Insider information is that, such a one-to-one is held only in extreme distressed condition. The insider conveniently remained silent on who could be the stressed party? Usually the deliberations on one-to one basis come to the open, if one of them speaks out. In this case who that will be and on what it will be?
Not to intrude in to their privacy, the Onlooker, the neighbourhood spook, moved out of earshot. However he was not sure whether the 1000 ton gold lying buried could be the topic of discussion, as Muser is known to get worked up on any thing and everything.
To pass time, the Onlooker decided to participate with them in an imaginary panel discussion. He mentally paraphrased the essence of their animated discussion like this:
If you are a godman, know the rich historical fact from the past, have worriless nights to spend in dreamland, have gullible following –public or otherwise- wake up! You have a one (ton) in a bullion chance to get in to the media of a different kind -print and electronic.
Now, what all you have to do is this- stare at the lenses and mouth your words in to the mikes. To soup up the affair a bit, read out (extempore will be befitting the occasion) a prepared statement like “…the digging must be completed by such and such a day or otherwise the gold treasure will turn in to a heap of ash..” for the golden moment.
Dear godman you have packed enough ominous punch and rest assured, the rest will be taken care of by your legion of gullible followers. Some time back, somebody said that “The gullibility in the population is proportional to their predilection to the sayings of the ‘past-seers and dream merchants”.
Later this population will be joined by or headed by the semi-sane ‘…….dom’ and start digging vigorously. The purposes might be devious – the gullible population trying to bury their frustrations and the semi-sane ‘…….dom’ to bury their credibility in a deeper niche. Thus, when science mixed with ‘spirit’ is a dangerous and heady cocktail, spinning the world of the gullible out of control.
At the end of the digging, if the godman’s idea was to create a big reservoir for storing rain water- he has succeeded rather admirably in his ambition. Alternatively, if he was aiming for a cut in the treasure – he ends up with a bleeding nose and bruised reputation.
Coming to the gullible public diggers, if physical fitness was their objective, after this exercise they will walk like Tarzans. As far as the semi-sane ‘…….dom’ is concerned, if their aim was to test out gadgets and machinery's, their objectives would have been met.
The third party to the effort, the rulers – if their ruse was to divert the attention of the subjects, they succeeded the most and got enough breathing space to take the stream & steam out of detractors – Callgate, Coalgate and Tollgate, spending public money to entertain the public.
At the end, the Onlooker had a doubt whether his summary of the discussion, in absentia, was factual. With this great agitating in his mind, he decided to wait for the official briefing from one of them.
When Muser & bystander concluded their huddle, they came out with the following joint communiqué:
“We hope not that a nuclear sadhu next comes out with a vision that “such and such a place has so many tons of buried uranium and plutonium in ready to use condition. It has to be dug out with in a specific time frame or else volcanoes will erupt, rivers will dry up and earth/sea/moon-quakes will gobble up our country…
We do hope that the gullible public and the semi-sane ‘…….dom’ remember the earlier golden ash story and do nothing about this nuclear sadhu’s latest revelations. We are not asking too much, any way all of us do remember the adage ‘once bitten twice shy’ very well.
The only saddened lot could be the financial wizards – if the earlier dream would have come true the gold could have immensely benefited the economy in near and short terms. If the second dream also had become fruitful, the nuclear & power sector might have got such a fillip – near, short, medium, long and very long terms. In a joint statement the nuclear lobby and the Power lobby might be tempted to point out to the fact that the half-life of these radio active materials out run generations. It would have been prudent to start dig…. with out ignoring the “active” revelation”
The Onlooker felt happy that his wait was worth, in tons of gold or plutonium, after hearing the furious details of the huddled conversation which matched more or less with his surmise.
The ending punch lines are : The elated Onlooker coined a catchy slogan and said it aloud a few times , for the feel of it. The slogan ran like this - "Lure and lode sure make a hole .. jolly or holy"
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