Once there lived a boy named Jahir who always came up with questions that no one could answer. One day, it was raining heavily and Jahir sat on a chair in front of the window and cupped his face with both his hands and thought about nature. When he started thinking of it, questions struck his mind. He started asking himself, “Why does the sun always rise and set? Why can’t it stay in the same place, and what’s the purpose of the moon if the nights have to be dark?” Jahir was sad because he did not know the answers to the questions. He asked every person of his village but no one could answer. From that day, he grew sad and never laughed or smiled.
One day, Jahir was roaming the street when he suddenly met a sage. The sage asked him, “Why do you look so sad? Do you have any problem?” Jahir poured out his heart. The sage then looked solemnly at Jahir’s face and said, “You can get the right answer through meditation.”
He meditated for years and years, and at last, he got enlightened. After he was done, he started teaching people what he had truly learnt. People were encouraged by his teaching and they also started meditating.
Jahir was kind to elders and loved children, and people respected him for that. Soon he became the most enlightened person of his time.
Yashaswi is a student of grade three at Triyog Higher Secondary School in Dhapasi, Kathmandu.