Each person is the mirror of the soul encapsulated in his/her body. A child's soul speaks its pure native language. There are rare cases where souls remain monolingual; most of them learn foreign languages and become polyglot as their hosts (human bodies) grow and expand their repertoires of experience through interactions with other types of soul.
When we see a child talk and behave, we know instantly the native language of its soul. For example, when I saw one of my nephews for the first time when he was three years old, I said spontaneously that he was not a child. Seeing my brother's questioning eyes, I said that he was a man of noble character (in Korean it is a single word, not a compound noun or phrase). My brother has often been reminded of my words since then. For example, when his younger brother knocked him down, he embraced him, still crying for pain, to protect him from my brother's angry reaction.
Such language of soul is called innate nature. Such inborn nature is the direct expression of each soul. It has nothing to do with environment and inheritance. Totally different behavioral tendencies among siblings are a vivid evidence of this view. Let me illustrate it with the example of my niece, four years older than my nephew with a noble soul. Her soul is as devilish as her brother's soul is angelic. She cannot bear to see others profit from her (helping others is hence out of the question). When I was witnessing that she wouldn't allow her father to eat what she could not finish, he told me an episode that consolidated my perception of her native language: when she was three years old, she stuck her fingers in his mouth, yelling and crying, to scratch out the sausage, which she had left for garbage, from his mouth.
Some of you, who follow my blog, may remember Triguna and Da-Da-Da. We all have these three characters represented by the angelic (sattvic), human (rajasic), and demonic (tamasic) children of God, in most cases mixed, with one of them predominant. The cases shown by my nephew and niece are rather rare. Their souls are likely to remain monolingual throughout their lives. And they will never fully understand each other's language because of their monolinguality. Their two brothers, now 8 and 12 years old, are examples of the typical human child of God. Their souls are already at least bilingual and will turn out to be multilingual by the time they have reached their adult heights.
When a tamasic person learns the language of a sattvic person, it does not come from his/her own nature. Such a foreign language is inevitably hypocritical, and is often forgotten in critical situations where the hypocrisy can no longer be sustained because of lacking or contradictory action, i.e., in situations where the mask should be taken off. This also explains the weird phenomenon that religious people are often perceived as being "worse" than non-religious people. Most religions preach mercy and justice, and it's alright if sattvic people embrace such teaching because mercy and justice are vocabulary of their own native language. But rajasic or tamasic people should speak and act as if they mastered the sattvic language of love and peace while their own nature is egoistic or belligerent. Speaking from my experiences again, only two persons deliberately tried to harm me in my life (yes, I am very lucky), and both are pastors. By the way, their acts of bad intention turned out to be great blessings for me. And if they knew that I ended up profiting from the consequences of their tamasic acts, they would say that their real intention was to help me.
When we see a child talk and behave, we know instantly the native language of its soul. For example, when I saw one of my nephews for the first time when he was three years old, I said spontaneously that he was not a child. Seeing my brother's questioning eyes, I said that he was a man of noble character (in Korean it is a single word, not a compound noun or phrase). My brother has often been reminded of my words since then. For example, when his younger brother knocked him down, he embraced him, still crying for pain, to protect him from my brother's angry reaction.
Such language of soul is called innate nature. Such inborn nature is the direct expression of each soul. It has nothing to do with environment and inheritance. Totally different behavioral tendencies among siblings are a vivid evidence of this view. Let me illustrate it with the example of my niece, four years older than my nephew with a noble soul. Her soul is as devilish as her brother's soul is angelic. She cannot bear to see others profit from her (helping others is hence out of the question). When I was witnessing that she wouldn't allow her father to eat what she could not finish, he told me an episode that consolidated my perception of her native language: when she was three years old, she stuck her fingers in his mouth, yelling and crying, to scratch out the sausage, which she had left for garbage, from his mouth.
Some of you, who follow my blog, may remember Triguna and Da-Da-Da. We all have these three characters represented by the angelic (sattvic), human (rajasic), and demonic (tamasic) children of God, in most cases mixed, with one of them predominant. The cases shown by my nephew and niece are rather rare. Their souls are likely to remain monolingual throughout their lives. And they will never fully understand each other's language because of their monolinguality. Their two brothers, now 8 and 12 years old, are examples of the typical human child of God. Their souls are already at least bilingual and will turn out to be multilingual by the time they have reached their adult heights.
When a tamasic person learns the language of a sattvic person, it does not come from his/her own nature. Such a foreign language is inevitably hypocritical, and is often forgotten in critical situations where the hypocrisy can no longer be sustained because of lacking or contradictory action, i.e., in situations where the mask should be taken off. This also explains the weird phenomenon that religious people are often perceived as being "worse" than non-religious people. Most religions preach mercy and justice, and it's alright if sattvic people embrace such teaching because mercy and justice are vocabulary of their own native language. But rajasic or tamasic people should speak and act as if they mastered the sattvic language of love and peace while their own nature is egoistic or belligerent. Speaking from my experiences again, only two persons deliberately tried to harm me in my life (yes, I am very lucky), and both are pastors. By the way, their acts of bad intention turned out to be great blessings for me. And if they knew that I ended up profiting from the consequences of their tamasic acts, they would say that their real intention was to help me.
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