On November 26, 2006, the 60-minutes show featured a 14 year old boy Jay who has already composed 5 symphonies. The boy started reading when he was 2, and started drawing musical notes when he was 3. They showed the pictures of the musical staff signs and the musical instruments he drew then. The parents shared that the family did not have any musical background and they too were surprised wherefrom he picked up this liking at such an early age. They said that they still marvel at his talents.

When interviewed, Jay told the News Reporter that he does not know how he gets the music. He said that he hears the symphonies in his head and does not need any musical instrument to transform them to music. He just hears them, writes them on paper and rarely edits his music. Whatever comes to him first is what it is. He doesn’t know the origin of it, but hears it very clearly. He says that sometimes he even hears it as a multi-channel radio station tuned simultaneously to 2 or 3 stations.

When I hear such things that cannot be explained with the concept of discontinuous life, I keep wondering about existence of life before birth and continuation of life after death. This span of time before birth and after death is always scarily fascinating to me.

I kept thinking about it for a long time after the program was over. I remembered the book “Ageless Body and Timeless Mind” by Deepak Chopra. I thought of revisiting it again after listening to this program.

Don’t you agree that certain things are outright impossible to explain logically? Do we have to find explanation and answers to everything we experience? Is it not more logical sometimes to accept the limitation of human brain and leave aside the futile exercise of finding answers and tune to our hearts?

Suddenly I had a revelation that night. The thought was so empowering and so crystal clear that I do not doubt it to be false. I do not know whether I believe that the life after death exists, and whatever I do really matters after I die, but on that night after listening to Jay’s story, I got the intuition that something can be definitely carried forward. I remember being overjoyed and that joyous state kept me awake for a long time on that night.

It was such a relief to know that whatever I want to accomplish, I have unlimited time to do so. I just need to focus on trying to do whatever I sincerely believe in without expecting the results in the known or measurable time frame.

I believe that I could be “Jay” some day!

Shubhangi