Naina Mohammad - The Earth Shattering Personality

(This story is not related to anyone specific. And I am not a terrorist.)

He was the talk of the town. Naina Mohammad. When you hear the name, it sends shudders. People from all walks of life flocked to him. No, he wasn’t a saint or a seer. They all knew it. He had this magnetic personality, oozing with enthusiasm, positive outlook and he was a motivational genius.

One day, I decided to follow my friends Mary and Visalachi to Naina Mohammad’s talk. They were both very excited, as this wasn’t the normal monthly talk. It was a 3-hour session on the Essence of Bhagavad Gita.

“What? You mean Mary and Visalachi sits there for 3 hours listening to Naina Mohammad speaking on Krishna? Wow…!”

I was impressed, but the skepticism was lingering at the back of my head. Which was why I decided to follow them in the first place.

I have to admit, I was thoroughly enjoying listening to this man. He was funny and he knew things that I didn’t know about my own religion. At the end of the session, he gave all of us a round ball-like thing wrapped in a white cloth. He said it was a magnet ball, charged in Brindavan.

He gave us specific instructions – to place it at any public place with a lot of crowd movement. It was intended as a selfless effort by us to spread the positive vibrations within the ball to as many people as possible. I felt it was a noble cause, so I took one.

A few days passed since the talk. I was telling my family members about Naina Mohammad. They all gave me the same stares I gave Mary when she told me about him.

Here was a man, so unique, so knowledgeable and works selflessly for world peace and happiness. I think we all should emulate his principles, I thought to myself.

There was another talk the next day but it was cancelled because KL had a few bomb blasts earlier that day and there was panic in a lot of places. I called Mary to tell her that I wouldn’t be going.

“Hi Mary, I think we should not go out today. There’s a lot of panic outside.”

“Ya, you know I feel so guilty,” said Mary.

“Why?”

“I am still having the ball that he gave us. We should go and place it somewhere to avoid all these unnecessary bombs and all,” said Mary.

Then there was a loud bang on the other side.
“Hello… Mary! Mary!… Hello…”