Age Four: Soul trains the body

In my first blog I shall try to justify the name of the blog.

He being Swamiji, my job becomes even more easier . Most living mates Hindus or not, theists or not, believers or not realize that nobody else has traversed all five dimensions (length, breadth, depth, time and space) of this universe except him. None of his theological principles is in dissonance with the modern science. I shall go on to provide with several examples in due course to show how he has tested his life through several ordeals to accept or reject a belief - a Hindu belief. At times he has been brave enough to accept the inability to comprehend certain aspects that could not have a logical explanation.

He was four or five years of age. By then, he had already set in his journey towards the truth. A soul in quest can not keep the body in rest. So Bile (nickname of Narendranath Dutta who was later named by his "Madrassi" disciples as Swami Vivekananda) was quite unrest all the time. To keep him at home, somebody (mother) at his home once said that the banyan tree at the corner of the house sheltered lots of monsters. He climbed the tree and spent the whole night to test it out.

This is a very famous story. Anybody who knows him, knows the story. At least that's true in Bengal. There are two points that draw our attention - his age and his mother.

No normal (biological or just logical) explanation would explain why a five year old had to do such an act. Some people of today might try to correlate this to the experience with their kids at home who imitate some super heroes like Shaktiman, Batman etc. However, he was neither testing his valor nor satisfying his ego.

He has been known to be an ardent worshiper of his mother. "I am indebted to my mother for the efflorescence of my knowledge". A boy goes on to defy his mother (if not, presumably somebody of her respect) to test out the truth.

'Searching the truth' is no doubt the logical explanation of the act. However, a deeper search reveals that it was merely a process of making a "mahatma". A soul was trying to detach a body from the materialistic webbing (which he calls "Maya" at later stage) of this world at such early age.

Fear and mother (love), the extreme negative and the positive forms of attachment of a human being were challenged for the truth - though not the absolute truth. This was just the beginning of the end journey of a near-perfect soul which was waiting itself to find one with the perfect soul - 'the Brahaman".