Saturday, November 22, 2014

Prologue

December  12, 2012
Malgudi

The last rays of the dusky sun were gleaming  on the windows  of Samskutha  patashala of Malgudi. Sri  Murudeshwara  Bhattaru,a hexagenarian Vedic  scholar  and astrologer  was doing  his Sandhyavandhana ,the evening  rituals  at the hostel  room of his student  Vageesha  bhatta.
Murudeshwara  Bhattaru  then arranged  his shells  and drew the sacred  diagrams on the floor  cleaned by Gomutra, cows  urine  brought  by his Shishya  Vageesha  Bhatta.
It was 7 30  PM  when Narasimhan arrived. The lamp  flickered  in a way that was not considered auspicious.
Murudeshwara Bhattaru  saw the earthen lamp in the diagrams and concentrated inward  and looked at the mirror  in his mind.
"..On 23 February  2012  things don't look auspicious. Death can be delayed  but not denied.  It's  the play of Prakruthi.  Nimmiththa.  It leads  us to paramasathya."
Before  Narasimhan could ask  Murudeshwara  Bhattaru  continued "Your daughters  mind is confused  by the Gulika .Ecclipses  don't  last long .Don't  worry. "
Murudeshwara  Bhattaru  then opened  his eyes. "23rd February, 2012. Can we not  change  that?"blurted  Narasimhan who  couldn't  take  all these together emotionally. Narasimhan  felt  emotionally challenged first  time since so many  years. .
"Everything  is  Parameshwaras  grace.  Pray  to him .  I  just  read  what is written  at this moment.  What  is  written  can be changed  by God's  will at any moment  that he wants.  "
Murudeshwara  Bhattaru  closed  his eyes  again.  "Vaagesha  bhatta  please  perform the  yaagas  I prescribe  now.  Let us  use our human efforts to try changing  what  is  written. "

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