Learning the power of imagination from a seventh grader.

Namaskar, all you absolutely fantastic peoples.

I am a wanderer, Infinity is what I seek to reach, my Bearer is taking me closer to it, step by step, inch by inch.

I do not travel much, but when I do, I do so with utmost tranquility and acute observation, looking at details, mesmerised with new ideas and people who generate them incessantly.

It was one of the family functions I went for in the recent past: where I got to meet this bright, young and candid boy with a big smile on his glowing face, eyebrows widely stretched, suggesting a constant inflow of amazement, with incoming experiences and fantastic realisations on a per second basis.

He got really enthused when he saw me sitting in a yogic posture, trying to focus, and instantly put me through an indirect query made to a mutual acquaintance, which was answered right away. “He is trying to focus, dear.”

I mildly agreed, a little embarrassed at being caught, as I was sitting in a social gathering, with a different objective altogether.

Later in the evening, when we reached the venue of the wedding ceremony, this boy came to me and asked me to join him for a snack. I agreed.

Now being direct, he puts me through another question, ” What is your aim in life?” Well, it is a simple question but the way he had put it in front of me, taking into consideration the previous events, made me realize that this boy was really up for a meaningful discussion and that I could share with him a few realisations that I had had, in order to help him get closer to his bigger Self.

The Almighty has everything planned already, many realisations in my life have clearly substantiated this belief. To me, this meeting was going just the way I was thinking it to have gone.

I was excited but I told him first about my short term objectives to be achieved in a year’s time and that in five years’ time.

Further in the discussion, I started telling him about why my plans were so big and why I was so sure about achieving them.

It was about having a firm self belief to achieve what one has decided to do and an approach of complete submission to God. 100℅, not even a dime to be kept within as ours.

He interjected just as when I mentioned God, he said, ” But, there is one problem. I don’t believe in God.”

I was smiling inside about the funny plays that God plays with His children and how He had sent a previous disbeliever to foster belief into a new one. I told him about my condition when I was of his age. We were on the same boat, contemporaneously.

Then I tried to explain to him about the theory of relativity in a nutshell, in order to familiarize him a little bit with the concept of the Absolute. To which he responded in a fantastic manner by quoting Einstein: “Knowledge can take you from a to b but Imagination can take you beyond conventional limits.”

I had tears of joy in my eyes, as the same quote came to me a few days back, while doing my chores, thinking about the objectives of my life.

I told him about it, his eyes were all lit up to explore more. Looking at two totally differently aged people having a deep conversation, other people got amused and this boy’s father joined us and started complaining about his son like any other parent in the world, asking me to suggest his son to mend his ways in terms of studies, mathematics in particular and food habits. I said he was doing just fine.

Me and the boy both escaped shortly and made our way to the buffet. Later, the boy took my phone number and sent me a request on facebook.

I hope the sermon of belief works for this boy and he like all of the devotees of God, gets to drench in His Grace.

Ba’ba’ Na’m Kevalam.

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