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Kesava, a talented thinker and an impressive analyst from India

designs the first "human computer" with which (whom), humans can

communicate their ideas, as easily as they do with other human beings

and get their work done.

 

Kesava wins Nobel Prize for his pioneering work in the field of HCI.

All along his career, Kesava had a few close friends, who shared his

ideas and aspirations and encouraged him. One of them is Pardha.

Pardha has been with him from his college days. He knows each and

every phase of "The Making Of Kesava". There was just one thing that

Kesava did not know...

 

Pardha somehow believed that the idea behind Kesava's invention i.e., "human

computer" is not authentically Kesava's. In fact he never had any

doubt about Kesava's ownership of the idea in the very beginning. But

one day, he suddenly came to hear some of Kesava's students talking

over this issue. He enquired them and discussed with them and found

out that there is a very big probability of the "human computer" idea

having been "lent" almost completely by Kesava from one of his closest

students, Mike Jensen.

 

Pardha knew Jensen very well. He knows how dear he was to Kesava and

how instrumental was his help through-out Kesava's research. He has

also seen Jensen

sometimes correcting an erring thought of Kesava, during their discussions.

 

Jensen's extra-ordinary way of thinking and quite promising innate talent added

strength to Pardha's doubts. But Pardha cannot clarify himself anymore

on his doubts since Jensen unfortunately died in an accident.

 

Pardha carried on his investigation by meeting other close friends of

Jensen and going through the dairies and other personal writings of

Jensen. None of them could actually get him a "concrete" proof either

to believe or disbelieve in Kesava's truthfulness in claiming himself

as the source of the ground-breaking idea.

 

And this investigation...Pardha does, without the knowledge of Kesava.

He took utmost care to see that Kesava doesn't have the slightest hint

of his doubting Kesava's work. Why did he do all this? Why didn't he

ask Kesava directly?

 

He did discuss with Kesava on this matter, though not directly, but

Kesava never seemed to be hiding anything from him.

 

Few days before Kesava was supposed to take the Nobel, he came to know

of Pardha's doubting his authenticity, through some other friend. He

remained stunned for the day. He could not just believe that the one

who stood with him through thick and thin could entertain such a "big"

doubt about him.

 

While Kesava is still in the shock, the day approached when he is

going to take the

Nobel and Pardha has arrived at his house for (acting like?) sharing

his success and happiness.

 

What do you think Kesava would have felt when he met Pardha on that day? ....

 

It is the first time he met a new Pardha...whom he did not know...the

Pardha who never believed in Kesava...though he spent almost all his

life with him...

 

What proof can Kesava show him now to prove that the idea which created the

sixth generation of computers is a result of his years of thinking and prayer?

 

Firstly, should he prove it to him?

 

Shouldn't one word from Kesava, saying "Yes, I did it", not be enough

proof for Pardha to believe that it was his?

Why could not Pardha give weight to the bond of love and trust that

existed through decades between him and Kesava, and the sincerity that

he saw in him all these years?

Can Kesava entertain "the same closeness" and love for Pardha that he

had for him before he knew Pardha never believed in him totally?

 

My dear friends, I feel here comes the difference between man and God.

We stay with Swami; we experience His Love all through our life. We

get innumerable benefits from His Omniscience, Omnipresence and

Omnipotence all through. But still, we doubt His "ownership" of this

universe.

 

Even the people who have been with Him and around Him for decades,

those who are direct beneficiaries of His Omnipotence, and those who

witnessed all His

humanly impossible miracles with their own senses, still find it

difficult to have "100%" faith in Him.

 

This mind is a monkey. Not a million proofs before the senses or

certifications from scientists and professors are sufficient for it to

acquire faith.

 

And Swami LOVES each one of us COMPLETELY, knowing well-nigh that we

still do not believe in Him unconditionally...!!!

 

Is there any LOVE greater than this?

 

JAI SAIRAM

Pardha

 

PS: The above story about Kesava and Pardha was just a fictitious one

I created to drive home my point.