DIVINE MEET

Dark is overpowering me. I am hanging in a well of darkness of my own; the evils are pulling me down and some good ones from the top of the well are pulling me up. But dark is overpowering the light every day. The hole remains the only source of light. One day one among the good ones come down and sought for the help and said it is the last chance for me to come out. I smiled at him and showed my unwillingness to not try it; I have already surrendered to the fate. The ‘good one’ asked me to close my eyes. With a smile on my face I closed my eyes.

As I opened my eyes I found me in a different world. The Sun is on its horizon it looks like that it is going to set down although there still have enough sunlight around me. There is grass all around me with only one tree in my sight situated behind me. And when I looked up towards the Sun I found someone coming towards me and it seems that he is the bearer of the sun. He has many hands. On one side the hands are full of weapons and in the other side all the hands have some books in them. He is looking like a warrior, his hair long and wild. He was wearing a saffron angvastram around his upper torso and dhoti around his legs. I can hardly concentrate on his face because of the glow he has because of the Sun behind him. I failed to identify the God like figure but my inner voice said me to respect him so I bowed in front of him as a mark of respect.

We keep on looking at each other for some time. I in order to identify him and to adapt the surrounding but I don’t know what the God like figure waiting for. But at last I broke the suspense hovering within at that time.

“Who are you” I asked him with whatever humbleness I have in me.

“That doesn’t matter” The God like figure at last spelled the words “The thing matters is that who are you”

I look perplexed at the God like figure as I haven’t understand anything. And realizing this the God like figure continued.

“I know you are lost and you have no hope of  a better future. But the root cause of  your lost  hope is your result oriented mind that creates desires in you. And these desires are the ultimate cause of your lost condition.”

“But I do not know what to do to get rid  of it. I even don’t know the difference between the right and the wrong.” I said

“Time knows. Time will tell you the path until than do your karma. And do not think much about the right and the wrong because they are not the two different things but the two sides of the same coin; just flip the side and you will see the right things.” The god like figure answered.

“So I will do my karma but the problem is that how can I distinguish between the right and wrong karma. And what if I land in a more deserted land full of chaos because of my wrong karma.” I admitted my doubts to the God like divine figure.

“So you are afraid of the result that your karma will cause to you that means that you are not taking my advice of not thinking about the results much. OK, I will figure this thing out for you in a different manner.” The divine Figure continued “Do you know  who decides the things wrong and right.”

“I think these are God that defines the difference between the wrong and the right. They came on Earth whenever the Evil go up and they destroyed the Evil.” I answered with whatever good knowledge I have of our mythology.

“I am impressed with your knowledge of the mythology but have you ever thought that why we have evil everywhere when God itself come to the Earth to destroy it." The God like figure continued after a pause "It is there because good and evil both are the sides of the same coin. You cannot destroy only a single side of the coin, in the same way you cannot destroy the whole of the Evil and the whole of Wrong from your life.”

“So that means that right and wrong are no different and with every right, wrong will follow.” I said in response.

“Yes son, that’s  the thing that I want to explain to you. Do the karma with your true self and forget about the right and the wrong results. Time is the ultimate decider of it. And Hope is the real friend of you.”

With this the glow of the God like figure starts increasing. The Sun is still at the horizon but this time the side is opposite; it is rising. I bowed with my eyes closed in front of the God like figure to pay my utmost respect to him.

As I opened my eyes I found myself in the same situation, hanged inside a dark well with the same smile and both evils and good ones too are fighting like before with the same spirit to bring me on their side. I looked up and found the the same good guy seeking for help and this time I identified him, he is the Hope my best friend. I extended my hands towards the Hope and he smiled back at me. I feel energized to go up. With each leap towards the hole the light on me increased and I feel more energized but the dark force too has increased. As I reached at the brink of the hole after hours of hardwork the dark force focused  all its force on me. I looked up at the Hope and closes my eyes and made the last forceful leap towards the light.

Then everything changed. I see nothing but light even with eyes closed. Then I looked on my left and found my dark shadow still sticking with me. I smiled on it and mumbled - "The Dark Side".

“Oh, what the hell is this alarm, I was dreaming.” 
This was a mere dream. I at last went out of my dream. But I am still thinking of the dream grinning on what strange good feeling it has given to me. And surprisingly I am feeling energized than ever before. My meditating thoughts of the dream jolted down by a faint voice coming out of nowhere in my ears - STAND UP THE BATTLE OF KARMA IS ON.

A Story by Sagar Sharma