A further extract from ‘Black Shield’

What is illusion

 

 

 

 

He remembered the time when he was in a large city in South India and had attended a public debate where a Marxist leader was pitted against a religious teacher. The Marxist leader who was bespectacled spoke first and went to town saying that the concept of Maya or illusion was a lot of hooey propagated by the religionists to keep the laity in bondage, He pointed at the audience and said “ Look, we are all here sitting and I am behind this table speaking to you. Where is the illusion? You cannot wish away the table, the chair and me or wish yourselves away. So let’s not fool ourselves with all this philosophical double-talk” He continued in this fashion for a full half- hour. It was the turn of the religious teacher to speak next. Announcement by one of the organizers indicated that the religious teacher or ‘Swami’ would speak. There was a hushed silence in the audience and the fact that the Swmiji was well known for his oratorical skill and lucidity of thought had its effect. However there was utter consternation when an announcement was made for a Doctor to come up to the dais as the Swamiji was collapsing with low blood pressure. There was great sympathy for the Swamiji and the audience dispersed when the closure of the meeting was announced. Venky was perturbed with the argument of the first speaker who had debunked the idea of illusion. He was sure the Swamiji would have tackled the matter quite well had he been able to speak that day. Venky felt that he had to express his view for the benefit of the public and shot off a letter to the Editor of the City’s prominent Newspaper. Venky wrote about the meeting and the speech given by the first speaker and the inability of the second speaker to reply and continued “The first speaker was wearing glasses. Let us for the sake of argument say that a powerful microscope type lens replaced the glass on the right side of his spectacle. The Marxist speaker would then see with his right eye only electrons and subatomic particles moving at incredible speeds and the table, the chairs, people etc. would vanish while with his left eye he would see no change. What then would he say about illusion? Which eye of his was giving him the illusion?” Venky had the pleasure of seeing his letter prominently printed in the Newspaper the next day and was glad that many others would have had a chance to put their thinking caps on, after reading his letter.

 

Who are we?

 

 

Spiritual teachers discuss the concept of the identity of ‘I’ in the human context as to whether it is the gross body, the mind, the intellect or the soul etcetera.

The common refrain is the example of a person calling the parts of his or her body as ‘my body’,’ my hand’, ‘my face’ ‘my lungs’ and so on signifying that he or she is the possessor of, but not the body or its parts referred to.  For clarity the example is given of ‘my house’, ‘my dog’ to show that the use of ‘my’ makes it very clear that we are not the body but we are something other than it.

The argument is perfectly valid. However let us take the example of someone saying “I ran’, “I walked”, “I kicked”. In this case what does one mean by it? No one says ‘my legs ran’ or ‘my hands slapped’ and so on. In other words whatever the body does or the mind conceives or feels is expressed by using the word “I”. In other words the totality of the body with all its systems and supports is the “I”.  This is one way of thinking. Some say that there is a witness in us which is a part of us that is ever present from birth to death, before and beyond birth and death that is the soul which is indestructible.

The best thing is to leave it by saying that God only knows what it is all about and we are not provided with the ability to go beyond the limitations of our sense organs of touch, taste, sound, smell and sight.

 

New Electrical theory Continued(Extract from ‘Black Shield’)

This is in addition to my previous post of an extract from my published novel Black Shield

In New York Dr. Robin Clifford turned towards the man known as Sigma (his original identity being no more valid) and said “Bravo! You pulled it off all right. I acknowledge you as a genius of our time. Now tell me as to how you had come up with this idea and about the next step” Sigma said “As you know I had come up with a theory that could explain the phenomenon of electrical dysfunction in respect of a terrestrial disturbance that occurred close to the location where the team was proceeding to at the time. You remember I had said that I stumbled upon the theory that there could be a spot roughly around three to five kilometers in radius on the surface of the earth which could be running deep down to a central circular core area which may be termed the force center of all electrical impulses of planet earth’s mass molecular structure. Well it’s something like this; the electrical forces of our planet Earth are presently believed to be held in perfect balance, thus producing no resultant reaction. I had said that the Electrical and nuclear forces in nature were enormously greater than the gravitational forces. Even so, since these electrical and nuclear forces were both held in check by being in a state of perpetual and perfect balance, the gravitational forces though comparatively much smaller were presently dominating the inter-planetary force-field system.  Even a comparatively small force such as say the force produced by Electro-magnetic repulsion if it be of the required magnitude, when applied at that particular electrical center of our planet earth, could artificially create an electrical imbalance to trigger an enormous electrical reaction producing unknown quanta of energy. This could perhaps even result in making the earth take off at great speed into space and run astray overcoming its own gravitation as well as the orbital influence of the pulls exerted by other planets of our Solar system. I had also said that this was bound to lead to unpredictable chaos and possible destruction on a colossal scale far exceeding that of any nuclear disaster.’

Robin was still skeptical and had countered ‘OK, Doc now tell me, for God’s sake, what do you really feel about all this? Is it just one of those crazy theoretical conjectures or is it in the realm of possibility, however remote?’

‘Well I’m pretty certain I could be right. It is an area that has not been explored up-to now and needs deep study and experimentation including the simulation and application of these intended corrective charges. Electrical theory as now taught ignores these twisters and I’m pretty sure no one yet has an idea of the electrical center of the planet earth as even a remote possibility.” He continued ‘There is no coherent theory to explain this phenomenon. However I felt that by resorting to some extremely fine modulation by varying the magnitude of the applied repulsion-force in an absolutely controlled manner, certain surprisingly beneficial effects, would also become possible leading perhaps to man’s control of nature in various as yet unknown ways. Its full potential could only be known after further research’.

