The Seventh Night of Tantra, Chapter 17
Chapter 17
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´Palm leaves are kind of virtual archive that initiates and changes. Whatever happens, it is up to each and everyone of us, what will be recorded on a palm leaf as an action and reaction to certain life experiences. Records describe our life, but we have to live it ourselves, day by day, again and again. That is how we are writing the book of our own life.´
Legacy of Rishis
It was late in the afternoon and the ancient clock on the wall tick tocked loud into the silent darkened room somehow more than ever reminding them of the impermanence of all things, particularly the fast pace of human life.
Luke shifted nervously on the little stool in front of an old smiling monk named Gunjur Satchitananda who was supposed to tell him everything he wanted to know about his life. Anything. Including his future. He felt Reid´s hand on his, gently stroking him over his fingers. He didn’t have to do this, so why was he so nervous?
After they entered the small meeting room, Luke was asked to give him his date and time of his birth and a place where he lived at the moment. Then he left to find Luke´s records.
After about ten minutes he returned with the thick roll of leaves bundled up with twine. He told them they needed to wait for the interpreter, since the scriptures and the reading were made in ancient Tamil, the almost extinct language of southern India. He began to scroll through the leaves and took some of them out of the pack.
It was said that only ten percent of western people will get this information and travel to India to one of these libraries to have them read their destinies and mission in their life from these ancient scriptures. Everyone who desires it may go there and obtain the reading from the scriptures that contain information on his past, present and future. The records, called Naaids are written on palm leaves so hence the term palm leaves library.
There were many of these palm leave libraries around India, but in Bangalore, in the state of Karnataka, there was found probably the biggest and most well known one, and it was easily accessible by plane so it was clear choice for Luke and Reid.
Before their flight from Goa to Bangalore, Luke had millions of questions flying around in his mind. Can you imagine the state of your brain if you are given the possibility to ask anything you want to know in your life? Luke didn’t have only natural questions concerning his relationship with Reid and his health and his family but also more philosophical questions about the purpose of life.
Sooner or later any one of us could lay those questions out in their mind. What is the purpose of life on earth and the purpose of events in my life and most of all the purpose of my life? Why am I born to live and then die, why do I grow, learn, build, collect things or reach when I will have to leave everything here? I will leave the earth the same way I came, possessing nothing, not even my body, nothing but my mind, which is not even certain now.
Luke´s head was spinning again and in the same way as when he was doing his research earlier in Goa. They had found the information pretty fast thanks to Google and thanks to dozens of westerners who had already visited the libraries and given their reports on blogs and websites. Luke was in a trance at the existence of something like this in today’s´ technological and material world. He believed it instantly and he knew they were going there.
Luke learned that the origin of this library was rather mythical. The old legend says that the Indian wise man Bhrigu had the theurgist ability to foresee the destinies of thousands of people who were not even born yet, but who were predetermined to come to the Palm Leaves Library one day to find out about their lives. He wrote down his knowledge on a huge number of palm leaves in about 5000 BC and since then, the records have been copied on fresh palm leaves again and again over the centuries by initiated priests.
Luke slightly shivered again. He was being ridiculously nervous. What for? There was nothing he didn’t know from his past and he could have chosen not to hear about his future written on the goddamned palm leaf right in front of him.
Luke saw those incredibly tiny lines of writing in unknown symbols spreading all over the dark brown palm leaf about one millimeter thick. How could anyone read such small letters? His mind started to swirl. Perhaps he was nervous about having to replay his difficult past again, which was not always easy for him and he was probably scared a little to hear about his future. Who wouldn’t be?
Is this seriously true? Is my whole life described here on this scripture? How is it possible that I didn’t know about this before? I might have come earlier but yeah, maybe earlier wouldn’t be the right time. I found out about it here in India, well, it was revealed to me in this vision with Reid and when I think of it now, it was during our deep inner connection. Moreover, we had the same vision….Jesus…this can´t be just a coincidence…does coincidence exist at all? What if everything is given and planned for us in universe? Then what is the point of everything…
Now Luke was sitting here, feeling as if awaiting his final judgment, one that would seal everything and there was no choice of changing anything, because you have done things and you can´t go back to the past and change them. Is it going to be heaven or hell? For a moment Luke panicked inside and thought of leaving.
But Reid was here and Luke suddenly thought that he had already had so much hard horrible things happen in his life, and he trusted that the higher plan had some good prepared for him and that only good things were ahead of him.
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As they were waiting for the interpreter to arrive, Reid´ s mind was spinning too. Although he tried not to show it and make Luke even more nervous, he was bit uncomfortable too. He certainly wasn’t keen on hearing about Luke´s hard times because it hurt him too much and he didn’t like this kind of pain.
Before he had met Luke, he would just switch off his emotions and close the lid to his heart but now he couldn’t do that. Luke was part of him and he was part of Luke and they were partners and he learned to feel and experience his feelings concerning anything that involved Luke. Luke has become his life and Luke was inseparable from his heart. Therefore the pain was inevitable but it was worth having Luke beside and living with him.
When they found what this library was about, Reid was a little reluctant to the whole idea of having your past and future read to you. After all he was still the skeptical and rational force in this relationship. Finally he agreed to go with Luke because one look at him and he knew Luke was decided. Of course he would only accompany him, because in no way would he want to know everything about his own life or future. No, he was not that kind of guy.
He might have dove right into the tantric stuff, but only because he was the one who had the control and it was about practicing control and you were the one who decided how much you open yourself and how far you let it go. And it was about what he loved the most, finding pleasure with Luke and it brought them closer. But this, he thought, would be too much for him.
And he definitely didn’t want to hear when Luke would die, because this is the one question that comes to mind when you hear about oracles. What if they tell me that something bad is going to happen to me? And if so, do you want to know? And why would you? If it is in your future than you cannot change it and after you find out, then this experience is a part of that destiny upon which you base your deeds. Would you do things otherwise had you not known?
Reid believed that since you have your own will you can always change your life, otherwise the concept of free will would be useless. Therefore, for him, oracles and prophecies were useless. Moreover, and he wouldn’t say this to Luke, but the simple math he did in his head reasoned if they paid 1500 rupees for a session and Gunjur had 6 sessions per day, that was around 45 000 Rupees per week, times four which is 180 000 Rupees in a month which was definitely more than some Indians would earn in their whole life. It certainly looked like a good business.
Reid´s doubts were interrupted when the interpreter arrived and the Hindu monk smiled once again taking the scriptures in his hands carefully, looking directly at Luke, raising question in his eyes, if he wished that Reid stay.
“Yes, please, I want him to stay.” Luke clutched Reid´s hand and looked at him, surprised how scared his voice sounded.
“But only for the first part Luke, I…. I´m sorry but I wouldn’t handle the information of the exact time and place of your death…I…I just don’t want to know…”
Luke nodded and kissed Reid on his cheek. Gunjur straightened his back, put his hands on the scriptures, narrowed his eyes and it seemed his mind entered some sort of trance as he began the reading.
A/N:
Rishi denotes the composers of Vedic hymns, also according to post-Vedic tradition the rishi is a "seer" to whom the Vedas were "originally revealed" through states of higher consciousness.
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