Science fiction. The master who knew all

 

Science fiction. The master who knew all

It almost never occurred to me that I would be entrusted to a master at the age of 15, when I already had a strong sense of personal likings and resentments. Yet I had to surrender before this verdict of my parents who had been dealing with the banalities of their own lives. And they desperately needed someone to be offered as a sacrifice to add some lively moments to their otherwise lifeless world.

And without assuming, I am sure, you would have understood by now, who this someone was. It was I, their salvation from their banal lives. Whether or not it will be so, that is another matter, but for now they had something to be satisfied with and focus their minds on. 

A recreational predisposition of a belief that they can somehow not be happy, no matter how hard they tried.  And by making a self appointed master, the guardian of my every action and every thought, they had offered themselves a temporary hope that everything would end well in the end. Even if that means sacrificing another human being for its sake.

That should give you a fair idea about my parents and their ability to surmise future prospects of their happiness by adopting a masquerading technique, where they always manage to deceive themselves into believing that their superfluous need for merriment and joviality is their right that nobody can prevent them from accessing. And it was this belief that persuaded them to happily give me away to my master, who happens to be someone I have neither known nor seen before. You can guess my emotional state that I was cast into when they declared this to me right in front of my master. Without offering me time or a thought to spare on this command just issued by my parents. It was almost like news about me, and I had no idea about it, and I was told to accept it as it is.

I wanted to say no, I wanted to protest. But in my culture that will be considered too vulgar and too uncivilised on my part. Therefore, I go to my room and begin packing my luggage. Where I placed just a few important items and in 45 minutes I was standing in front of my master and my parents, who from the look in their faces, appeared to be his yes-man and yes-woman like disciples. And to keep their master satisfied they did not hesitate to offer me and my hopes as a sacrifice.

And I stood there with the look of the sacrificial animal who somehow instinctively knows that these are the last moments of the freedom and life it will get to experience. And the moment my master stood up and my parents offered him their respects. He instructed me with his eyes, and like a sheep I began following him. Wherever he went, I went there, where he stopped, I stopped there, wherever he waited I was meant to wait there, and after few hours we arrived at a place where everything looked orderly, where everything was placed where perfection would have placed it, and then we both stood near a huge wooden gate. After a few moments a man appeared before us and asked us to accompany him. He made us stand before a tall and mighty looking wooden gate.

We waited at the gate, while sometimes looking at each other and quite often scaling the height of the gate with our eyes. And the gate easily stood taller than 60 feet.

Then someone opened the tall and mighty gate from inside and led us into a hall that was well furnished and artfully decorated with a lot of things. There was something for everyone to please his/her eyes and mind as well. And I got busy pleasing my eyes followed by my mind. Then someone whose description can be compared with a warrior, a scientist, and a philosopher. Someone who had seen what nobody else had seen or would ever see, at least that is what his outward appearance suggested to me. He occupied one of the main chairs, and then my master sat in the chair next to him. And I waited for my master to indicate to me with his eyes to occupy the chair next to him.

He did not disappoint me and I did not disappoint him either. I immediately obeyed his instruction, and in a few seconds I had occupied the chair indicated by my master.

The person who had occupied the main chair examined both of us; and as he was examining me from my head to toe, he indicated something to my master with his eyes. My master left his chair and briskly walked towards him. He whispered something into his right ear, my master nodded his head. 

He prepared to leave the hall, and as a mark of respect he bowed before this person with his folded hands. As he was slowly walking towards the main gate, he turned right, then walked towards me and said, 

“From now onwards he will be your master. I was only supposed to bring you here. Now you are his responsibility. Your parents have been informed about it.”

I thanked him and as he was about to cross the main gate, I wished him good bye and returned to the hall. Everything had been happening so quickly that I had no time to react, therefore I accepted everything I was being offered. And now I had been offered a new master! 

“So, you are the young man I am supposed to train. By the way, what do you like.?”

His question came as a surprise to me because I was not expecting it so soon. But he had asked it and now I had to answer it. And this shall not be the seminal act of my abrupt dealings with my actual master. It was just the beginning of what I had to get used to as long as I lived here.

I instantly replied, “ I like that painting!”

“Why did you say painting, why not something else?”

Asked my actual master and I replied with equal effortlessness.

“I pointed to the painting, my great master; because it compliments your personality and reflects your taste. Among all the paintings hanging in this hall, only this painting bears multiple colours, it also has few abstract angles, few very clear and vivid expressions too. And it is different from all other paintings. That is why I liked it, great master! ”

He filled in a deep breath and responded lightly,

“Alright, and that is a good observation!”

With the last syllable of the word “Observation” still pouring from his mouth, he left his place and asked me to accompany him. I followed as I had followed the person whom I had mistook for my real master. 

We must have crossed around 1500 steps, when he asked me to stop and he turned left,  I followed him there. He stopped and asked me to kneel, I knelt, he placed his hand on my head and everything around us vanished- The walls, the rooms, the paintings, the carpets, the furniture, even the mighty gate; and we stood on bare ground with mountains on all sides, and the sound of wolves echoed back from the mountains. And as soon as these echoes reached my ears I felt terrified. Because I was already trying to deal with what became of the reality that surrounded us from every side just a few moments ago. I was really feeling terrified.

Then my master asked me to walk beside him on his left side.

