Follow Your Conscience

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This is about a program that took place on the 27th of February 2004. It was a very funny program. There was no dialogue or speaking; there were only gestures and postures. The students were acting. Only by watching their signs and gestures, we were able to make out the exact theme that they wanted to convey.

Perhaps this was the first time this type of program (known as 'pantomime') was taking place in Sai Kulwant Hall. Usually such things are done in a smaller gathering. But they did this program right in front of Swami and in front of so many people.

The students enacted it in front of Swami and then later, after the enactment, they asked the crowd, "Who will tell the message of this?" Then the other students would raise their hands and one of them would tell the message of the whole scene which had been silently enacted. It was quite interesting and Swami keenly watched every episode (skit.)

This is another episode. One boy came to the front and started gesturing in different ways with his fingers, acting like a monkey. "What does it mean?"

Then came the answer: "The small movements with the little fingers means that the body is like a water bubble. Then, while pointing the finger to the head and acting like a monkey, he was showing that the mind is a mad monkey. And directing the body 'no' means, 'don't follow the body.' Pointing towards the head saying 'no' means, 'don't follow the mind.' Pointing to himself means, 'follow the conscience.' So, the body is a water bubble; don't follow the body. The mind is a mad monkey; don't follow the mind. Follow the conscience."

That message was conveyed by the gestures of the body. Everybody liked it.