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Kaalchakra
Calcutta, 1942.
The room was old, as old as the house was. Located in a bit tricky and hidden passage, which is one among the city's many structural landmarks and that even today remains as an identity of its own.
The six young men, strapping, smart Bengali youths who sat crosslegged on the floor were deeply in concentration, with eyes wide open, paying absolute attention to the man who was addressing them.
The man was old, most likely about 50 years of age, but showed no signs of any weakness, that most men his age would be expected to show, in him. He was dressed in the garb of a typical school master, who were locally referred to as master-moshai. With a white dhoti and kurta, he talked seamlessly to his pupils.
"Before you understand time," he said looking ardently at the boys faces before resuming, "you must forget what you've learnt and that which you are comfortable with what you think is the absolute function of the world."
"In our period now, in the '40s, time has very less significance in the world. At least in ours. For centuries, there have been high individuals whose rationale mind, endeavoured for the answers of the universe beyond mere religion and God. They were scorned. They were silenced. Outcasted. Like Darwin, Galileo, Copernicus for their addition to mankind's knowledge. But even before they came, we'd the same concepts already here. And they're still being studied. And will be continued to do so. Not just the invention of zero, but also surgery, medicines, warfare, politics and judiciary. We had sages, monks, enlightened beings who said it all.
But the sages, especially the ones who had spent years in mediation after completely severing ties to the material world and surrendering to the unexplainable Nothing, they were exposed to a whole new idea of being. A whole new existence." Master da saw the boys. They hadn't moved, so deep was their attention in what he'd to say to them. He continued.
"When the belief of one man who has or had been convinced of the world of only one possibility and when it's challenged by a rival, yet more understandable approach he loses his mind. He feels angry and he feels he's been betrayed. If the belief of anyone's self is questionable and even subject to discard, then he falls into the empty pit of self-doubt.
The wise sages, in their course with the Nothing, experienced power, never before seen in a mortal. They were able to travel to what happened, the happening and what would eventually happen. They were able to move without sight, sound and no movement of legs in the air, without food, water they survived just on air.
In this course of their asceticism, they'll discovered the science of the Yugas.
To them, the working of the universe was slowly unravelled and the cosmic Brahma, and his creation, was unveiled. That is something that no mortal is supposed to obtain and these mere ascetics got it.
So from there on, they no longer remained mere mortals. They became something else. A part of the divine. Many of them, in their quest for the infinite left everything,even their body behind and attempted to seek the knowledge. But some of these divine, indistinguishable beings decided to impart this heavenly knowledge to us, mere mortals."
Master da turned to the students and addressed them directly now, by facing them.
"What I'll teach you here, today and after, will serve a purpose. Never question your purposes. Never question your duties. The world will collapse after a while. Not now, not tomorrow. In fact the collapse has already started. And remember..."
Master da bent, his hands behind him and said almost in a whisper,
"We're here to change it."
End of the First Conference.
The room was old, as old as the house was. Located in a bit tricky and hidden passage, which is one among the city's many structural landmarks and that even today remains as an identity of its own.
The six young men, strapping, smart Bengali youths who sat crosslegged on the floor were deeply in concentration, with eyes wide open, paying absolute attention to the man who was addressing them.
The man was old, most likely about 50 years of age, but showed no signs of any weakness, that most men his age would be expected to show, in him. He was dressed in the garb of a typical school master, who were locally referred to as master-moshai. With a white dhoti and kurta, he talked seamlessly to his pupils.
"Before you understand time," he said looking ardently at the boys faces before resuming, "you must forget what you've learnt and that which you are comfortable with what you think is the absolute function of the world."
"In our period now, in the '40s, time has very less significance in the world. At least in ours. For centuries, there have been high individuals whose rationale mind, endeavoured for the answers of the universe beyond mere religion and God. They were scorned. They were silenced. Outcasted. Like Darwin, Galileo, Copernicus for their addition to mankind's knowledge. But even before they came, we'd the same concepts already here. And they're still being studied. And will be continued to do so. Not just the invention of zero, but also surgery, medicines, warfare, politics and judiciary. We had sages, monks, enlightened beings who said it all.
But the sages, especially the ones who had spent years in mediation after completely severing ties to the material world and surrendering to the unexplainable Nothing, they were exposed to a whole new idea of being. A whole new existence." Master da saw the boys. They hadn't moved, so deep was their attention in what he'd to say to them. He continued.
"When the belief of one man who has or had been convinced of the world of only one possibility and when it's challenged by a rival, yet more understandable approach he loses his mind. He feels angry and he feels he's been betrayed. If the belief of anyone's self is questionable and even subject to discard, then he falls into the empty pit of self-doubt.
The wise sages, in their course with the Nothing, experienced power, never before seen in a mortal. They were able to travel to what happened, the happening and what would eventually happen. They were able to move without sight, sound and no movement of legs in the air, without food, water they survived just on air.
In this course of their asceticism, they'll discovered the science of the Yugas.
To them, the working of the universe was slowly unravelled and the cosmic Brahma, and his creation, was unveiled. That is something that no mortal is supposed to obtain and these mere ascetics got it.
So from there on, they no longer remained mere mortals. They became something else. A part of the divine. Many of them, in their quest for the infinite left everything,even their body behind and attempted to seek the knowledge. But some of these divine, indistinguishable beings decided to impart this heavenly knowledge to us, mere mortals."
Master da turned to the students and addressed them directly now, by facing them.
"What I'll teach you here, today and after, will serve a purpose. Never question your purposes. Never question your duties. The world will collapse after a while. Not now, not tomorrow. In fact the collapse has already started. And remember..."
Master da bent, his hands behind him and said almost in a whisper,
"We're here to change it."
End of the First Conference.
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