“We will have to build the world’s largest and most powerful Charge-Generator and put it in the right place and start manipulation.” said Sigma. Then followed a long description of the modalities and the theories involved. Said Sigma “You have seen me obtain repulsive reaction from instantaneous charges, simultaneously applied circumventing the presently held theory that work needs to be done to introduce a polarized entity next to or near an electrical or Electro-magnetic body for which purpose the amount of work required to be expended is calculated on the basis of the field strength of that body. The main sphere we are talking about namely the earth would be of a mind boggling potential field strength and this kind of calculation to place another body next to its electrical center would give the amount of work needed as something which would be far far beyond any human capability if we follow the traditional mode of calculation. I have formulated my course of action based on the required work on the basis of adopting an instantaneous charging technique for both bodies simultaneously with identical quanta of charge, thus producing a force of repulsion sufficient to destabilize the electrical balance of the main sphere and prepare it for finer manipulation. Once this is achieved, there is no stopping of the enormous and mind-boggling energies and force factors we could expect. The world as we know it wouldn’t be the same again” 

Sigma continued “The main parts could be built in the U.S and the others at other locations including some in India where it would be easy to maintain secrecy as no one would bother to know what goes on next door and also perhaps in Japan.” Detailed discussion followed between the two and a plan was agreed. The special task force they had lined up consisting of six top executives and support staffs who were waiting in the adjoining office were summoned one after the other and specific instructions were issued and arrangements for transfer of funds were put in motion. Apart from the United States, the other countries selected for equipment manufacture and logistic support were Japan, Taiwan and India. Main land china was to be utilized for transportation in a clandestine manner with the explanation that the equipment was purely for seismic research for the prediction of Earth- quakes. The concerned authorities in China, it was decided would be told that a database was to be established as a continuous scientific program and the data would be shared with the Chinese institute of Seismology and Geo- research. While the main equipment would be shipped by sea from the port of Sanfrancisco in the U.S. West coast to the southern most port nearest to the Chinese main land, the other equipment would be airlifted to India first for integration with that to be locally made and then both parcels of equipment would be taken over land to the actual location for installation. The entire process would be meticulously monitored to avoid any hitches. The installation team would be waiting at the location prior to the receipt of the various pieces of equipment and the whole exercise including the installation and testing would be done under extreme secrecy. “ I will guide and instruct your man at every stage to erect the machinery. I somehow visualize that the center that your man will identify under my guidance would be close to where we have installed the Power plant with enough foresight” said Sigma. Both Sigma and Clifford would coordinate their travel plans to ultimately meet up at the specific location site well in time. After a grueling exercise spread over the entire day, Dr. Clifford left for contacting his close confidant nicknamed Bull. Sigma stayed behind and busied himself with his assembly drawings and sketches painstakingly put together in the last one month.

Sigma was manipulated by his captors turned friends in such a way that his identity had been erased completely since the official records would show that he had died and his body had been interred in a grave in New York in the presence of his friends and colleagues. However Sigma was glad that his ideas had been highly respected and a job of unimaginable importance was entrusted to him and billions were being spent to bring his theories to fruition in a way that the world leaders would shake in their shoes once the consequences are made known to them. He was however curious to know the identity of the person going by the name of Bull who it was believed had great respect for Sigma’s creativity and himself an electrical man capable of implementing Sigma’s step by step instructions at site. Sigma had earlier read in books of fiction that this technique of obliterating a person’s identity and making him dead in official records was frequently used to get the concerned person to perform acts that he would have normally rebelled against. The person would be told that they could kill him whenever they liked since he was officially classified as dead anyway and the only way for him to survive would be to do their bidding with a smile. Sigma never did imagine that he would one day be a victim of such tactics. He was not aware as to whose body was passed off as his own before being interred. He was keen to know the identity of ‘Bull’ who was a member of the expedition team and who had agreed to become a tool to serve Dr. Clifford’s grandiose plans.

 

 

New theory of earth’s electro-magnetic centre

This is an extract from my published novel Black Shield.

This suggests a new theory. Other relevent extracts will follow.

 was quite extraordinary.  At around four in the afternoon

the Irish American Dr. Callaghan called all the other team members together and said ‘Friends, after studying the quake phenomena at the previous location of Shimpu and after prolonged experimentation with the equipment I had brought with me, I believe I hit upon a plausible theory. It is that there may well be a place very near our present location which could be termed the Electric force center of the earth. It would no doubt be a marvelous discovery if we could get to it. This electrical center I feel could be around half a kilometer in radius apparently circular in area defining a fully balanced zero potential field. There are enormous possibilities if this center could be manipulated to give positive benefits including total control of the earth’s weather and unlimited energy supply. Goterella, Ward, Chalkidis and Williams were all- agog with excitement and were eager to pursue the search for this electrical center and determine its location. Callaghan further said ‘Any manipulation of this electrical center if such was at all possible, has to be done at the critical point which could be deep down, well below the surface and should be detectable with the help of an instrument that I propose to devise with the existing scientific kit available with me’.

