realize I was carrying the universal divinity in my hands so long till that moment as I do not have the Innocence and Kindness that child holds with her. I realized it only when I connected the divine scent that reached me way before I came to the temple, my lord was decorated with sandal wood paste and Rose flowers around him, the smell of Sandal and Rose petals reached me long before I came to the temple.
Now, when we are returning to home back from this evening adventure it started to drizzle I opened the Umbrella and started to rush home, that moment there was this old lady on the road side who was already shivering, my little child pointed her tiny fingers towards her. I saw the lady, now my child touched the umbrella, I realized my kid wanted me to hand over the Umbrella to that old lady, I hesitated but my little kid insisted me through a delicate look in her eyes, next moment I handed the lady the Umbrella and started running to my home by covering my child in a towel I had with me, my own Mother, my little kid's Grandmother, was waiting outside anxiously but my kid was playing with the tiny rain drops that came far from the sky, she was smiling at them as she already knew them before and these drops were so friendly, they came all the way from the sky and when they were about to be dropped on my child's tiny little hand they slowed down their pace so drastically and they fell on my little kid as if they were just a breeze. When I saw that happen before my eyes I was stunned how kindness was being responded back with kindness even in the form of a rain drop., my kid knowing and understanding all this was smiling at the drops and waved hands at me as my Mother took my child from me and took her inside the home.
I was only surprised and stood their in awe thinking is this what Innocence and Kindness is? How am I going to protect this around my child? because I don't have this with me or I have lost it and I should not steal that away from my child, I prayed God to help me give the capacity to understand this enormous kindness and Innocence that I witnessed through the evening. I just Stood there in the rain, I realized I hadn't just taken my child for a walk - my child had taken me on a trip to show what this Universe is Originally made of pure joy, which is a by product of pure Innocence, Kindness and Compassion and made me realize all that I see is only Illusion and my little kid pointed to me what are the actual ingredients of this whole Universe. How did I suddenly become so deserving of all such good things? What is the miracle that happened around me? It was none other than my little kid. A blessing from my lord which I never imagined. Gob bless my Child!!!

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