Those Burnt Gashes

Tea-Seller was explaining the mystery behind Kelu's wife's burnt gashes. Kelu's wife had got them on her body parts.Although the gashes had healed,he was astonished and surprised, wanting to know how it so happened when his wife was physically present in the hospital. Many talented and reputed doctors and medical researchers were deputed by the rich businessman whose wife was murdered,to find out if those aliens had any hand in the crime. Now people thought some aliens might have raped and killed her. When Tea-Seller told them the exact reason behind the woman's murder,the police scolded him for his irresponsible behaviour. But the businessman followed the Tea-Seller's suggestions half-heartedly and found out that the two students from abroad David and Jeff living opposite Kelu's house were involved in the crime.They had escaped to Switzerland and their parents were politically powerful and the bereaved businessman had to give up his chase legally.He had wasted a lot of money in vain.

Kelu arrived early one morning knowing that the Master would be making tea.As he tapped the door, the reply came,"The tea is ready. Push the door and get in.There are muska chaska biscuits as well. My poor little kitten...!"

Kelu entered into the ramshackle tea-stall. Tea-Seller offered him a seat on a wooden board.They were soon enjoying tea and biscuits.Vanita was observing a fast against the wishes of her husband. She came with a big dented aluminium jug.She began to sip hot coffee from it.She loved coffee more than anything else.Kelu noticed that the Master was serious and sombre.After tea,Tea-Seller began to break some tiles with a small hammer.Kelu wondered what hammering the good strong tiles into fragments meant.He mustered courage and asked,"Why hammer those innocent tiles... ?Master..." Tea-Seller's eyes were burning coals.He said in an angry hard voice,"Don't you know? Don't worry..You will understand tomorrow..I'm not revengeful..But I have to be negative and destructive sometimes...I can't help doing so.I want to save my children and chastise and also destroy the bodies of their enemies..." Tea-Seller had broken and fragmented a large number of hard costly tiles. He and his wife had bought those costly tiles and had carried them to their place from the nearby go-down.

Next came a cartload of watermelons.People began to gather but news took air that the Roghorians were coming into the Earth's atmosphere loaded with deadly weapons unknown to mankind. All television channels were abuzz with the news of scientists everywhere in the world in a state of panic and terror.

The world was going to be completely robbed by the Raghorian monsters of its female population

,birds,animals,gold,costly stones and useful minerals.They were also determined to dispose of the petroleum reserves..

Mahavatar came out of his shanty holding a brilliant sword and started butchering the watermelons.He was shouting abusive slangs and dirty piercing bullet like words at the poor little watermelons.

Mahavatar's locality was small and a few only cared for him and took his words for granted. Most people called him the mad shoe-mender.Others called him Parsua or mad old magician.

Tea-Seller was pouring with sweat and trembling with rage and indignation. The next morning people saw the photos of the mad shoe-mender in newspapers hammering tiles and butchering watermelons..A celebrated writer came out into the street and shouted:"Arrest the mad old man...! He is spreading rumours and misguiding the masses.

In the evening,the television channels came out with the news of the alien attacks on people on the beaches of Honolulu.It was announced that some aboriginal people of Honolulu had first destroyed their spaceship, shattering the gigantic winged framework into small fragments and bits and after that they had captured and killed the tall aliens. The greatest mystery was how some aboriginal men,women and children had managed to destroy tall human like creatures equipped with sophisticated weapons and techniques.Few outsiders knew the spiritual excellence the indigenous natives had reached,!always avoiding exposure and publicity. An American lady journalist came in contact with some original natives of Hawaii.The natives couldn't give any correct information but they took her to an old native who lived with his two elderly sons. The old native refused to give any information. But some progressive young men said that the old man and his sons had been pounding stones with hammers into smaller parts all night.They also told them that the old man and his sons had butchered a huge number of watermelons.A detailed account of aliens attacking and killing people came.Their gigantic spaceship that rested on Mount Kaala was now lay in huge heaps of debris.

A young journalist came to Tea-Seller the next morning and tried to coax him into saying that he had a role in destroying the gigantic Roghorian spaceship and that he had agents in Honolulu as elsewhere in the world. He said to the old man,"An old native in a village in Honolulu named Konala and his two sons Kai and Oke have had been hammering stones into pieces and mercilessly slashing watermelons just like you here...Master, do you have any contact with them...?Do you know them..? I think you have some understanding with them too..Or maybe you are their leader?"

Without giving an answer to the journalist,Tea-Seller said,"Kelu, give some special tea to this friend of mine? He came here to take an interview with an underlying desire to taste tea that I make and serve people...."

"Oh my God...Mahavatar....! You could read my thoughts..! How wonderful..?"

"Call me Tea-Seller..I am comfortable with me being a seller of tea.."

"My Lord ...I can't call you Tea-Seller..I can call you the Almighty Tea-Seller..." the young man was crying loudly.

"What happened..?Young Sir.. ?" asked a passerby.

"Whoever comes here cries....." said Kelu.

Tea-Seller rose to his feet and I said,"Kelu...the wife lover should tell you if he has any secrets about me to tell...