It was agreed by all that this was to be considered as only a preliminary attempt to discover the various aspects that may have contributed to this new and peculiar riddle concerning the mystery behind the observed result of electrical aberration in the presence of a quake. It was further agreed that the Idea of earth’s electrical center had to be kept a secret till its exact impact was assessed on the existing data and on the functional knowledge one had of the earth’s entire electrical phenomena as was presently known or as surmised by the scientific community. They all decided to help Dr. Callaghan in the search for this place, the so called electrical center of the planet and make their views known on the advisability of trying to go deep under its surface to locate the critical point, once the approximate location of the center was established.

Murder and Mayhem

                            

                   Violation of Human Rights

 

                                (Murder and Mayhem)

 

      Definition of human rights and values and their deliberate and willful violation by some human beings either individually or as members of a group is a complex issue. One must differentiate between rights and values. Values have larger connotations that ultimately decide the type and extent of rights that are allowed to the residents of any particular area of human habitation.

The complexity varies with the pattern of governance of the concerned countries or states. A democracy where the people are ruled by their elected representatives or a feudal monarchy with kings or queens ruling over their subjects or an autocracy or a dictatorship or a totalitarian regime or a colonial power or an army of occupation ruling over the people, all these differ in the degrees of freedom and rights enjoyed by the individual in the system prevailing in that particular place. In places having democracy the rights are safeguarded by law and remain sacred and inalienable. In other situations and places the rights are largely dependent on the whims of the rulers. Benevolent rulers may even give degrees of freedom and rights well beyond those available under law in a democracy. The ‘Rama Rajya” concept is an example of such a possibility. However by and large the values get eroded and people suffer suppression of freedom and their basic rights in non-democratic environments.

Human values could also vary according to traditional, historical or religious factors that may come into play during their codification and conceptualization in different societies.

Violation of human rights in the larger context meaning the violation of those rights universally accepted as fundamental may happen on a large scale only when groups of fanatical people indulge in such activity. The group could be a small one comprising of a few persons or it could be a large one. A large group could be of any size with no definite limit. An entire nation or race may sometimes become a group on ideological grounds and violate accepted human values by perpetrating heinous crimes against those that are actually different or considered to be different from their own ilk. Religion, ethnicity or political ideology could form the basis for such a division into ‘we and they’ that could ultimately give an excuse to the perpetrators to commit some of the worst crimes including genocide.

 Historically there are many instances of people suffering injustice or oppression coming together as a group to fight against such oppression and injustice. Revolutions such as the ones that occurred in France, Russia and China are examples. However over a period of time we see that regimes that captured power came to be controlled by the organization that spearheaded the rebellion in each case. These organizations or parties became ruthless and dictatorial and systematically eliminated all opposition by killing them off after branding them as reactionaries. The great purges in certain communist countries and the mass murders in pre-World war two in Germany are the unfortunate examples. The Polpot episode of brutal killings of a colossal number of humans in Cambodia is a further pointer. There are various other instances of genocide such as in Darfur systematically perpetrated in countries in Asia, Africa and Europe.

It is therefore foolish to expect uniformity in the fight for human rights when in some societies, honor killing of their own children who marry against their wish goes unpunished and in some others ethnic cleansing seems to escape censure.

What is food

 

 

 

 

                                    Food- What is it? 

 

   The word ‘Food’ while it rings a bell does not however transport one into an intellectual or analytical frame of mind.

At most the word instantly appeals to one’s sense of taste as also to one’s basic hunger fulfillment and perhaps in due course reminds one of items like meat, bread, fish, milk, cereal, fruit etc. that are essential ingredients in the preparation of one’s breakfast lunch dinner supper etc. which have to be eaten regularly to ensure that one continues to live each day. We have the famous prayer in the Bible asking the almighty to give us our daily bread among other things.

It is surprising but true that our ancestors in India had thoroughly examined what food meant in real terms. They called it ‘Annam’. They said “Annamayam Jagat’ (The world is food-filled).

  They also came up with certain commandments as to the do’s and the don’ts regarding food.

  Three of these commandments are as follows;

Annam Na Nindyaat Tad Vratam. (As a sacred commitment, do not abuse food)

Annam Na Parichacsheeta Tad Vratam (As a sacred commitment, do not detest food)

Annam Bahu Kurveeta Tad Vratam (As a sacred commitment, multiply food)  

 

   An interesting explanation follows each of the above commandments to say that ‘Life is based on food and the body is sustained by food. Life is dependent on the body and the body is dependent on life. Therefore food is based on food and whoever realizes this will never lack it and will be prosperous in all respects and will be shining with knowledge etc… .’.

  Further concepts of fire and water their nature and their interdependence on food and Earth (matter) and sky (space) their nature and interdependence on food are cited.

 What does all this mean? Is it the ranting of an incoherent mind wanting to confuse one and all? Certainly not. It stands as a shining beacon of intuitive knowledge of the highest degree the human mind can comprehend.

All living beings in this world have to depend on one another to sustain life. In other words living beings have to eat other living beings to prolong life. Vegetarians deriving food from trees and plants are also part of this cycle since trees and plants are living entities and hence not exempt from the chain of living beings. The only difference is that plants do not appear to directly devour other living beings that run or fly. There are some exceptions of plants catching insects and dissolving them for assimilation. Man the undisputed lord as he seems to think himself to be is also food to a wild beast or to other cannibals. So the entire world consists of food and is sustained by food. A living body (food) cannot exist without an other living body (food).

