The Teaching of Hazrat Inayat Khan

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Furthermore, when the infant is beginning to utter sounds, such as ha, pa, ma, boo, goo, one should not take it as something unimportant or something which has no meaning; one must realize that each such sound is a new lesson that an infant has learnt from the world, and one should give that word great importance, because it is the first word and that is a divine word. The best way of training an infant to learn the meaning of these words and sounds is to repeat with it the same sounds, to let the child hear the same word over and over again, and become interested in what it is saying; and then to attract its attention to objects and persons of that name. It is in this way that the words ma and pa have come into being. It is not that someone else has given these names; the infant has given them to its father and mother. Others have added to those words and made them mater, mader, mother, but it began with ma and pa. It is a natural word, it has come from the depth of the mind of the infant; it is a divine word. Its origin is a divine origin.


 
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