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Danger brings about a state of emergency for which we do not have any safety measures in hand. We simply cannot avoid dangers in life. If life is, dangers are bound to be there. No wall of safety can ever work as a fire-wall against the emergent danger. But emergency in itself has the power to turn us on our own. There is no help available from any corners around since it does not give us time to arrange any of these. It catches us unawares. We are just left bare entirely on our own resources, whatever we have at our disposal right now and here. We have to face it with what we have in our hands. Or else it will kill us! In no time do we summon up all our energies, scattered here and scattered there, onto one single front, i.e., facing the emergency IMMEDIATELY. There is no fear in our mind anymore, since if it were, we would not have been able to summon up all the energies and have a laser-like focus onto what the emergency is threatening us with. Fear eats up our energies. Does it not? We forget everything and just become the action against the emergency. Nothing else do we remember anymore! Because if we remembered, it would again require energy for that; and we simply cannot afford to scatter energy even a bit! In that case we would not be able to take the right action efficiently against the imminent onslaught of emergency. In a laser-like focus, we forget our past and face the emergency with an empty mind. Because it is only with an empty mind that the brain can work at its best and at its swiftest! And whatever action is performed in such a state of the most acute awareness does NOT get registered in the mind. It does not leave a single mark of it in our memory. It does not mean that the memory cells of the brain stop working; in fact, it does get recorded there in a crystal clear way. But the mind is not there at all at that particular moment to register it in its psychological memory; and even if it were, it would have refused to register it — so unbelievably impeccable are the actions of such moments that the body takes against the emergency. OK, mind shuts off, brain takes over the complete charge of the situation in the emergency; but what does it do to the body that immediately goes capable of performing the unbelievably impeccable action against the situation that it would, otherwise, never even have dreamed of doing in the so-called mundane situations? Body comes out of its rigidly armored-cum-lethargic, closed disposition and immediately jumps into a ready and relaxed, open posture of flexible musculature. Obviously a flexible musculature can flex its muscles better than a rigid one! At this point, let me remind you of my experience of a middle-aged mechanic saving a child from being run-over by a speeding car through an almost impossible maneuver of his body in order to perform the IMPOSSIBLE feat in the impending emergency that he did, when I was a 10 year old boy: The first incident — a miracle — is of when I was around 10 years of age. I had gone to my maternal uncle’s place in Dehradun to spend my holidays there along with my parents. One day I was going on the road alone for a stroll. I have been very fond of strolls since my early childhood. I was on the Bindal Bridge and had already crossed it on my way to Connaught Place. Suddenly I saw a little kid in the very middle of the road and a car speeding toward him with hardly any distance left between the two. There were some shops around but the road was quite broad over there and separated them from the middle of the road by quite a distance. You couldn’t imagine the kid would be saved. He was simply sure to be run over by the high speeding vehicle. In my perception, then, nothing else but a miracle on earth could have been able to save him. It was a sure death, I thought, and closed my eyes. I wouldn’t be able to witness the tragic scene! I kept my eyes closed and waited for some kind of noise generated on the road after the accident would have taken place. But there was no screeching sound of the car applying its brakes after it would have crushed the kid to death. Rather there were some excited voices of the people around, exclaiming applaud! I, hoping against all odds but still fearing the worst, slowly opened my eyes. And the miracle had happened! The kid was safe! The car had passed by without applying any brakes. And the kid was saved by a middle-aged gentleman who, at the moment, was lying down on one side of the road with the kid safely tucked inside his arms. A few people had gathered, running toward the man, around him; and were creating exclamatory voices excitedly, applauding and praising the man! After all he had done a miracle! I ran across the road toward the man and asked him, excitedly: “Sir, how could you perform the miracle? I had spotted you before the accident (!), and you were there on your shop at least 20 feet from the kid — that was more than the distance between the kid and the car! But then I had closed my eyes. How were you able to reach the middle of the road in the blink of an eye and save the kid?” The man gave me a cool and relaxed look that comes after doing something really challenging and worthwhile in a total perfect way, nodding his head in a ‘no’ and stretching his hands in an awe. He himself didn’t know how it all had happened and what, in fact he had done! I looked toward the people around with the question in my eyes and they immediately started describing the whole incident of the miracle that had taken place in those 2 or 3 (at the most 4) seconds of duration. O my God! What a story was it! Till date it is as fresh in my visual and audible memory as it just has happened right now! Even listening to it was as exciting as witnessing the miracle…. “He jumped like a cheetah,” one of them extolled him taking the kid from his arms, “impossible!” “Oh, it was like lightning,” another exclaimed with awe in his eyes. “We just saw a streak of light, that this man had become, emanating from his shop and falling on the kid as it enveloped him, and picked him up to snatch him away from the open jaws of a sure death that it had to be,” a third one emoted, “of course impossible!” This middle-aged gentleman who had miraculously saved the kid, was a car mechanic working in his shop when he saw the draconian car pouncing upon the kid with its high speed it was at. And he did the impossible! “No, I didn’t really do anything! I only remember seeing the kid going to be overrun by the car, ….and now you are saying that I did all those actions which I never did all through my life,” he himself was amazed at what all had happened within no time at all! “It just happened. It just got done,” he continued. “You must have been endowed with some divine power at the moment by that almighty God to do the impossible,” a fourth one ideated. “I never sprang like a cheetah in my life. I am not an athlete too,” the man was really getting surprised himself at what an impossible-looking feat he had been able to perform, and that too, without any preparation or planning at all! And now, immediately after, he had forgotten it all! “Are you tired? I mean, exhausted,” I asked him. “No, not at all; rather I am finding myself absolutely fresh as if invigorated by some invisible stroke of energy within me,” he was really meaning each and every word he was mincing, it seemed. He was not tired. He was not exhausted even after performing an almost impossible task, which the best athlete of the world wouldn’t have been able to do. Was there some secret in it? I started thinking. I was 10 years of age then. The whole incident got imprinted on my mind as a vivid visual stored into it and kept its existence intact till in the 53rd year of my life it again surfaced up asking for an explanation for the process of getting tired or fatigued after doing something really tough with a great effort on our part. But this man had not made any effort at all! And the impossible had got done in the best possible way. Rather, the way! The only way! The way didn’t tire him at all. He was as fresh and relaxed as after a good night sleep. There is something that the humanity is missing. We must discover it, what! This was what the emergency did to the body, to the mind and to the brain of this middle-aged man who saved the kid like a superman in the comics only does! Now the question is that if an emergency can cause such a total change in the body so instantaneously, can it somehow be made a lasting one also? Lasting for life! A trillion dollar question! 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