Even the soil, the fossil fuels etc. on our planet are examples of food degenerating and transforming into those entities.

 One very important question is “Why do we have such an elaborate chain with all living beings at the entire micro level to the macro level existing and ultimately perishing either as food for someone or by natural degeneration and death of the body due to age as applicable to each species. Each body of whatever size harbors other living bodies within it. There are myriad living organisms in the human body that lay dormant only to become extremely active once the body dies. One could recall the words of Shakespeare referring to worms that show no respect for a dead king’s carcass.

When India’s Rishis said ‘anuroraneeyan- mahatomaheeyan’ (the smallest of the small and the biggest of the big) while describing the nature of the Almighty’s attributes, we can only marvel at their insight. The laws of existence birth and death are the same for all life however small or however big.

   Coming back to the subject of food, food has to be fresh and free of poison to sustain life, irrespective of whether the life is one’s own or that of the one to whom it becomes food. Man forgets that God (or whoever) that designed our order of things was a million times cleverer than all of us. The creation of functionally tenable and self-evolving structures through a combination of bones with skin outside and a plethora of components inside called the body is the first marvel. The body is made up of vital organs with nerves and arteries circulating blood having unique systems for oxygenation, assimilation of energy and the elimination of wastes in complex self programmed modes both for gradual growth and gradual decline. This program is inbuilt in all living creatures keeping them ever fresh till death occurs or till the body is killed and eaten by other creatures. Each creature is maintained at its optimum temperature alive and ready as food if so needed. (Compare this with food by way of dead carcasses or lifeless vegetable stock inadequately refrigerated in man- made machines preserved as being fit for eating).

The dictums seem to address the ignorance of people who generally have complexes regarding food. There are those who consider some foods dirty and vehemently detest such food and criticize its consumption. There are also those who humiliate others by citing the lack of cleanliness of the food the others enjoy. The first two Upanishadic dictums are appropriate in this context.

The dictum of multiplying food is attained by procreation of the species apart from other modes such as raising crops by man.

In practical terms it should be noted that man has the unique opportunity of choosing the food that pleases him most. Some are happy being vegetarians while others are happy being non-vegetarians. The main thing here is that it is best to leave each to his choice and not detest or criticize the food traditionally consumed by the other.

 

   

Extracts from my forthcoming novel-2

Scene

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”

Extracts from my forthcoming novel

“Atulyaratna the Indonesian Youngman had held the audience in London spellbound with his story of the extraordinary change that came over the old man in Surabaya.  The old man that was earlier mentally retarded dull and ordinary with a pronounced stammer had miraculously become extremely coherent lucid and authoritative. He showed an awful command over the spoken language. When people questioned him about this miraculous change he was reluctant to provide an answer except to say that he was now a different person even though the body may have remained the same. It was ultimately the local priest that intervened and sought an explanation from the old man threatening to excommunicate and bar him from staying in the village if he did not explain. The old man insisted that he was willing to reveal the truth to only one person of his choice that lived in the village who could do whatever he wanted with it. The village council then decided to accept the condition. The council asked the old man to make his choice. The choice fell on Atulyaratna’s father. The old man related his tale to him. The father in turn revealed it to the priest and the priest immediately put a stop to any further revelation saying that it is the devil’s word and he wanted no one else to hear it. The excitement died down after that and the old man continued to be respected for his knowledge and the discrimination he showed in not revealing his secret to all and sundry. Atulyaratna however was able to get the old man’s story from his father strictly on condition that he would not reveal it to others. Atulyaratna had kept his word while he was in Indonesia but he was under great strain keeping such a bizarre story a secret. His father had recently passed away and had left him in a dilemma. Being In London far from home Atulyaratna decided to finally share the secret story with a select group of young persons. That was how Sandra and I heard it that fateful day.

Atulyaratna said that the old man’s assertions were fantastic and unbelievable and negated most religious beliefs held as gospel truths by the faithful. 

“What were the assertions?” many that were present there had asked.

“For a start, according to the old man there are powerful centers on Earth that control all living beings. All humans at the time of death lose their bodily identity as well as the attributes of name and form to pass through  a series of stops to ultimately become tiny dots of transparent light capable of only one yearning that of receiving a pulse of energy from the control center that determines rebirth. The combined thought and memory bank passes on to the center that attracts it and stays there till it is either destroyed or given to a fresh body-mind depending on the center. In the physical world unknown to us there actually are more dimensions that may be called the fourth, fifth and the sixth dimensions, unseen and unknowable by living humans apart from the three that we know namely length, breadth and height pervading all space. The old man did not count time as a dimension. These other dimensions are entered into immediately after death. Passage into the fourth dimension will result in an inconceivable boost in size while entry into the fifth will result in size change from the hugest to the tiniest speck. Entry into the sixth would result in a transformation into just a ray of light. Entry into these dimensions apparently is controlled by the centers.

