Supreme God – The Perfect Creator
This is a small instructional and Moral story typed verbatim by my son Gopal, from one of his story books.I told him to do so, just to keep him busy and not disturb me from what I was doing.When I saw what he had done, I was quite impressed and decided to post it here.The simple story helps us to illustrate, how Supreme God is the perfect creator of everything, animate and inanimate we see in this world. Right from highly intelligent Human beings, Huge trees, Mountains, Rivers, Stars, planets, the Sun and the Moon. If we carefully observe, we realise that everything is created in a perfect way and nothing came about by chance. There is an intelligent creator, the most perfect and Supreme being who is behind everything including ourselves. That’s why in Srimad Bhagavatham the Supreme God is called the Otam and Protam, like the threads supporting a cloth going horizontal and vertical across the length and breath. He is also mentioned as Aniyor Aniyan and Mahato Mahiyan – the smallest of the small and the largest of the large. In Bhagavad Gita, The Supreme Lord explains the same as below –
“mattah parataram nanyat
kincid asti dhananjaya
mayi sarvam idam protam
sutre mani-gana iva
O conqueror of wealth [Arjuna], there is no Truth superior to Me.Everything rests upon Me, as pearls are strung on a thread (BG Chapter 7 Verse 7)”.
Let’s get into the story my son typed from his story book.
It was a hot day. Ramu began the long journey to his uncle’s village. On the
way,Ramu saw a huge banyan tree spreading its branches, welcoming him to
rest under it’s shade. Ramu lay down on the cool grass,reveling in the shade of
the old banyan. As he rested , he looked up at the branches of the tree. He noticed
the tiny fruit on the huge banyan. He said to himself, “I believe that the great lord
is the most intelligent of all. But why did he create a huge banyan tree with such
small fruits! “He thought about the pumpkin creeper in his backyard. The creeper
was slender but it’s fruit was so big. He thought,”surely the lord has made a big
mistake! The huge tree must have large fruits and the small plants, tiny fruits.”
The cool breeze and the soothing shade of the banyan tree slowly lulled Ramu
into a deep slumber, when suddenly… The breeze blew harder. It became stronger
and swifter. The branches of the banyan began to shake. Some dried leaves and
fruits fell to the ground. One bunch of fruits fell on Ramu’s head…
He awoke with a start and shook with fright as he wondered what had hit him.
He thought “If it has been bigger I would have been badly hurt!”. He folded his hands
and thanked the lord, “you are the wisest! You made this great big banyan tree for
weary travelers like me to rest under but made it’s fruit tiny so that they will not
get hurt badly. I shall never doubt your creation again. You are the PERFECT
CREATOR!”
Ramu thus understood that since, lord is perfect everything created by him is
PERFECT!
The invocation Mantra from Isopanisad says,
“Om purnam adah purnam idam
purnat purnam udacyate
purnasya purnam adaya
purnam evavasisyate
The Personality of Godhead is perfect and complete, and because He is completely perfect, all emanations from Him, such as this phenomenal world, are perfectly equipped as complete wholes. Whatever is produced of the Complete Whole is also complete in itself. Because He is the Complete Whole, even though so many complete units emanate from Him, He remains the complete balance”.
