Innocence versus ignorance

 Innocence versus ignorance 

They are not at all the same.

And….. I am not rich_enough in wisdom to extol the distinction comprehensively enough.😢 ( I said ‘extol’ because we say “ignorance is bliss”😰. Somehow, I couldn't reconcile with remaining ignorant 🙏)

Easy on brain, wala difference:

I was a kid 7 decades ago. I was both ignorant & innocent. 

Other kids around me, at neighbourhood, relatives, school…… why even in a train journey if ……. lasting more than an hour, become ‘friends’ with me.

The joke is, only about 2% of my kid age friends are “still  my-friends”😰. ( It doesn't matter to me, if ‘i am a friend to few more others!’ that's their choice. My_friends treat me likewise, and I am happy with that👍)

I thought over it.

Despite ignorance, innocence begets friendship. It's like a water-tap without any filter gadget fixed at its mouth 😳 

As I aged, my preferences, choices, NARROWED (filter became OPERATIONAL 😜).  My greed, unrealistic desires, and exclusivity ( as an opposite of ‘inclusiveness’)  played mischief by allowing a ‘leak’ in my filters and I paid its price when my tiny wisdom BECAME affordable to do away with such unfiltered friends)

Ignorance….

gets dispelled at various levels 🙏

The examples that I can think of, 🙏 are

1) sensory levels ( I don't touch a live wire after getting a mild shock. I don't sip a drink while the steam is still seen—got my lips burnt due to ignorance 😜)

2)brain as a processor ( when I didn't like a teacher who loads me with more homework, my elders at home like that_teacher MORE!😳. I was ignorant of this_statistical concept! INVERSELY proportional)

3)mind as an emotional fool ( not often, that an elder offers a ‘chocolate’ out of pure_love. My elders even warned me “don't eat anything from a stranger”. Often, the boss offers a liberal praise, when he looks at me as an unwitting idiot to fall for his ‘friendliness’, while planning to exploit my potential for unpaid/unrewarded/non-compensated ADDITIONAL load of work )

4)spirit/soul/atma ( a bit fuzzy thing to substantiate ‘logically’.  My sister, 3 years younger than me, was DISCOVERED to be my_protector since her 2 years of age! No logical explanation for this! Using ‘negation/neti_neti, न इती –न इती…. soulmate is the only option left out😢। when she was an adult, and throughout later, her ‘being’ continued to be my protector😂. Of course, I gained just_enough spiritual experience to explore to her, about her strange tie-up with me. I could NEVER reciprocate her shielding unto me🙏. I was a ‘normal' brother only!)  A rather difficult_to_get type of example . Spirit itself is EVASIVE 🙏😰. How to quote and substantiate an example about its ignorance_removal???)

Innocence:

No examples are needed👍🙏

Terse concepts are in place 🙏 

Absence of negative emotions 🙏

( Evidence: Show me a fraction of 1 negative emotion, in a new born baby, even till it gets a month old? That baby is innocent. Unfortunately ignorant of its own innocence and unaware of own self)

I became aware of the merits/demerits of the visible qualities of people around with age and experience 🙏. Compatibility issues decided the level of friendship. Ignorance of kid_age was without filters(fetters), and so, intolerance/resistance was almost non_functional, though latent😜😜

About kid age school mates, I need to keep aside my eccentricities acquired beyond teenage, if I am to have any hope of refreshing, for_a_while, the kid_age friendship from the other 🙏. That's my responseAbility🙏. Not quite easy 😜. But worthwhile 👍.

Knowingly yours,

psn(23 March, 2026)