I once again obeyed, and I was so terrified that I was constantly looking at the mountains, Because I was afraid they might disappear as well. And if they did, then I had to believe something was really wrong, either with the place or my master who was behind all these magical disappearances of real worlds.

But the mountains maintained their position and they did not move at all. At least that is how it seemed so far.

Finally he asked me to kneel once again, and he placed his hand over my head. The moment his hand touched my head, I knew something terrible was about to happen once again.

And now we were somewhere where everything was dark. It was not night, there was no smoke, there was no light, but it was dark, strangely dark. As if it were a world where light was not required because this world did not belong to the light. So, the mountains had vanished and now I had more reasons to feel scared.

Before I could express my fears and astonishment to my master, he felt it was time he consoled me a bit with his words, “This is the world where nothingness resides. Here time has no domain and light cannot travel here because there are no dust particles that are needed to create the effect of light. It is the purest realm of all. From where everything begins, and when needed, everything ends at the command of this realm. And it is here I shall train you. In peace, with no interference from time and no stunning effects of light as well.

And you do not have to be scared, because in the purest realm, everything is harmless. In nothingness every desire that is infected by vice gets absorbed by some mysterious element that turns their host into a being who only thinks good thoughts. And whoever enters this realm, is not chased by death, because death becomes meaningless and unnecessary in realms where there is no time.

So, shall we begin your training?”

I did not understand his philosophical explanation, and without paying much heed to what he had said, but not at all ignoring what he had said with so much care, I asked him what it was that I was supposed to get trained on; and why me?

The master looked at me and pointed in one of the directions, although every direction appeared to be the same. And he asked me a simple question, “what do you see?”

I answered with equal simplicity, “Nothing. It is dark!”

And then my master answered, “to see through the darkness is what real scientists should be able to do. Because it is easy to see and perceive things in light. But an innovative scientist is able to see and perceive things even in the darkness. And under my patronage you shall master the skills of the universe and know what nobody has known about the universe so far. You will become the only person in the universe who shall know everything about gravity in its absoluteness, and with it you can travel not between galaxies but across many universes too. I, and many others believe you are born with something that shall guide you to unravel all its mysteries.

In addition to this, you shall also know other secrets of the universe too. And I am glad to be your master. It is very rare that masters like me get to mentor pupils like you, and if I shall accomplish this job with devotion and expected success, I shall have fulfilled my purpose of life.”

I felt deeply touched, and my master’s generosity and his belief that I was capable enough to learn such a complex form of force that manages the universe. Humbled me, and this time I did not kneel because he ordered me, but only because my humility ushered me to do so. And this time when he touched my head, nothing vanished. As such in darkness I had not seen anything at all, so it was unlikely that if something had vanished I would realise it.

But one thing did vanish. All my fears and hesitations; and thus began my training. And I am joined by someone whom my master admires a lot. She is exceptionally brilliant; and somehow she always understands gravity before I even feel its pull. But, like the master said, I have a gift, and when it comes to that, neither my master nor his brilliant pupil know what I predict. Because I make these predictions based on genuine scientific innocence which has not been influenced by preconceived notions on the subject. And I only seek knowledge about gravity not to control the universe, but to be able to control my own mind, that always feels dragged into the realm where all secrets of gravity reside. All of them! 

I sometimes feel, when I was born, someone from that realm, where all gravity originates from. Had kissed me long before someone from my family could. And for 6 years I used to dream about a realm that puzzled me, sometimes scared the hell out of me, but gradually it began to fascinate me, because I realised it was telling me something, and just to me. I called her the energy that whispers to me secretly. Reminds me of the movie titled : The Horse Whisperer.

Horse whisperer movie

However, there is one fact that should not be ignored. Without a master any pupil, no matter how brilliant or gifted, would be like a butterfly with no wings. And I do not want to be this butterfly. And I am glad I was able to find a master who believes in me and wants to train me by sharing his vast knowledge with me. And that too in company of his most brilliant pupil, who understands the gravity related concept long before I can even feel its pull.

We have spent 2 years with our master now, and we both are working on a project that will lay the foundation of space travel without fears and without limits. Because we have found something about gravity that will help humans to fly to new worlds not in lightyears, but just in years. And if this can be accomplished by someone long after I and my master’s brilliant student do not exist in the universe, we shall be happy that someone who was human, finally did manage to reach the realm of the Gods. 

And if someday humans go there, they should not forget my master. Because it was when he touched my head, that I felt the magic of being guided by a patron. And for this touch of care and love I shall remain indebted to him even in the realm of the dead.

To know what all I learned from my generous and extremely intelligent master and his brilliant pupil, please refer to the science fiction novel, They Loved in 2075. This is a science fiction romance novel, where a boy falls in love with a beautiful woman and they have to deal with endless difficulties and hurdles created by self aware machines who want to keep them separated. But the boy wages a war against the intelligent and self aware machines and manages to rescue his beloved. But she has been interacting so much with self aware machines that she is unable to emote like humans. And this is a major barrier he should come face to face with and somehow make her love him with her heart. Like a woman and not a machine.

To know whether or not he succeeds in this pursuit of love, where life goes through bitter experiences of reality and deception. Please refer to the scifi novel, They Loved in 2075.

And before I conclude this blog post, let me share something from the didactic analogies of my kind master, “There is always a better way! And when gravity was born, order in the Universe was born with it and only through it! And human relationships that have no concept of gravity in them always end up as blackholes, and as a universe with primordial existence.”