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You can only come to the morning through the shadows- J.R.R. Tolkein
It was a desperate ploy, I admit. My interest in the supreme power was not to utilize it or harness it. I never dreamt I would one day wield it. I never knew the ultimate power could be tamed by anyone, lest only me. I judged that I had grown up with a massive power of will myself. I had survived so far, I bet on my own willpower to survive, which I am good at.
It was just survival, to survive I plunged into the ultimate power and I became God.
I became one with the universe.
I was the stars. I was the sun. I was the last dying breath of old woman. I was the germ sitting on the sting of a bee. I was the comet about to blast the planet. I was the the editor of INDImag. I was the creator of internet.
I was everything.
I was one and I was many.
I was the universe itself.
I was united with the almighty. I was the alpha and the omega.
Victory was mine, but not because I fought a great battle of strength and valor, but because there was no one to challenge me.
All the theologians where wrong about heavenly laws and judgment day. There was never an all-father, never was an almighty. The ultimate power was lying there waiting for the first claimant to claim it. The all mighty was not a all-seeing all-powerful person.And if he was, he was too careless to trust the guardians to guard it. As I walked across the universe I realized a sensory pattern in the universe.
A ordered chaos, heavenly laws where written in ether. The laws governed everything, motion, air, water. I realized that heavens need not have a all seeing father. Everything was written down in ether spread across the stars, but then on closer inspection, I realized something amiss. The laws had a flaw.
An imminent flaw. A tumor. The law had to maintain freewill. Yet there was the human tendency to socialize. Which formed societies, societies which then try to suppress every little voice that would go against their standards. Thus hampering freewill. Many lost souls will commit suicides. Humans were a mistake, God never intended to make them on top of food chain at any stage. Yet, their existence was necessary to complete the food cycle. To maintain the nature.
The moment I realize this, another realization hits me. Universe is about to end. The divine progression towards doom.
End Of The World
Even the power of the almighty was not enough to change this. No time travel could save this as no one could travel back in time zero, not even the almighty. It was impossible for even him, for whom nothing is impossible.
There was only one solution. Everything must be undone. The universe should begin from beginning.
But… then, I understood. The grand gesture, the creation of universe, was the biggest task even for the almighty. Such a event would need personal sacrifice. What a fool I was, a Dog?
What is a better solution to correct your mistake that to pass the responsibility to a unsuspecting fool? A fool who is already hunting it down and looking for grandeur? But then, the grand planner was wrong. He relied on me to sacrifice for the grand plan.
He judged me wrong. Finally after a long time I had finally achieved the ultimate power, power which I envied since childhood. God had wronged me and he had punished me unjustly. I had to steal his power to balance the justice scale. I was not a devil by birth, the world created me as the devil. How had the almighty assumed I could give such a sacrifice?
Busy as I was with the thought when something unexpected happened… A very large cosmic energy sucked me into the void, all my might could not prevent me from going in.
‘How dare you usurp the power supreme?’ boomed a voice, ‘Did you think the universe will accept your reign over us?’
I looked at him and the person was made of plasma, like a jelly he wriggled as he spoke.
‘Who are you to question me?’ I asked.
‘I am master of time, the master of all that is, was and will be,’ he boomed, ‘Me and my fellow masters of the universe condemn you to punishment, devil. Surrender the power or face the wrath of Panchamahabhuta (5 elements that made the universe)’
As he spoke, five figures scooped out of thin air, I remember the five present, Varuna, the master of water. Vayu, the master of air. Vyom, the master of space and ether. Agni, the master of energy and fire and Prithvi, the master of all solid land.
They stood in front of me enraged in fury with all their deadliest weapon prepared.
‘You do not understand, do you?’ I asked, ‘Did you challenge the almighty before me? He abandoned you at your fate, left you with a progression towards annihilation. I do not demand worship or prayer, but I do demand respect.’
‘Then, we take it as a no,’ boomed master of time, ‘Then I refuse to give you a future, refuse to become your memories of past and I deny you your present, be gone…’
‘HOW DARE YOU CHALLENGE ME? HOW DARE YOU CHALLENGE GOD?’ I boomed, my voice shaking the cosmos from its axis.
So angered was I at the rebellion that I sucked the eminent danger to me.
Prithvi, the master of earth, attacked me with his full strength. To take him down, I had to face him head-on. The show of strength between rocked the whole universe. The living world witnessed the Universe-quake a series of vibratory pattern moving across the universe smashing everything in the way…and thus earth smashed.
Agni was even more furious on the death of Prithvi, the master of fire spread the cyclone of fire across all cosmos. I enraged with his attack burned him into hell-fire, thus ended fire in the world.
Varun was more flexible to crush down, he resisted a long time taking different shaped. But finally he was taken down. Thus all the water vanished.
Vayu was very agile and light-footed. He resisted my attack for a long time, he would not stay at a single place to face attack. So angered was I at his powered, I created a black hole, to suck him in.
Vyom had the power of infinite and eternity. He had endless energy space. To destroy him, I had to create a larger black hole, but my fury did not end here.
In the rage, I erased all the threat to me, to my reign…until… nothing remained.
Nothing. Void.
The universe was gone. And then you appeared out of nowhere and asked me what happened so I told my story.
‘That is interesting,’ said the person under the hood, ‘I have always underestimated you, kaal.’
‘I still do not understand how you survived the annihilation of the universe,’ he asked.
‘I didn’t,’ the person said, ‘I am merely a Chetna in you.’
‘The world did wrong you and you sought out to seek revenge, but in doing so have you realize the unique position you are standing on? What is the difference between you and the society now? They condemned you to the darkness, you did the same. Look around you, we stand in the void. You are alone, as you always were. Your revenge is done, nothing remains, so now that you have fulfilled your quest… I ask you…what next?’
‘I have no clue, restoring the balance will take a big sacrifice, I am not sure if I am ready to do that. But then again, my revenge is done. I did finish off every thing that had wronged me, by restoring balance maybe I will set the record straight…’ such engrossed was he in his thoughts that he never realized he was alone. The hooded figure had vanished.
‘The loneness is driving me crazy. I am now imagining hooded people.’ said Kaal looking at the void, ‘I believe since I am the only one left, I should restore the balance. So cunning God, so cunning. Finally I was proved to be only dog on lease, just a puppet in grand scheme. So be it then…’
And light emerged…big bang happened…again.
The universe was showed light, the nations continued to govern in their crazy ways, the societies were formed, but something was different, freethinkers were born, who brought about change.
Slowly the wheel was corrected…but Kaal was no more.
Epilogue:
Far off in the most scheduled and unmapped sector of space, ‘I always underestimated you Kaal,’ the person under the hood said, ‘while the world condemned you as Kaal, the destroyer, you finally became Kaal, the healer, pity such a grand gesture, no one to witness.’ She removed the hood, smiled and walked away into nothingness
|| अस्तो मा सद् गमय तमसो मा ज्योतिर्गमय मृत्योन् मा अमृतं गमय् ||
P.s. Happy new year.
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