“I think they are gone… they have moved toward the valley…” he said looking at the two in the room who sighed a breath of relief and got up from their crouching position and sat on the chairs they had previously occupied, “Now… can you explain what’s going on?”
“First let us sort out the names I call you with… I will call you Chaitanya…” she said looking at the guy with his face and I will call him Prince… what should I call you?”
“You can call me Chaits… that’s what my friends call me…” he said with a smile and she agreed.
“Ok… Chaits…” Chaitanya began, “Let me tell you from the beginning… have you heard about multiverse in Ramayan?”
“Yes – I have…”
“Good… that should make it easy for you to understand what I am going to tell you now… Kakbhushundi relates this to Garud in the Uttara Kanda of Ramcharitmanas… that’s what you must have read…”
“Yes – you are correct in your inference. But what has this got to do with us?”
“I am coming to it… even I read about this multiverse and wanted to check if it was real… I belong to one of the multiverses which are present and I am a scientist… in multiverses, there is a time gap – it could be almost 50 thousand years ahead or behind your time… fortunately, my time and your time – it is different but not that heavy – we could be different by about say a hundred years or so… the time in my universe is ahead of your time…”
Chaits looked at Chaitanya as if he was hearing some nonsense.
“I know this will seem weird to you… however, you will have to believe me… even the people in my universe thought I was crazy to believe in this theory and try and work a system which will connect the multiverses… I have been on it for more than 5 years… finally, I thought I had cracked it. So I decided to try my equipment out… nobody wanted to try it nor anyone wanted to volunteer for this… so I decided to try the equipment on myself first… that equipment is something that looks like a simple LCD projector from your age… it creates a portal to pass through to another universe in this multiverse…”
“I am sorry – but this is difficult to follow…”
“Let’s say I belong to Universe A… one day I dared and put the equipment ON… it created a portal… I almost entered that portal but stepped back when I thought – if this worked – how am I going to get back to the universe I belong?”
Even Vishakha was now listening to this intently and wanted to know more…
“After a lot of thinking and after few days – I decided to create a mini-version of that equipment which I could carry with me to open the portals… the original equipment was about the size of this room… I worked hard and finally I had the equipment in size of a projector which I could easily carry… I put ON this equipment and when the portal opened up – I entered it along with the equipment so that I could return… that portal opened up in Universe B – that’s where Prince Chaitanya is from… I was roaming around when the soldiers found me and looked at me wearing these clothes which were not known to them… however they bowed to me and led me to the courtroom in the palace…”
He looked at the attention he was getting as he related what his experience was, smiled and continued…
“I think you are confused a bit… let me explain in as simple way as I can… Do you believe in Soul?”
“Yes – I believe in Soul which is immortal and our Soul has donned this body in this birth for some reason.” Vishakha quipped in… Chaitanya looked at Chaits who nodded his belief.
“Ok. What I have understood is… there are millions and millions of souls in the upper realm which we don’t understand. These souls come to the Earth and get into a body they desire to complete or correct their ‘Karm’ or maybe seek more knowledge than what they already have… however… one soul in one body does not match with my experiments… what my theory is… there is one Soul somewhere in the upper realm and it has fragments which descend on various Earths in this multiverse… meaning one fragment is me, one fragment is Prince Chaitanya and one fragment is you… and like us there are various Chaitanyas in this multiverse… I can say about you, me and the Prince for I have met you… we are on our respective Earths in this multiverse trying to get our ‘Karm’ exalted or seek certain knowledge through our respective experiences or maybe we did something wrong in our previous birth and are here to correct that bad ‘Karm’… our ‘Karm’ is calculated in collective way averaging the ‘Karm’ from all the fragments spread across this multiverse and when we depart the fragment attaches back to the original Soul…”
“Ooh! This is heavy… and that too coming from a scientist who should believe in science rather than Adhyatma…” Chaits was stunned with the input he was hearing.
“Chaits – our ancient texts and sages were wise and they already had cracked the theory behind all this as well I am sure they had cracked a way to travel freely in this multiverse… I am just a beginner… anyways coming back to what I was explaining… let’s consider that I am from Universe A and I am a scientist who the world in my universe thinks is mad for I believe in this theory and was working to crack it… I managed to build equipment that opens the portal to travel into the multiverse… knowing that people will not believe me, I took the decision to travel through the portal rather than asking someone else to do so… I travelled through the portal and landed up in a jungle somewhere – I was not sure if it was a different universe or I had cracked teleportation…”
“Wow! I hope you would rather have invented Teleportation – it would have helped me – I am always late for my office…”
“That too I will – one day… then I will return and help you with it… then you can easily teleport to your office and back…” Chaitanya laughed and continued, “The jungle was serene, cool, calm and soothing… I sat there on a rock and I don’t know when I fell asleep… when I opened my eyes, there were soldiers, ancient looking soldiers around me who were looking at me with disbelief… more so because my clothes were something they had not seen… they seemed odd to them as they seemed odd to me… but they bowed to me not knowing that I wasn’t their Prince and they escorted me to the city of Amravati and to the palace of the Prince.”
“Oh! Wow! How did you know what they spoke for I believe they either would have been speaking in Sanskrit or Vedic…”
“That’s another thing I understood – when you travel through the portal – you automatically gain the knowledge of the language that is spoken in that place… it was Vedic which was being spoken in that universe where I had landed… one more thing I understood was that times, eras and eons were different in each universe – there might be a universe which is prehistoric or may be about a thousand years ahead of our time… for example Vishakha belongs to Vedic period and I belong to a time maybe about a hundred or two ahead of your time – people follow different calendar in different universes and it is difficult to point the time period according to your own calendar…”
“Hmm… this is going to be a too much of download for me – my head already is swimming by what you are telling me…” Chaits sighed, “Anyone hungry? It is almost lunch time…”
All agreed that they were feeling hungry and Chaits ordered for food not risking going out lest those hefty soldiers were still out there… they had their lunch quietly – both Chaits and Vishakha trying to digest the information they had received along with food…
Chaitanya looked at them after the meal, “Ready for the next part of the happenings?”
Chaits and Vishakha looked at each other and then at Chaitanya and nodded their yes…
“When I entered the palace I was again greeted with bows of reverence and at the same time everyone looked at the clothes I was wearing… they obviously were odd as per the times they were in… then it happened – I came face to face with Prince Chaitanya… we both looked at each other in wonder… we looked exactly the same – same features, same face, same gait – the only difference was in the build… obviously he had been trained to build his body for wars ahead and I was a simple scientist from another universe. He was as curious as I was, to know what and how… he took me into his section where he rested and spent his free time… that’s where we became friendly – he had the same expression as you have on you when I was relating the theory of multiverse and my research as well as my invention. Then knowing that it was me who was him since we were the fractions of same Soul… he became friendly with me. I wanted to return to my universe but he insisted me staying a bit longer and to attend his wedding with the Princess of Satisar…”
Chaits looked at Vishakha in wonder – if she was to marry Prince Chaitanya what was she doing along with Chaitanya in this universe…
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