 The old man said he had lost all sense of his physical body but was conscious of utter peace and was not aware that he was dead. He was conscious firstly of a colossal hugeness and later of the smallness of the smallest spec inside an enormous envelope of space. After that a glow came over his consciousness and he could experience a sense of traveling at unimaginable speed first to one center and then to the other while his sense of peace stayed undisturbed all along. Although he was not aware of his body, he could at all times experience this journey that seemed instantaneous. He had no feeling of time in that state of absolute peace where the blissfulness that was being felt did not diminish. However he had seen or more accurately felt a glow of light and a thought occurred that he did not belong to the center. He did not react and continued in his state of bliss until he was violently shaken and awoke to find that his mental ability high, making the knowledge of things and ideas sit lightly on his mind. He also had a clear video like image of all that happened from his death till rebirth. He said that he had a visual image of a place where extremely huge sized beings were moving around who barred him from entering a particular place that he was not aware of and the next thing he visualized was that he was in the light glow as a tiny spec when there was a sound that told him ‘Go back to a body waiting for you’. The old man said that it felt as though he was made into nothing at the time he was barred entry and that the spec that he was aware of was a different consciousness and the body he entered was not known to him earlier.

The old man was pointedly asked by Atulya’s father “Do you know or remember who you were when you died?” for which the old man had replied that he could access many philosophical insights from memory but was not aware per se of the body he was previously in or the body he was living in at the moment. The old man said that the body aspect seemed unimportant and that the only important factor was his memory bank and the ease with which he could access it. When asked about how or what made him feel the process of travel without a body, the old man was non- plussed for a moment but collected his wits and replied “Physical movement which is a part of travel as understood by men and women with bodies is different from the awareness of travel that happened to me in my ‘after-death’ stage. I just knew,” he said without defining what he meant by the word ‘I’. While he could not define the person or thing that the word ‘I’ represented he seemed pretty sure of the experience of feeling.”

Extracts from my forthcoming novel

“Alright. Ask me your question”

“Promise me that you will not hold anything back but will tell me what you know as I keep seeking answers”

“I promise. As I said I’m not a Nava Sadhu and has no reason to mislead you.”

“I consider you as my master and hope to experience truth whatever that may be”

“Fine. Please go ahead. Let me make it clear that I’m going to convey to you what my master told me. There will be nothing of my own in this”

 

Carlos was more than pleased. He was excited knowing that for the first time in his life he is talking face to face with a highly evolved human.

Carlos had studied many great books of religion, philosophy and metaphysics earlier but had been utterly disappointed so much so that he had turned into a bohemian and an atheist. He had started splurging on the good things of life and was happy drinking dancing dating and having a good time.

Carlos started his questions.

“I believe all things and events including birth, growth, decline and death of humans are pre-ordained, do you know who pre-ordains them?”  

 The exchange went on.

 “While there are as many theories as there are strands of hair on my head, each is often claimed by its protagonists to have emanated from the Supreme Being. While we have statements by masters over the past many centuries on the basis of visualization or their transcendental experience, there are others that are conceptually different. There is a concept I know of. It’s the one my master expounded. ”

‘Please go ahead. . While many such theories are proclaimed true by the faithful, others, the so called non-believers, pick flaws declaring their own to be true.”

 “My master says that the control mechanism of a living human which is called the individual frequency or consciousness  is outside the person’s physical body. He visualizes this to be connected in some manner to the brain circuit at one end and to a matrix far away from it at the other. This would explain he says of one’s out-of-body experiences seeing one’s own gross body from outside which happens when the brain’s connections to the individual consciousness and to the matrix undergo transformation, a temporary removal of the ego and the memory bank of thoughts.”

“What then is death?”

 “The master said that death is nothing but an out of body experience of a longer duration of earth-time, a condition when the connection of the individual consciousness to the brain circuit is severed while its connection to the matrix remains. Death happens to all not only to the living entities but to particles of matter and all other substances in the universe without exception. The only difference is the time frame of ‘death- reincarnation cycle’ which is different starting with a trillionth of a second for atoms or particles to billions of years to planets. Among those considered as living beings it could be a thousand years for a tortoise. In this cycle man appears to be in the 100 to 150 year range. Death happens when a combination of influences make it happen. We will come to that as we go along”

“What about reincarnation?”

 “Unless a special condition arises when the individual consciousness is severed from both the brain circuit and the matrix resulting in non existence of that individual consciousness, a human or for that matter any entity has rebirth. The non-existence happens when it becomes a part of the core of the matrix as the core draws to itself all the disconnected ones. The matrix is a realm of the Supreme Being, the universal consciousness. Incidentally there are many matrices. There are those that control matter and those that control life as we earthlings understand it. ”

“I seek your pardon but I’ve always  strongly believed that no human can ever know the truth which is in a dimension unknown to him or her and utterly impossible to fathom, given the limitations of a human’s potential to perceive through the triangle of sense organs, intellect and intuition. Your master would certainly know that”

 “Hey, permit me to go on with my master’s concept. The next major question is about this connection between the brain, the individual consciousness and the so-called matrix. How are these connections made? How are the connection between the brain and the so-called individual consciousness maintained or severed? How did the matrix happen and who or what made it happen. You will be impressed by my master’s answers whether right or wrong. He is most consistent. He says

 Birth and growth are related to seed programming that selectively determines one’s evolution. The elements of male and female energy Yin and Yang of Tibet and China known as Shiva and Shakti in India get activated when fertilization happens. According to him the human body is an entity continuously connected through its porous transparency to various other bodies in the cosmos and is under their constant and continuous control and itself controls other bodies through a series of unique vibrations. All bodies are inter-dependent and their connection is through a medium not apparent or discernable by any human intellect or intuition. The trigger or stimulating agent of consciousness of a living body or Prana as mentioned in Sanskrit lore is connected to the matrix of universality encompassing all consciousnesses. The matrix, particularly its core, is called by different names by theorists one such being ‘Realm of God’. This matrix contains the male and female attributes that enter into each individual consciousness to control and sustain activity. Prana has within it ‘Chaitanya’ or liveliness, which in simpler terms could relate to vibration. All these taken together may enable the matrix to perform and hence they form its component parts.”

