Childlike nature; earned innocence. Bala Bhava distinguishes two kinds of openness: the unconscious innocence of someone who has not yet been tested, and the earned innocence of someone who has passed through experience, suffered, integrated, and recovered genuine presence on the other side. In the 4th Tarot this distinction is central to the Six of Cups: the card does not invite regression to pre-experiential innocence but the conscious recovery of essential openness after the shadow has been faced. Earned innocence is more durable than original innocence because it knows what it has survived.
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Bala Bhava
बाल भाव
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