Sree Narayana Gurudev was a smart, handsome and witty child who was very perceptive of all that was happening around him. Everybody felt forcefully drawn to him. Even as a child, he showed a tendency to teach and correct others. He saw elders placing fruits and sweets before the pictures of mythical gods.
The little boy Sree Narayana Gurudev stealthily got into the sanctum and ate the sweets and fruits offered to gods. When he was questioned he simply said, “god will be pleased if I please my self”
He found the elders inconsistent in their moods. When an elderly person died, people become grief-stricken and cremated the body with much fuss and lamentation. After a couple of days all were found in their usual merry mood. Seeing this, the young nanu want away and sat in the woods nearby when people found him and asked him why he left home, he said he was confused by the inconsistent behaviour of this elders. He saw his parents and other elders observing untouchability. They were even afraid of becoming polluted by going near a working peasant.
To break this taboo, little Sree Narayana Gurudev want and embraced the so-called untouchables and unapproachable and came home to touch and pollute his family members. Thus he was a reformer of the society even from the start.
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