“A mirror shows what it wants to and not what you want it to. Neither is true”
From: The world of maya
For a long time, Brahma had a wiggling-worm of doubts, tunnelling through his mind. It had a multiplier effect, like amplifiers, due his four headed Avatar. Is it a boon or curse and if so, why? He had no one, to turn to and seek a clarification.
Setting aside, the seeking of clarification agenda, he focused his attention on one of the wiggling-worm doubt. Is Chitragupta a versatile salesman or creator of utter confusion? Probably, he might have an answer for the boon or curse dilemma!
Though in doubt, he did not want to play the trump card, as an opening move in the game. To his knowledge, no one could outwit or outthink Chitragupta, in finding a solution to arrest the tunnelling wiggly-worm. He soon realised, that prolonged meditative thinking only helped to push the solution to his doubts, far and farther away.
If confronted directly, Chitragupta may give answers that have to be first untangled and then end up getting more confused. His usual techniques of remotely accessing Chitragupta's mind, failed for some unknown reasons. Has Chitragupta installed firewalls around his brain? This added to his list of doubts to worry about, and the wiggling-worm started showing signs of vigorous agitation, protesting of overload.
Even Brahma had to abide by the Cosmic Code, that proscribed a further deep dive in to the mind of Chitragupta. He was well aware of the underlying principle – to prevent a deep state from sprouting, among the immortals.
He started with analysing the known information on Chitragupta's routine. The routine was just moving here and there and conversing with souls-in-waiting or waving his fingers through empty space or practicing mumbo-jumbo strings. Nothing stood out as a marker or bulb or a flag, except the mumbo-jumbo part. Chitragupta being Chitragupta, this might simply be a deception, to hide something, going helter-skelter in the mind. He paused to think - why this extraordinary concern about Chitragupta? Is it because he is his protégé?
Brahma’s admiration was based on solid facts – the nerds’ problem, the demi-gods’ dilemma, reasoning out the ominous cloud, expose’ on hightailing politicos and acumen to reveal a run of the mill human’s predicament down on earth, etc was a show of critical thinking and superb salesmanship. Though this process eliminated his doubt about the salesmanship angle, the one whether Chitragupta is a creator of confusion or not, remained.
Now, a new doubt emerged to feed the wiggly-worm regarding the source, his protégé was relying up on. Having sorted out some part of his doubt, he started looking for ways to solve the remaining part. He knew that a half-solved puzzle is as good as an unsolved puzzle.
At the end, he decided to pose certain hypothetical questions as doubts. He mused, “What would be the best course, to test Chitragupta, other than this? He was not averse or shy, to show some appreciation on his protégé. To gladden him, he would touch upon his shrewd intelligence. With decks satisfactorily cleared for action, Brahma hastened to organise a tough question bank.
Why, I have only four heads and not six or eight at least, if not more?
I am
puzzled, that you are asking me this question. Still, my answer is - symmetry
ensures balance and balance gives stability and stability leads to further
symmetry and the cycle repeats itself over and again. This is the inviolable,
circular rule (or tail tucking rule). One who has studied the Cosmic dynamics
will readily understand.
Any number of heads, be it four, six, or eight or more, if symmetrically positioned, is perfectly balanced. Then, why not nine! In this case, the head at the center has to be raised a bit to have unrestricted view. Though, this arrangement would be odd to look at! More than nine heads, would be a overcrowd, jostling for head room! All said and done, the benefit of increased thinking power is negated by the quantum of headache that will increase and rock them. The four heads, you are endowed with, is neither an ornament nor an award. They help in managing issues that arise from diametrically opposite and perpendicularly at loggerhead, all at once. So, to say, head-on collisions!
Brahma did not expect anything other than this circular answer!
The space is endless, and the celestial bodies are countless, why so?
The celestial bodies are mortal, and when they extinguish, eject voluminous star dust, elements and chunks. In a given instant there is a possibility of countless such explosions. To ease and disappear them away peacefully, adequate space is needed. If it is inadequate, secondary and tertiary explosive chain reactions will tear apart the space itself.
Why the countless celestial bodies? This could be safely attributed to the conundrum of creation or to the inherent nature of space, which always tries to occupy more volume! Though, it seemingly defies logic, the simple fact is, when more space is created to prevent it from tearing apart, then it has space to fill with more objects. Then the converse, also is true, axiom takes over. Taking a break, Chitragupta asked, “Am I anywhere near the answer to your question?”
Juggling with the dilemma, whether to accept or reject the answer, Brahma, changing the topic, asked this tricky question. “In all the dimensions, will time mean the same? If so why and if not why?
With your permission, I have to digress a little here and recall what great philosophers and scientists have said about time. "As of now, time is an illusion." One of them, even had gone to the extent of merging space and time into a single entity and bending space and time to accommodate his theory! To ease our conscience a little, he had left a side door open - it is relative and works fine within a frame of reference. The current consensus or absence of it is, a down-to-earth-feeling, that even this theory cannot be but an illusion. Constantly, new techniques and new thinkers are emerging, to prove or disprove the notion that time is an illusion. The time is a serious subject, having its own theories!
Though aware of Chitragupta’s propensity to be loquacious, Brahma felt, he had far exceeded himself in this current session.
Why is the age of Immortals like us, is in crores of year and not even a few hundred for mortal beings? Why different scales are being used? Is it not against fair play?
Without a pause, Chitragupta started, “The Cosmic rule, which states ‘Immortals having a zero potential to degrade, and thus preserve for infinite time, whereas the mortals, not so endowed, decay’. When counting is made by mortals, the age of Immortals will be beyond their comprehension. It is a fact, that the time taken by an Immortal to grasp and act, is less than 10^-43 of a second and for a mortal it is in the order of seconds. This is not due to the different scales but differing perception of the meaning of time. It is not a secret that some mortals, notwithstanding the fact that time is an illusion, have attempted to predict the lifespan and figure out the current age of Brahma! At this point, with a sneaky glance Chitragupta could see the worried faces of Brahma!
For the present, if we keep aside this different scale or difference in perception, we come face to face with an enigma. The existing vast difference among the Immortals. Some stay above all the dimensions and have insight into the past, present and future, with a little overlap into pre-past and post-future. Some others are proscribed to migrate within but are free to transcend down to any lower dimension. They could only peer into the fag end of past, the present and have limited access to the beginning of future, as a sort of a peace deal!
The moment Chitragupta stopped talking, Brahma surreptitiously checked the validity of his beyond-all-dimensions-access card. Though he wanted to check Chitragupta’s access card too, he thought better not to. As predicted by his protégé, his heads started spinning and pounding with headaches. He could not find an answer to this question - Am I an illusion, too?
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