“It seems pretty simple, more like what we learn in science fiction?”

 “My master says that life is a miracle with living bodies floating in a continuous envelope of air and other gases which again are a conglomeration of elemental particles on our planet earth that is spinning and rotating at great speed with rays of energy entering and leaving through spaces and through pores of skins affecting each of the three main sheaths a living entity has such as the gross body of outer skin and other astral bodies that are in the realm of individual consciousness. The entities unaware of this fact carry on merrily believing in physical attributes of shape form and environment.”

 

“Let me be quite frank. I am very skeptical. I somehow feel that all this as propounded by your master could be mere idle imagination within the limited parameters of a human’s mental activity which is basically chemical in nature. Therefore I insist that the real thing cannot be and will never be known to your master or to you or me or to any human being”

 

 “Let me continue. I contend that the master has defined the components of a workable system. One cannot say the system is true since our capabilities and senses as humans are severely restricted and our vision is blemished to an extent that one may say that it is impossible to know the truth. Perhaps that is why the master says that we humans had to put in place concepts of a universal father or mother or a combination of both, creating and ruling over their creation. The idea was to make one believe that a ‘ father-God’ or a ‘Mother-Goddess’ or a combination of both gods or other similar deity figures created this universe of all things seen and unseen and who at every millisecond or less of earth-time, monitor every sin we commit and love us and forgive us our sins provided we pray and sing their glory and live and act according to their commandments and follow the guidance so lovingly given by them over thousands of years through their angels, prophets and messengers or by themselves directly taking birth on this unique planet called earth which as we all know is but a tiny and insignificant sphere-shaped object in space, one of many such objects that are like specs of dust or dots in a vast boundless cosmos. This rather simplistic but widely held belief of the one God or many Gods might ultimately turn out to be the absolute truth. Who are we to say yes or no? The fact is that we humans cannot be sure of anything that lies beyond our capacity to perceive or understand, the master said. It could be that a very simple answer exists and that God could be a man-like figure of immense power that controls everything in some mysterious way. Or perhaps we as part of the matrix ourselves create the world and sustain it by our free will.”

“Very convenient indeed, indeed”

“Thank s. The fact is that no human normally wants to make sacrifices to know the truth unless it is for his glory and for his unlimited happiness here and now or in another world of which he has no real knowledge except what has been given to him through channels he considers holy. The human also wants to be free of pain, physical disability, poverty, sexual impotence or infertility and illness apart from worry and stress, all of which are the ills one encounters in life in this world. Anyone who removes his or her pain in a jiffy or removes one’s stress or poverty or sexual malaise becomes a savior worthy of elevation to the status of a ‘miracle- performing super-being’ and the religion or the path of action laid out by this super-being or by his followers becomes a sacred belief to be nurtured and spread. This commitment becomes so potent that one would be willing to kill those who oppose or contradict this sacred belief in any way. It is a fact that a large percentage of people follow and fight for this or that religion more out of a strange fear rather than because of any conviction arrived through a process of self inquiry which may be the case with only an enlightened few, says my master.”

“I agree, there is the fear of infamy, fear of deprivation, fear of being left out, fear of so many other factors and the ultimate fear of punishment in a horrendous zone called ‘Hell’. For many life is a routine, a continuation of one’s family traditions, beliefs and rituals providing a comfort zone already in existence at the time of one’s birth and nurturing him or her till death. However tell me more about the master’s theory”

“My master asked me one day to imagine a person, an earthling, describing a scene so bizarre that in all probability I would attribute it to that person’s hallucination or to a dream sequence of some unidentified origin: my master went on to repeat to me the person’s actual words as follows.”

“What I saw was exceedingly strange and awe-inspiring. I do not know if it was a dream or if it was real. I saw an enormous stretch of terrain between two huge distant snow-capped mountain ranges. There was no access through the mountain ranges making it impossible to reach there unless one flew over the glaciers.  I was there but did not know how I got there. In this relatively vast flatland there was a huge area glowing with light.  One could notice an unending screen of light as long as the eye could focus apparently closing in on itself as it spread over to the left and to the right in all directions, its vertical height seemingly disappearing into outer space. Millions of small dots, crosses, circles, asterisks and other unfathomable symbols were flashing on to this unending screen at random. They were going off the screen and reappearing at speeds that could be described as unimaginable by human intelligence. Positioned on lines passing through the center of this complex matrix of glowing color screens, were rows of huge spatial cylinders, each cylinder made up of clusters of colored sparks that shone like diamonds, rubies, sapphires, emeralds and other gems of rare brilliance. These cylinders of light that seemingly disappeared into the sky were constantly rotating on their axes at considerable speeds flashing symbols on to the screens all around. The whole scenario was inconceivably bizarre and mind blowing”  

 “The master said he spoke to the person who saw or dreamed up the above scene. He said he spoke slowly and clearly”

