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My dear  children,
I like , being with children and talking to them and, even more , playing with them . 

For a moment , I forget that I terribly old and that it is a  very long time ago since I was a child .

I do not want to give you a string  of good advice  as to what you should do and what you should not do . I suppose you have enough of this from your teachers
If you were with me , I would love to talk  to you about this beautiful world of ours , about flowers and trees and birds and animals and stars and mountains and glaciers and all the other wonderful things that surround us in this world .

I hope , you will be more sensible and open your eyes and ears to this beauty  and life that surround  you. Can you recognize the flowers  by their names and birds  by their singing ?   How easy is to make friends with them and with everything in nature, if you go to them  affectionately and with friendship!

 You must have read many fairy tales  and stories in the past . But the world  itself is the greatest fairy tale and story of adventure  that has ever been written . Only  we must have eyes  to see  and ears to hear and a mind that opens  out to the life  and beauty of the world .

I have recently been to the united states of America , canada and England . I found the children there very like the children  here  and so I easily made friends with them  and whenever  I had the chance , I played with them  a little. That’s  was much more  intresting  than many of my talks  with the grownups  who imagine  they are very different and deliberately  make themselves so.
Some months ago , the children of japan  wrote to me and ask me to send them an elephant. I sent them  a beautiful elephant on behalf of the children of india . This elephant  came from Mysore  and travelled  all the way by japan .  when it reached Tokyo ,  thousands of children  came to see it Many of them had never seen an elephant .

So we must  also think  of their country  and of many  other countries  in the world and re
Member that everywhere there are children  like you going to school and play . sometimes quarelling but always  making friends again . you can read about these  countries in your book  and when  you grow up , many of you will visit them . Go there as friends and you will find friends  to greet you.

As I write , I think of the vast  army of children all over the world ,  outwardly different in many ways , speaking  different languages , wearing different kinds of clothes  and yet so very like another . if you bring them together , they play or quarrel. But even their quarelling  is some kind of play . They do not think of  differences among themselves.

Adventure,  Wonder and Discovery
Our country is a little world in itself , with an infinite variety of places for us  to discover . I have travelled a great deal in the country  and I have grown  in years I wish I had more time , so that I could visit all the nooks and corners of india.I would like to go there in the company of bright young children whose minds are  opening  out with wonder and curiosity.

I would  like them to discover  for themselves  that they can play  about  in the snow in some parts of india and also see the other places  where tropical forests  flourish . Such a trip with children would be a voyage of discovery of the beautiful trees of our forests and hillsides and the flowera that grace the changing  seasons  and bring life and colour to us.

Children should be wiser . 

At any rate, I hope the children who read this , will be more sensible.
November , 1958 

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