Mukkalam uNarntha gnanai

Vyasar is a famour saint of his time. The Indian epic Mahabharatha is about his descendants. He is the one who collected solidified the Vedas and hence called Veda Vyasa.

These details are from my memory and are not that relevant to today's story.

Suhar is Vyasar's one of the sons. Suhar followed his father's footsteps and became a saint in early age. One day father and son were walking through a village. Son is walking a few hundred metres in front with Vyasar following him.

On the side of the road there is a river and young maidens from the village are bathing in nude. They run to the ground and chase each other, having a nice time. Suhar passed the river. There is no response from the girls. They just continued their plays.

As soon as they felt the presence of Vyasar all of them jumped into the water to cover their bodies or picked up the clothes to drape themselves in. Vyasar noticed all this, he asked them

"I am a old man and being a saint for a long time. My son is a youngster. You did not feel ashamed when he was passing by, but as soon as me, a old man come you are scrambling to cover yourselves! what is up?''

"Suhar is gnanai. For him it does not make a difference that we are young women. He continued to walk in his meditation of the nature, the river and us. But you discriminate and has an eye for us. That is why we behaved the way we did"

Today the women are grown up. 20 years back they would have been babies. and 40 years hence they will be old ladies. To Suhar the reality is in all the dimensions. Not the 3 physical dimensions alone. That is why his meditation was not disturbed by the women and they were also neutral to him. Vyasar, even though a saint, does not have that level of maturity.