“I’m glad you saw this mind blowing spectacle which is beyond description by words known to you or me or to any fellow human. I say that there is a logical explanation of what you saw. What you saw was one of the control centers of human life, which for some reason is separated from the life of all other species. There are such control centers at inaccessible physical locations in certain parts of the earth and on other planets as well. It is a self-contained system that is similar to an administrative hierarchy as we know it, controlled by a number of main cores of the matrix each responsible to monitor one of the directions for ensuring the working of the total system. Each symbol has a role to play in controlling the activity of one single human and in registering continuously on the screen at a dedicated space every action from the first breath at birth to the last breath at death, monitoring all activity, recording merit, demerit and the resultant gain or loss of the glow factor specific to that human. The control center is constantly bombarded with sparks of light from planets and spheres around its axes hitting the glow spots of each individual symbol methodically affecting the glow quotient which in turn adjusts the individual’s action at all times throughout life because of its connection to the individual consciousness of the person. In other words planetary influence is also a factor”

“The master said that the person was keen to know who created the matrix configurations. The master had to explain thus”

 “The core of each matrix is a part of the Universal consciousness or the Supreme Being capable of drawing unto it all the loose and floating individual consciousnesses, under the divine laws of relationships between the individual and the universal consciousness. Now you have seen the effulgent light of the matrix, can you guess where it comes from? The light screen and the symbols are a complicated configuration controlling the life of each human entity represented by a symbol that stays on till the individual consciousness exists. Once merger happens the symbol is altered and becomes attached to another individual consciousness. It may be worthwhile to look at the vast and enormous life in the non human context comprising birds, animals, insects the crawling and the creeping ones, germs, bacteria and a million other as yet un- identified entities all throbbing with life, consuming other life for food to prolong their own existence. Somehow most humans believe that all non human life is soul-less and insignificant and has been expressly created for humans to benefit from and to keep them well provided with meat, eggs, milk, leather, other necessities, cleansing compounds, bacteria, essences and so on. Our view of the non-human life is skewed. In fact it is quite important and does play a unique part in the regulation of human life. The light screen has specific symbols each of which connects an entire group of a non limbed or non moving species to the matrix and controls it. How the glow factor operates and in what manner it controls and records all activity is a matter I cannot explain nor do I know it in my present human form.  Now coming to the presence of light, we know that God appeared as a beam of light without any form or shape according to the scriptures. The famous Ten Commandments were given by such a manifestation of light as described in the Old Testament and as Jyothi in eastern languages. Light therefore is an attribute of the super natural and light it is that made the matrix and it is not possible to explain it any further since the human intellect is not equipped to understand it. ”

 Just then the stranger touched Carlos with his finger on the forehead. The next thing that Carlos saw was something he could not comprehend. He shouted in great excitement

 

 “I am speechless. I now realize that we, you and I, are actually physically in sight of the matrix. How did we get here? Is this what the supreme power is all about? Is it so easy to de-materialize and re-materialize our physical atoms? What is destiny? Who decides it? Who programs the minds of sentient beings? Questions aplenty indeed! I know. I also know that you will provide me the answers in a manner that will make me understand and that you will later safely get me out of here even though it matters little whether or not I get out once I know the secret of these things.”

 “Just remember that you have forced me by your genuine quest to bring you here. It is a great risk I have taken and I may have to pay for it in the only way I know. Yet I promise to show you the ultimate secret, as I know it and I shall do so come what may. However I’ve to first put you through a long story covering many years. You have to carefully visualize the scenes. You will then understand how I finally got here for the first time quite recently just a few Earth-years ago. There are many other masters and grand masters that will figure in it. The fact as to how I came to acquire the crucial knowledge to reach this secret place is a story that starts with the yacht named La Solaris which your father had owned. You are now empowered to see the things as they happened by looking at the time continuum.”

“I’m prepared’

Who runs the universe

Here is a piece from my forthcoming novel involving spiritualists of all backgrounds of all religions. I will be posting more of these extracts regularly

Proposed name of the work–’Secret Realm’

One of the masters, a handsome middle aged man of Indian origin started his discourse. It was a huge gathering of men and women eager to listen to the master holding them spell-bound every time he spoke.

   “Any discussion on spirituality has to take off from a point that shows that it is some thing that is capable of being felt or experienced. For a start it could be a traditional belief about inner space named ‘the kingdom of God’ that is within us as declared by Jesus. If you have faith in Jesus you will naturally consider this to be true and all further action to explore that kingdom becomes easy as you have no doubt about its presence within you. It does not matter to you whether this inner space is there or not in other humans or in non-human species inhabiting our world.”

“What about God and our concept of him or her?” asked a member in the audience.

The master started speaking of God:

 “Another traditional concept is about God. Not being given the power to distinguish between a hallucination and a so called divine spiritual experience, one is forced to fall back on the concept of God which is a faith oriented issue rather than an intellect-logic oriented one. Jesus Christ said he was the son and that his father had sent him and that the kingdom of God is within us.

