WANDERERS – XI

She walked into the temple next to the cave inside the same compound and prayed to the idol there as the boy entered. She offered some sacred sweets and water to the boy and asked him to accompany her out just before the boy’s mother barged in.

‘Don’t you dare take my son there!’ she whispered noticing the man standing outside. She took the boy along with her out of the temple and walked off rudely!

He didn’t quite understand their differences as they stayed in the same place, ate together and talked at nights. In a short while the sanyasin also came out and saw him waiting for her.

‘Can you please tell me what’s happening here?’ he questioned.

‘It’s a duty and he won’t like it if I discuss’

‘Who’s he?’

‘Allah, Shiva or Jesus, whatever you call him…’

‘Sorry, I don’t believe in god!’ he said.

‘You won’t believe him, but he believes you. He had told me you were coming, he had told me you would be of help for me.’

‘I’ve heard people say these kinds of things and there’s always a motto. I’m sorry to be straight but what’s behind this? I trust you too if you tell me the truth’

‘He sent me to you and I can’t hold back! I know you don’t believe him but I believe you believe in yourself and so promise to yourself that you won’t take this matter to the bad world of wrong people out there.’

‘No, I won’t and I mean it’ he asserted.

She walked him back into the cave and the waves generated inside with more pressure. She seemed much happier than before and asked him to be seated on the wet muddy floor. They closed eyes and took deep breaths and meditated once again. The fragrance got dissolved in them and she said the verses once again…

tvam kah aham kah vidasta

vettr sah jaatr sah vayam nashta

Without repeating it like before, thus she translated the true meaning…

‘Who you are, who am I –we worn out one day!

Only he knows, we don’t - we just decease’

tathya anrutaasya

chala pratya

kathaa yaa

‘Truth is unreal

Fiction is real

That’s the story’

Continues…