Children are beautiful and everything beautiful is a blessing. Each one of them is so uniquely and beautifully sculptured that there surely is a inherent divinity behind their birth and purpose.

Innocence apart many children also have an inherent mental, emotional and spiritual makeup and until and unless we don't aspire for the same innocence and beauty we can not appreciate and understand them.

Now a days we often hear parents complaining, "Oh, we didn't want to have a child but it happened by accident." I feel sad when I hear this! Can anything beautiful be an accident? Is it that all of us are accidents? No wonder many of us feel unwanted and unloved.

If a woman is not able to accept pregnancy and is forced to deliver the child, the child will throughout his life feel unwanted, until and unless he/she sees light at some end. Imagine how many children come into the world like this.

The Indian rishis have given lot of insights on child bearing and child rearing. When one aspires for a beautiful child and conceives a child with this awareness, the child will undoubtedly have the qualities aspired for by the parents.

Let us take this example. When we are intensely looking for Krishna, we find Krishna in everything. The animals, flowers, rivers and people will become Krishna because we aspire for Krishna. If we don't doubt our feelings the entire universe will come together to fulfill our aspiration and the same can happen when we decide to have a child because we really want to.

Now a days "Child is a blessing of God" is merely used to clarify to others and to oneself the birth of an unwanted child. There are others who have made it into a slogan to convince couples to have more children. The result is that most of us have nothing beautiful to share with our children. We will not have the time, understanding and nor even the inclination to grow along with them.

Every aspect of life is a blessing if we are aware about its importance in our life. We are what we aspire for and every things in life revolves around our aspiration. Children are surely a blessing but are we also a blessing for them?

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