Again we will come back to the types of personalities. It is very important to understand that character of a personality is almost impossible to change. If person has qualities of a learned person then he will remain so till the end of his life. If person is having qualities of a manager, or a business man or a worker again will remain as such till the end of his life. People who try to change the character of a person arein ignorance. People who do not want to understand the type of a person also are in passion and ignorance. For example, person thinks: “my son should become a great mathematic” or “he should become as like me – engineer” or else something else. Which means father is not interested in child’s inclinations. He should learn how to play piano from me, he should learn business in college, he should go to some religious groups etc. That is all! And no more options. In this case person breaks down and he won’t have desire to do something. Because he is still small he has does not have enough intelligence to make independent decisions or else to prove his own visions and starts to become naughty.

He says that he does not like it. Father says ‘you are a simple lazy man, you just go and do!’ In this way person breaks down right from childhood.

On the other hand Vedic system gives much importance to inclinations of a kid and gives much attention to that right from childhood. For example, as a holiday there is one ritual. When child is 1-3 years of age they put items like book, money, some tool for practical work and some guns or similar military items in four directions. These things have their own special, subtle energies which they collect according to their usage in life. Children in this age accept such things unconsciously pure with intuition. They do not understand what this object is and what for to use it. But there is understanding that this item is very dear to him. Which means child won’t be thinking which book to read but he simple knows that this is that thing which he needs. He feels that there is something hidden in this item, very deep meaning. Such feelings happen because of some experiences from previous lives; from collected desires in contact with this item in previous lives.  This attachment is called as taste, inclination for some particular thing. Ritual is done in the next form: Items are kept enough far from each other so that child won’t be able to catch both the items at a time. They keep child among those items and give chance to select one of those items. He will start to circumambulate or else will crawl immediately to one side but will select something for himself. According to the object one will recognize a type of a personality. This can be repeated several times but the result will be the same. This means person will be inclined to perform some particular work. When parents learned the inclinations they start to learn them. For example, child chose hammer In this case person will be inclined to do some practical physical work. When parents buy for him designer to learn letters in order to read and write child will start to learn the designer itself on the place of letters. Or else brother wants to play with him a war but he prefers tinkering.

Or else child chose a gun, and do not feed him with chapatti but give war to play. He loves to command over his peers or fight with them. Or else child showed desire to learn letters, loves to hear, read etc.

This means, personality builds up according to his inclinations. And parents see that they were not wrong, they see that child is progressing in the needed field. And they plan to give to him good education.     

Translated from Russian book written by Devotees.