Back to the Future: The Dimensionless Boundaries

By Sahil Sood

Back to the future takes us back and forth to a wholly magical and technologically advanced world where individuals are capable of attaining the power of seeing the future through the re¬flection of their minds. Millenniums and centuries ago there lived a group of people who mastered the art of predicting the future and started using it for the goodwill of the society. The era blossomed where people lived harmoniously in a techno culturally advanced society.
Over the years, this practice grew enormously and a time came when it was being used as a powerful weapon for its own benefits. To avoid the devastation that this advancement could havoc and also to ensure that it does not go to the wrong hands, the great sage created a different world for these positive and super eminent people to continue the practice in a different land where it was impossible to reach humans. Therefore, such a land gets created that is not only rich in culture but technologically hundreds of centuries advanced than the existing world.
The vow of the sage however brings the future generation king of Manasvin to the current world and there gets born the seed of transition between the two worlds.
What will happen when the two worlds (One techno culturally advanced and other with self-centered interests) meet? How do people embark on the technology that is centuries ahead of their time?
The book explains the need of advancement of innovation through the mindset of self-indulgent people whose egoism is larger than the real dimensions of the world.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Notion Press
• Release date: Jun 1, 2014
• ISBN: 9789383808083

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Chapter I

Three Hundred and Four BCE (304 BCE)

We have been living in the secret society for many millenniums and this world in front of my eyes today has become completely unpredictable, and has shattered into pieces with the greed of acquisition, overpowering those minds which at one point were as pure as those people, said King Devadatta to Maharishi (Great Seer) Bharadvaja overlooking the North West direction and straight into the sky. King Devadatta has been considered as a born genius who, with his power of words, has influenced his empire to maintain the foundation of peace and prosperity for the society and future generations. The entire kingdom has paid high regards to the king and considers him their successor at the small age of nine years, when he saved their entire kingdom from the powers of the outside world. These brave acts have been regular since then, leaving people with no doubts that they have the right king and successor for the throne which at that time was occupied by his father, one of the greatest ever sage of his time.

We are the part of another world now and Manasvin-bhumi is waiting for you, Bharadvaja folds his hands, bows down to the king and requests him, this world is going with the transformation every few human years and it will continue to do so till pride overpowers the eternal souls. That was the reason why we chose to migrate to the land which mortals regards as the land of illusions. Our ancestors have been known for saving people’s lives and creating awareness about peace which brings prosperity in this world, but this may not be the right time for us to focus our energy to bring willful change.

No Maharishi, this was needed many centuries ago. If we keep on neglecting this, the time will come when everything will be destroyed. People will use these skills for their own benefit, and this unique accomplishment will become a curse on this land. This world, the King opens his hands wide to the sky and expresses, this is my very own land where all our ancestors were born, and it is very crucial to save the people from civil war.

"We are standing in the middle of war between the rulers of this land and the Persians. Though it is now certain that Chandragupta Maurya has defeated Seleucus I Nicator in the battle, there are many intruders from the Persian region here in Pataliputra (Modern day Patna, Bihar) who might try to harm us. Guiding you is not only my responsibility, but my dharma (moral righteousness), however, hurting any individual is against our vows until he embarrasses the golden triangle. If someone sees us and asks for explanation, we could be in trouble." Bharadvaja voiced his opinion to the king in spite of knowing that he had travelled the worlds to come here and king will not go unless he achieves the goal. Maharishi himself acknowledges the need for this duty and feels proud to be part of it, but he was a little alarmed about the king.

"Don’t worry Bharadvaja. We will finish the task uninterrupted, and will go to our world by giving this land the gift that they might never realize but will be the biggest possession of their lives and generations to come. I am going to create such a personnel on this earth that there will be a balance between right and wrong, rich and poor. This will help them bind together, else every person will think about their own benefit on this land. We need not waste any more time now, and today being the night when we have the right cordial of sun, moon, stars and all planets including the earth, the task has to be finished before the rays of the sun reflects on this part of the bhumi (Land).

King Devadatta and Maharishi move up the plateau from where the assemblage of Ganges, Gandhaka and Son rivers is clearly seen. Though this convergence is the most crowded position for the commercial trade, the place that was chosen by Maharishi was away from the city in the highland covered with the valley of forests. The ceremony that was to be performed is not an ordinary Yagya (Vedic Ritual for Purification) and has yet not been executed by any sages from all the worlds. It takes 21 days to finish the complete ceremony to be attended by the sages from four locations of this world. The other sages at all these locations are deep in their meditation, giving the essence of absolution to this historic day. This is the last day when the king himself has to come down and perform the rites from the deepest of his mind and soul to give birth to the new age of mortality.

