Spiritual Knowledge And Its Importance In Moulding Child’s Psyche: A Study In Support Of The Mahabharata

Abstract

The development of a child is decided by the experiences that he/she retains from the very moment of breathing life in mother’s womb. Though an appropriate upbringing of a child along with the education given are the keys to a its growth, in framing its future, the before birth environs, and the overall surroundings where the fetus has slowly developed into a physically well-structured whole are need not be overlooked. Instances are evident in ancient scriptures to establish this claim as a sensible one. No one is oblivion of the tale of ‘Prahalad’, the son of Asur king Hiranyakasipu. Though Hiranyakasipu was an atheist and despised Vishnu, the lord, Prahalad his son stood complete opposite to him in showering his devotion to Vishnu by claiming him as everyone’s saviour and started chanting his name in every moment. This saintly apparatus of Prahalad is subjected to his fortune of listening to many tales of the mighty Vishnu from Narad Muni, when he was in his mother’s womb. Examples are not limited to Prahalad, another character named ‘Ashtabakra’ is found to be mentioned in Mahabharata, who furnished himself with almost all the knowledges of Shastra, spirituality and logic by listening to the reading of religious scriptures by his father from his mother’s womb. By keeping view on the development of mental and cognitive features of the children in support of literary scripture Mahabharata, thus the study facilitates a qualitative study based on available primary sources as well as other collected secondary data. 

In structuring the cognitive of a child, ethical knowledge, knowledge of spirituality, of morality and of behaviourism are undeniable, lack of which may result into a mere human stripped off humanly attitude. In today’s scenario, annihilation of humanly attributes is visible everywhere, but very few measures have been adopted to mitigate the issue from its root. The necessity of writing this paper is to bring out the significance of the spiritual knowledge in a child’s life that eventually forbids him to be away from the path of vice and not to be morally stooped.