- Prashant Krishnan. V
Sayeeda Madam handed over the envelope to me.
Saw the three shining letters G O D in the From address. Opened the envelope with utmost care. My eyes ran thro’ every word. I shrieked, “ Mam, HE wants me to share this mail with everyone. Can I read this aloud ?“ By then, the whole class as well as my teacher who seemed to be quite confused with what was happening, asked in chorus
“WHO…..!..?...!...?”
I had to give a prelude, before I could read the reply from GOD.
“Friends, some time back, we had celebrated Janmashtami in our house. Mummy had made lot of sweets & savouries, favourites of Lord Krishna. She also said Krishna is born that day. The photo of baby Krishna was so cute. Last week, we had Ganesh Chaturthi. This time, no baby, it was the elephant headed, long trunked Ganesha who was the hero of the day. As usual, Amma made varieties of sweets & savouries, totally different from the earlier lot, which she said these are all Lord Ganesha’s favourites. In fact, this sounded like - I love Chocolate icecream, where as my brother loves butterscotch. I think each God also has their own favourites !
A string of queries unending came to my mind – Can I see God? Where is HE ? Will he talk to me ? Will he play with me ? Will he come & stay in our home? many more …. I wasn’t satisfied with the Replies my parents gave. I thought why not write to Him directly. I had sent 3 letters. Now it’s his turn. Yeeh !! He has REPLIED !!
With a long, deep breath, I started reading GOD’s letter addressed to me.
“Dear Little Prashant, In fact, Good that you were bold & firm enough to approach me directly. Do share this mail with all your friends. Let me tell you I am in everything you see & everywhere you go. You don’t realize it. I help & protect you in various forms. The air you breathe, the water you drink, the ground you play is ME. The colourful flowers, huge mountains, flowing rivers are ME. See ME in your friends. See ME in everything around you. BE HAPPY .
With Lots of LOVE, GOD“
All of us in the class started discussing only this.
While returning home, I asked myself “If God is everything, everybody, Who am I ?“ I decided to write one more letter to God.
The very next day, I got the Reply from GOD.
HIS reply goes like this “Dear Son, though I am in every thing, every where, You all have a Major role to play. Mankind is destroying nature, cutting trees ruthlessly, converting jungles of green trees to concrete jungles, killing animals, Polluting air with all industrial wastes, automobiles, dumping plastic wastes in every corner of this world. Modernisation has taken mankind very far away from nature. Live with the Elements of Nature. Pure air to breathe, Pure water to drink and Clean earth to live are all Nature’s or My feast to all my SONs. Are you willing to take care of this & Pass it on to your next generation ?”
By then, I heard the voice of my Mom,
“Prashant… Wake up . Its time to go to school”.
“Oouch” its all my Dream. I realized,
However, He has clarified all my doubts and I am very clear NOW. I have decided to FEAST my next generation. Don’t you too feel so ?
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