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Namah Pre-natal consciousness and care

connects to purpose and understands the truly that her consciousness is the first
importance of making informed and spiritual crucible within which the consciousness of
choices. It would be highly beneficial if she the child develops that she brings in a joyous
moves out of the ambit of limiting and discipline to her practices in caring for the
atavistic beliefs, ushers in an expansiveness child and remaining vigilant.
and nurtures her growing soul in the light of
a vastness of possibilities. The mother must be Skills and integration
conscious not to be receptive to any messages Once one gets established in one’s true identity,
or preconditioned notions that might prove there comes an openness and receptivity to
toxic to the well-being of her child. Holding acquire and integrate whatever skills in terms of
onto and nurturing ideas that a baby’s fine-tuning the mental, physical and emotional
looks or complexion must conform to what aspects of being by building calmness and
others consider to be ideal throws an unkind resilience, letting go of restricting attitudes
and toxic shadow on the beauty of the inner or behaviour and be able to organise the
landscape in which the baby develops. Gender thought-currents in sync with intention.
preferences too are subtle ways of imposing
a violence of conviction that robs the inner The mother must commit herself to practice
environment of its beauty and generosity mindfulness in thought, words and action,
of inclusiveness. Care in its unalloyed form which consolidate into beautiful living
must embrace unconditionality. moments and this integrality would usher
in a harmony conducive to the well-being of
Identity both. It is an evolutionary process where all
Understanding one’s role in terms of mother- life values come to be heightened, paving the
hood as a custodian of life, a soul in evolution way for rolling out a map of care.
and what it entails in terms of responsibilities
in the light of conscious parenting, especially The concept of essentials in an offering
at the pre-natal stage is very crucial. What
touches the mother through vibration touches There is a beautiful expression that expounds
the baby in the womb... experiences, joy, the beauty of purity in the act of offering
stress, delight, anxiety, nurturance…. food to the Divine in a spirit of consecration.
It lists three essentials: that is, ‘paatrassuddhi,
Understanding her role and identity from a (purity of the vessel — the physical),
deep perspective initiates her to build up the padaarthassuddhi (purity of the ingredients
skills, fortitude, resilience and attitude that — the mental) and bharrassuddhi (purity
are required for integration. and beauty of attitude — the vital). We
have used this analogy to underline the
Seen in the light of Sri Aurobindo and Mother’s importance of these three aspects in pre-
view of motherhood, it would be the greatest natal care.
gesture on the part of the mother if she were
to understand the potency of the water droplet Widening the horizon of care
that can transform into a pearl and her role in
nurturing it. It is only when she acknowledges By widening the horizon of perspectives, the

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