Maharishi prepares for the ritual by first purifying part of the land on which they are to perform the ceremony and then makes a virtual boundary around the area that helps obstruct anyone else entering the circle. The king stands at the tip of the uphill seeing the city slowly getting into the relaxation of the night. It is now almost dark and illuminated with the clay pots outside the house and fire in the front yard for the preparation of dinner. Pataliputra is the land of policies, administration and the example of agriculture to this world. This land cohesively connects the inner and outer world in a tenacious circle and, therefore, is the best place to perform this ritual. He smiles to itself with the numbness of tears in his eyes, and sits on the rock adjacent to him, when his thoughts are disrupted by Maharishi, who requests him to join the sacred ritual.

Both sit in an upright posture, and cross-legged with the feet placed on the opposite thighs. The eyes are closed and with the divine powers of Aum they start the communion that will define the future of this world. Both the masters of the game go into deep meditation, and such is the reflection of thoughts that it synergizes with the minds of all high minded sages that have been chosen to perform this task in conjunction for 21 days across the length and breadth of the world. Such is the energy created with these minds that at the darkest hour, when the moon apparently hides behind the clouds, the lightning and thunderstorm falls on the earth engulfing the endless land in the showers of rainstorm and floods. The king and Maharishi, deep into their meditation, energize their souls with such intensity that blue waves emerge from their bodies and get reflected in the endless skies hitting the earth with the torrents of lightning and cloudburst. The practice continues for hours before the dawn, ending with the succession prayers to the gods and the goddesses that make this event blossom. With the first rays of sunlight, Maharishi and King Devadatta open their eyes, rest their hands on the feet and fall in partial concentration, indulging themselves with the three worlds. They pray to the almighty with folded hands and stand up praying to the lord of light, thereby ending their ceremony successfully.

The king maneuvers around the area towards the edge of the cliff to preview the daily chores of the capital while Maharishi winds up the last rites of the ceremony.

Maharishi Bharadvaja, please come here fast and look at the destruction below, echoed the king hastily while looking back and persuading him to see the horrifying episode of repulsion. From faraway, they could see people outside their houses, with the homes and huts of the citizens shattered and the entire city in a state of mourning.

In a world that was left by the people thousands of centuries ago, this is bound to happen, and my lord, why are you forgetting that these people unknowingly have averted the biggest civil war of their time that will change the discourse of their own generations? says Bharadvaja

I would like to go down and check out the destruction caused through the ceremony yesterday night, announces the king to the maharishi, who in turn retaliates that it is absolutely not safe for them to now stay here for even minutes. The king looks at Bharadvaja and actions him to follow him without even saying a word.

Maharishi knew that he had to go down, but he was performing his duty to safeguard the king at all times. They walk down the streets and the by-lanes of Pataliputra near to the Son River and towards the confluence of the Ganges with Gandhaka. The valley of forests that yesterday seemed to be standing tall in pride now is fragmented into pieces with trees demolished on top of each other. The city seems to them completely in shock and devastated, in ruins so vast that it might take these people years to build their own houses again. More than that, many people lie buried in the ground, and operations to evacuate are being conducted by the military and commandments of the Maurya Dynasty, including civilians. Grain, pulses left drained in water, cows were seen roaming on the streets in despair with no sign of fodder around. As he walks past the road towards the city inhabitations which are still in the dark even though the sun is rising to the morning of a new millennium, he is aghast to witness the most shocking experience of his lifetime. Their lay an audacious mother who gave birth to three beautiful children hours before the ceremony started and all of which went missing after this episode. The wife lay cold and deceased of the trade merchant who benefited multi folds through the formalization of the alliance between the Maurya dynasty and the Seleucus Empire, stimulating India’s trade with the western world.

Everything is finished, and I have no hope to live in this world when my children are no more, crying and weeping profusely, the new father of three says to the audience who surrounded his house.

King Devadatta moves forward into his house in spite of many warnings by the Maharishi, and tries to listen to the father’s ordeal. He stands there gazing at the father and the audience when he vows to the couple, "Son, your children and all of them indeed are alive and will become great warriors of this time. In no capacity, am I able to bring them back to you, but your generations in years to come will write the history that gods will only know, the ancient times that will make this land affluent and flourishing, the inevitable and eventual future that harmonizes the society of the divine