He is always full of questions and utter curiosity about everything. Sara, a critical thinker, loved entertaining the little boy’s inquisitiveness as well.
When Tinku entered Sara's apartment, Sara asked him to make himself comfortable on the sofa and asked Gita to prepare a cup of coffee for her. She offered a bar of chocolate to Tinku.
There was a joyful gleam in Tinku’s eyes at the thought of getting answers. He munched on the chocolate and asked: “Aunty, what is God? Where can I find him?”
Sara was smiling and amazed by the question on such an esoteric topic from a seven-year-old child!
Sara took a deep breath and replied: “Dear Tinku, God is a mighty entity; he is omnipotent and omnipresent. God is the source, reason, and destination of everything.”
Tinku: “God is so powerful? He can kill all of us?”
Sara: “Yes, but he can also save all of us.”
Tinku: “Aunty, I want to please God so that he always saves us ... but where does he live? How can I go there?”
"You need not go anywhere, dear. God is everywhere; you are seeing and feeling him each moment. You need to just realize it." Sara replied with a calm smile.
Tinku's big eyes became even bigger in awe, he asked: “Where? Sara aunty, please help me. I want to talk to him.”
Sara couldn’t keep Tinku in suspense anymore. She embraced the seven-year-old before revealing the esoteric knowledge: “Oh my Tinku, you are already talking to a part of God!”
Tinku surprised and confused, asked: “Are you a part of God?”
Sara replied, letting the prodigious child go, “Yes, Tinku! You, too, are a part of the omnipotent. In fact, we are all parts of him. Everything which makes this universe is part of him. The sum of everything is God, the cause of everything.”
Sara was not sure about Tinku's realization, but she continued ...
“The combined intelligence of the universe is God. That is why the divine is related to the combined force of this universe.”
Tinku was trying to understand what Sara had said; he asked playfully.
“Sara aunty, then are we always connected to God?”
“Yes,” Sara confirmed.
Tinku: “Then why couldn’t my father answer when I asked him the same question? I even asked mummy, grandpa, and my school friends Giri and Simmi; they all said different things every time.”
Sara smiled; she liked those who are always in the search to know the unknowns. She replied: “Maybe God is in and around us, but to realize him, meet him, we may have to travel a long way. Some may have to sail the seven seas and go to the land far away, to meet God!”
Tinku now looked worried about this ...
Sara continued: “Fortunately, the foreign land is nowhere but in our head. We need to focus on being aware of ourselves and our environment.”
Sara's face lit up as she continued as if she is addressing a serious group of larger audience ...
“We need to believe that everything in this universe is connected, we are all born out of it. Everything remains here forever in different forms like water remains. Water evaporates in the presence of the sun and forms clouds, which again comes down to earth as rain. Only the form gets changed, from liquid to solid, solid to gas, and then becomes invisible to us. We all are out of God and within God always.”
Tinku: “If we are connected to God, then why do we cry after death? When my grandma died, everyone cried.”
Sara: “It is our mind that imagines everything, our existence as well as our non-existence; everything is a culmination of our imagination.”
Sara quickly realized that things were getting too complicated for Tinku. To lighten the moment, she asked Gita to get some water to drink. Gita brought two glasses of water and kept them on the table.
“But ma’am, what is the point of knowing all this? I’ll still have to work in others' homes to run my home,” Gita suddenly asked. She was sitting in the corner of the room, listening to Tinku and Sara's conversation.
“Yes Gita, this knowledge is of no use until and unless we apply them in our daily life. As I said, it is all in our minds; we only need time to think and grow our beliefs. We should be wise enough to minimize our pain and experience life better. It is the knowledge that guides us on the path to happiness, but it is only up to us who can walk the path and reach our goal,” Sara replied empathetically.
Gita: "In any way, ma'am, we ordinary people become sad if we lose our valuables. We can’t believe that God is in everything, and we are part of it."
Sara: "This is because we cling our memory to the forms, not the formless."
Sara was not sure how much Gita had understood it, but Tinku seemed overwhelmed and ran towards the door.
“Bye, Sara aunty. I need to show God to my parents.”
Tinku left Sara’s home in a great hurry and excitement while Gita and Sara were smiling.
***THE BEGINNING***
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