As days and weeks and months passed on,the Roghorian King Rabadon sent more and more spaceships loaded with weapons deadlier than atomic bombs and nuclear ballistas and bazookas..The Governments of the world got united to save their Earth.Billions and billions of dollars were invested in the invention of arms and weapons that might successfully withstand and repel all kinds of attacks and attackers from outer space..At the same time there arose groups of courageous men and women who thought the power of the Spirit was bound to be invincible.It was the last means to maintain the existence of Man on Earth. These men and women appeared to be of indefatigable willpower and inexhaustible determination stemming from the Spirit.

A year passed and the American scientists kept maintaining that the safety of the earth was in question.The absolutely intrepid and men and women of boundless courage and spiritual strength began a mission to rob the masses of their baseless fears and apprehensions...

Kelu was evolving spiritually under the guidance of his Master Mahavatar. The Master often made fun of his dearest disciple Kelu calling him "our wife lover."

Kelu was fortunate that his Master didn't try to frighten him or scold him. So his mind was full of questions about life and the universe and then what lay beyond them.

Now Kelu's wife Kamla was fully all right but Kelu always told him not to stir outdoors and alerted her to the danger from the Roghorian King Rabadon who it seemed was burning with the fire of revenge. He had suffered incalculable losses in terms of life and property. Thirteen thousand spaceships from Roghor had crashed and disappeared before entering the Earth's atmosphere.King Rabadon was roaring with revenge.He had sacrificed a number of his queens and concubines to a blood--thirsty Goddess to avenge the defeats and humiliations mankind had heaped upon him and him and his cruel mean

Generals.

"Master,I still am unable to understand how my wife received those gashes on planet Roghor when her body was on Earth..." said Kelu.

Tea-Seller was annoyed,"How many years will you take to understand a simple truth...?Couldn't you see how Konala,his two sons Kai and Oke and I together destroyed their most powerful and safest spaceship a year before.Have you ever gone through Saint Sai Baba's life history? Let me tell you a story. Once the people of his village Shirdi became victimised by cholera.The kind Saint Sai Baba captured the spirit of the disease cholera and having a bagful of wheat ground into flour,transmitted it into the same wheat flour. The flour was sprinkled round the settlement of the village and cholera stayed there trapped.It couldn't enter into the holy village Shirdi..There is another true story.Baba Neem Karoli had two staunch devotees and they were an old couple.Their only son was fighting in a war in which whoever was with him succumbed to the enemy bullets but he(the old couple's son) survived those bullets miraculously.

One night night Baba reached the couple's cottage and asked for shelter for the night. The old couple's joy knew no bounds. They gave him food and for his sleep they offered him a rope cot. The couple noticed that instead of sleeping Baba kept turning this side and that side all night. In the morning,the most kind Saint offered the couple a neatly folded blanket which was very very heavy.He asked the couple to throw the blanket into the nearby river. Although the couple wondered what the folded blanket contained,they did what they were told to do.Later on,their son arrived and told them that he was the only soldier left out of the entire company of soldiers. Then it transpired that Baba Neem Karoli had drawn all the bullets towards his body so that the couple's son might not die.Kelu do you now understand how things can happen in the world of the Spirit.... ?"

Kelu looked at his Master and was full of puzzlement.

Everything that is visible has its subtle invisible presence. A disease is an unseable force. Poison is

an invisible force. Sex is an invisible force. Compassion is an invisible force.Love,hatred,

anger,murder cruelty,words,holy texts,

holy places,rivers,mountains,iron has its spirit,gold

light and darkness and all other things are merely

unseable forces..."

"What you mean to say,my Master,is everything has a connection with everything else..Does cold have a subtle existence? I think it does have one. What is going to be your next mission Master?"

"The Roghorian King Rabadon and his officers are torturing whatever unfortunate young girls, women

and other women officers and workers. We have to rescue those women and bring them to our planet.

Ludvig and Freja have been entrusted with this task.

You might bother about the means of transport because some people are not wise to the extent to understand that the subtle presence can be changed into the concrete.All gods and goddesses are spirits and they too have different attributes or likes and dislikes.

You always think that I am your Master. This hurts me the most. Ignorant men and women in high places are eager to be given respect and prestige. What I expect from you is love---pure unalloyed love and nothing else. Ludvig,Freja,Ebba,Wilma,Konala,his sons Kai and Oke and my other brothers and sisters in each and every country are all equals;we are held together by love because we have discovered our togetherness which is invisible but indivisible and inseparable. Only fools like Rabadon and his officers are fighting for supremacy over others. All my brothers and sisters everywhere are the reflections of the same Spirit...Our food habits may be different from country to country. ..Or dress habits but the Oneness I am talking about is unlimitedly One."

"My Master I have been experiencing some changes inside me. And I am sure that is happening because of you...But one thing appears strange to me. If the Roghorian women are brought here,who will marry them?"

"Why do think men alone have the right to marry women not taller than they are...?"

Vanita who was stoking the fire laughed a little more loudly than she usually did...

"Good night..Master..I have understood the mystery behind the gashes Kamla received. But I have a question about this to ask..."

Tea-Seller said,"Good night My heart....!"