Extracts from my forthcoming novel-2

By gotetimohan

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The Himalayan colleague that had returned from a conclave of spiritual masters wanted to convey the latest developments to his dear co-disciple that had newly come into the fold 

“It was a unique and a highly guarded secret meeting of eminent mystics of the world.”

“What about their background? Did they indeed forget their strong sectarian hang ups?” asked the co-disciple.

 “Though born into Hindu, Islamic, Jewish, Christian, Sikh, Jain, Buddhist, Zoroastrian or other traditions, they had over the years evolved universally applicable thought processes and physical activities that had in their own wise way,’ good heartedly countered the ritualism of theologically organized religions. The process took hundreds of years. Followers of the ancient Mexican shamanism delving into the spiritual mysticism and experiencing the Supreme “is-ness” came in as special invitees to this meeting. The main and only goal of this get together was to evolve a common approach to the danger of obliteration by the renegade brigade known as ‘Cleansers International’ that had suddenly become a menace to all those that were into spiritual practices of varied intensities and effects. The renegades were propagating the idea that the spiritualists were anti god and anti religion and that they opposed the word of God revealed directly and through the archangels. By misleading the masses the renegades are hopeful of alienating them from the influence of these spiritual masters. The mystics as you know were time and again deemed by some fundamentalists as blasphemers deserving to be put to death on sight.”

 “Please tell me about how the masses see the different sects and your own view of them”

“The mainly Jewish Kabbalah came into its own when the king of Spain had banished its members. Strangely the Sultan of Turkey had given them shelter. The Yogis and Mahatmas of India, the Ahl-al-Haqiqah saints of Sufi Islam, the ascended masters of the Kabbalah, the Medicis and mystics of Christianity, the Bodhisattvas of Buddhist lore and many others like the Munis of Jainism were all rebels that were shunned by the priests and scholars. They established the fact that erudition and intellectual brilliance do not always lead to divine experience or vision of the kingdom of god within oneself.”

 “How do you say that”

“Great prophets and messiahs had gathered simple folk such as fishermen, shepherds or farmers as disciples and gave them power and made them great. Whom did Jesus choose into his inner circle? Not the intellectuals or the priests. It was the same with Buddha who had Upali, a barber leading the Sangha.  Mahavira and Nanak had done likewise.”

 “Tell me. Were you excited to be at the conclave with the grand masters and masters?”

“I cannot even convey a hundredth of what I felt. It was exhilarating to see the manner in which the masters set about the task. Instant and effective empowerment was sought to be implemented without considering the tradition the masters evolved themselves from.  Hinduism Islam Christianity Buddhism Jainism and all other backgrounds held no importance. A Sufi saint would gladly empower a Christian cabala priest to levitate. A Hindu Mahatma would gladly empower a Zoroastrian Master to dematerialize and rematerialize to facilitate instant change of location. For perhaps the first time since humans came into existence there was this phenomenal bonding of all spiritual masters for a common purpose of ensuring the well being of humanity and the world. At the end of the day the most important aspect of the bonding was the creation of a super league of young intelligent men and women drawn from different backgrounds for countering the renegades. The league had definite goals and the emphasis was on utilizing the right means with no trace of hatred except the highest degree of commitment to restore spiritual ideals and values back into the society. To this end several contingents of young men and women members of the league were initiated by the grand masters into many supra- human capabilities,”

“Such as for example”

 “Such as the power to disappear and remain invisible, the power to fly, the power to immobilize a body or object from a distance, the power to visualize a situation and read the minds of others at will and the power to create weapons instantly to be used against a person or object. The empowerment was so initiated as to have a ‘one member one power’ norm. Thus the league of young men and women collectively had plenty of powers to deal with any situation. These contingents are authorized to lock horns with those evil renegades that are out to destroy the spiritualists. ”

“What happens next?”

“I would say a lot is going to happen and the empowered men and women are set to transform the so called cleansers by their superior strategy of confronting and proving a few things.”

“Such as”

“The utter uselessness of the cleansers’ temporal powers namely the power of money, weapons or networking power.”

“What will be the result?”

“Complete transformation of those who at this point in time oppose spirituality into convinced supporters of all that is spiritual” 

“Within what time frame would you say?”

“I would say less than a decade for us in the western hemisphere”

“Fair enough let’s hope so my friend”

 “However there is something sinister that the renegades are trying to do to discredit the spiritual masters”

 “Such as what for instance?”

 “Propagating stories of Sexual misbehavior on trumped up charges or of corruption, both very potent instruments to discredit the masters and grand masters and others. Men and women are being recruited as mercenaries on a grand scale for use as decoys and false accusers for this sinister purpose”

 “God save them. Human history is full of betrayers and traitors.”

“One more thing”

“What?”

“The renegades are zeroing in on entry into Kamandala, the forbidden zone. They have identified the procedure and the person that has the power to stop them. They are trying to kill him or perhaps have killed him already.”

“Who is the person?”

“An Indian businessman called Hazrara”

“The grandmasters, will they not take care of the situation?”

“I’m afraid it isn’t that easy”

“Why?”

“The renegades it appears have roped in a spiritual grand master of great power to help them”

“Who is he?”

“No one is prepared to reveal. It is their top secret”

“It is so unfortunate. History tells us of many such spiritual grand masters. They fall prey to jealousy and egoism despite their exalted stature. Even the great Buddha had to contend with his own cousin Deavadatta that tried to get him killed.”

“Let’s hope we will be able to get over the hassle”

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