We thus have two concepts namely of ‘God’ and of ‘his kingdom within us’. Both are based on faith. Several others revered as prophets or Avatars have also spoken of God. Scriptures of most religions have asserted God’s status as the creator of the universe as also the one who is full of unconditional love and most forgiving but rather a strict and punishing father-mother figure.  Perhaps the Buddhist lore is the only one that does not define God in any way and has no concept of such a phenomenon. Some of the subtler religions declare God to be the un-seeable, un-understandable, un-definable, omnipotent, all pervading entity with no beginning middle or end, ever present in the smallest of the small and the biggest of the big and so on. In other words our exploration concerning spiritual phenomena is flawed since we are forced to accept the existence of something or some one called God with no proof and no structured logic at least as understood by our mind stuff to be able to proceed further in the matter. Yet another belief system does not mention the creation of the universe or attribute it to the one that it considers to be the Supreme Being that dispenses reward and punishment in each case. It only mentions the Supreme Being as the dispenser of justice by way of reward or punishment that too after death. ”

 

“We have the word of many exalted personages describing their interaction with God. Do you consider them to be valid proof of God’s existence?” asked another member of the audience.

 “Our Himalayan seers from the East declare that one can experience God when one’s ego is obliterated leading to a merger of one’s self with the universal self which is called God, the self becoming a sub-part of that God. There is also the primary concept of peace, happiness, joy or bliss one is capable of experiencing in stages of greater and greater intensity by a process of a structured effort that includes meditation and chanting among other things. Mention is also made of energy infusion techniques that activate certain nodal centres of the human body leading to transcendental experiences of bliss. How far these are authentic and not merely the result of a rearrangement of the brain’s chemical composition is a point to ponder. The need to establish the fact that no external chemical substance is taken into the body to produce such a feeling of bliss becomes important and the inducement of a chemical reaction in one’s mind purely by an action of one’s mind, intellect or the vibration generated by elements of one’s own body, border on the bizarre or the miraculous,’ said the master.

“What about those god-men who though illiterate and or uneducated had risen to the very pinnacle of spiritual greatness without ever studying the scriptures or philosophy?” asked a member from the congregation?

“It is a very valid question. Man is only said to be discovering whatever there already is and knowledge is one of the things that already exist and can be tapped into by anyone who through his mind attains a state of receptivity. It then becomes a matter of switching the brain to the right frequency that could be done either by meditation or by some other technique. These great men perhaps know an alternate way of switching.” The master said.

Suddenly there was a commotion and some members of the audience got up and started moving towards an approaching woman dressed in yellow robes. Apparently she was someone known and respected by many.

The master smiled at the woman.  Pointing to a chair next to him, he Said “Sister Uma, May I request you to please join me here”

“It will be an honor far beyond what I deserve” said the woman and walked towards the master.

 

“Please listen carefully” said the master addressing the audience after the woman sat on the chair. “Sister Uma is a person that has attained a position in the realm of spirituality that you may call mind blowing”

The master then turned towards her and said “Please explain to them the meaning of de-materialization of the five- sheathed human body” 

Uma got up and started addressing the gathering “I am indeed grateful to the master for his kind words of introduction. I owe my spiritual progress to the master’s kind guidance and instruction.  Let me now give you an over-view of what the human body comprises of. One’s gross body sheathed in skin is the form with a given name that one normally identifies with his or her personality. The fact is that this gross body is called as the ‘food nurtured’ sheath. There are four other finer and subtler sheaths that shroud the body which are called ‘The mind nurtured sheath’ ‘the life nurtured sheath’ ‘the mind nurtured sheath’, ‘the knowledge nurtured sheath’ and finally ‘the joy or bliss nurtured sheath’. Sometimes two or three of the sheaths are considered as one namely the mind, life and the knowledge related ones thus reducing the sheaths to three. They are not visible to the human eye. Yoga teaches us the way to access these sheaths to transport one to wherever one wishes in one of these sheaths. Each sheath has a corresponding mind stuff that comes into play as we access the sheaths.”

“How does the mind work as one goes into meditation? Does one experience each of these minds associated with the five sheaths one after the other?” asked a person from the audience.

“Yes indeed. That is the purpose of their presence. As one progresses away from the first mind associated with the gross body, the other minds take over at each stage and the final stage is bliss or Ananda.  A person returns to the gross mind when the bliss stage is consciously ended” said Uma replying to the query.

“The scientists tell us that we humans normally use only a very little portion of our brain. That is correct. The other parts come into play when we enter the finer sheaths. “Said the master.

 

Suddenly the place became hazy and Uma disappeared. The master said “Let us prepare our minds to accept a fact that defies ‘Physical laws’ as we understand them. Uma wanted to show us as to how it is possible for one to de-materialize one’s body stuff to disappear from view. Uma is very much here but in a different dimension from the dimension in which we exist. She cannot communicate with any of us except through the mind. She has the power however to create whatever she wishes in our dimension before materializing herself back to be with us.”

 The silence that greeted this statement was total. The audience was in a state of shock and disbelief.

The next moment Uma reappeared and started speaking. “I know how unreal all this will look to most of you. The master is yet to reveal some other important detail about my disappearance. I now request him to speak to us about it.”

The master spoke “Uma is right. There are various ways in which true yogis can act if they wish to. Physical disappearance is the first and basic act of leaving our dimension as demonstrated by sister Uma. A yogi who attains the power called ‘swa-drisya’ can stay in his body while at the same time manifest himself in any manner or form in a place of his choice using one of the sheaths other than his food nurtured sheath namely his body. He can then be in more than one place at any given time.”

A long and interesting session of questions and answers followed. The master explained many of the concepts concerning the world as it exists for us the humanoids. The master stopped his interactive session as something else apparently gained his attention, perhaps a telepathic message.