\u201cI just got something back\u201d, Lady Kay turned to her husband. \u201cA jewel, that is a whole complete soul, with memories and personality and everything, full of worship of Lord Krishna as Govinda and Lady Lakshmi as Radha the Gopi, it just integrated with me and I\u2019m\u2026 more\u201d, she smiled at him blissfully. \u201cI have a whole new lifetime of devotion to my Mother and Father in me now\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cAh, so it\u2019s not just me\u201d, Zee smiled. \u201cI had the same thing happen to me today but I was still trying to figure it out and didn\u2019t want to mention it before I had the whole picture, but I think I do now\u201d, he nodded. \u201cMine was a Sufi mystic, contemplating what he thought was the endless depth of Allah, but the seed of it was in fact my own worship of Lord Shiva, and the mystic was born out of my tear, and carried in itself the dominant trait of my soul, which is worship of my Father. I also got a crystal that became a part of me, and yet distinct, a whole soul and personality full of memories that is an expansion of myself into that life. I think we need to talk to the elders\u201d, he smiled and kissed his wife.<\/p>\n
\u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cAh, so this is the fruit of those good efforts on Earth. Our tears are combining with the newborn souls, and achieving enlightenment, and yet they for some reason don\u2019t become independent angelic beings, but increase the power and glory of the existing Gods, thus participating in God\u2019s manifestation and destiny\u201d, nodded Lord Vishnu. \u201cThank you for letting us know. My wife and I have received similar crystals, but we didn\u2019t know that the rest of you did as well\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is an interesting development\u201d, Lord Shiva smiled at his wife. \u201cSo far, they would either become independent astral beings, or angels, or in some cases, Gods in their own right. I don\u2019t know whether this choice to join into us is intentional, inevitable or a natural consequence of their sadhana and origin\u201d, he mused.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know, but I can guess based on what my crystal feels like. It feels like someone who merged their destiny and existence with mine, doesn\u2019t want to be anything but me, and has a whole life of worship and love that are now mine\u201d, Shakti smiled. \u201cBut what happens if such a soul-crystal carries bad stuff along with the good? What if there are inclusions and impurities to be purified, along with the holy memories that make that life mine now?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen it becomes our problem, I would say\u201d, Mahesh nodded. \u201cWe would need to understand and resolve those spiritual lessons from their own perspective, or we could use this karma for an incarnation on Earth, that would be ours, and yet have karmic lessons to learn and things to do in the process. It opens up interesting possibilities which we might explore at some point\u201d, he nodded and embraced her.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wonder what the exact rules are?\u201d, she whispered into his ear. \u201cDo they come only to those who cried tears of compassion over human suffering, or also those who invested efforts into helping, and are those tears and energy investments thus departing from the world, or are they just bearing fruit once they fall on fertile ground of nucleating new souls? I wouldn\u2019t want the world to be depleted of the energy we invested there to make it spiritually richer, because it would make it a barren wasteland once more\u201d, she sighed.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s more complex than that. I see permanent spots of light where they nucleated, and where the tears used to be. It\u2019s as if devotion and meditation that formed those crystals formed permanent traces in the very tissue of the world, like scars of light. It\u2019s nothing I would have expected; a whole new phenomenon we haven\u2019t seen before\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, you say it\u2019s a double gain? Our tears caused the nucleation, new souls were born, permanent traces were cut into darkness, and we got karma and memories back?\u201d, Vishnu mused, after his friend shared his thoughts. \u201cThe tears and the good karma combined to form a specific crystal, that contains both the soul-signature of the caster, and the sprouted and enriched seed of their intent and devotion. Also, there\u2019s a possibility of bad karma to be included, but we didn\u2019t have anything special, other than the cultural peculiarities. Some gender-related weirdness, some cultural rigidity and framing things in a certain way that\u2019s not necessarily quite right, some particular desires and tastes, an experience of a complete human life. All of it informative and enriching, in fact\u201d, he nodded.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut if this unexpected phenomenon is good, it leaves open the possibility for other unexpected phenomena that might not be as good. We must have our eyes open, and investigate\u201d, Lord Shiva scratched his chin.<\/p>\n
\u201cBy all means. We knew our tears and the energy conduits will do something. We also knew the souls started to nucleate. These were merely the best outcomes, the souls that attained fulfilment by joining the existing Gods as their destinies of choice. It is only reasonable to assume that this is not the only possible outcome of the process\u201d, Vishnu frowned.<\/p>\n
\u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cOh wow\u201d, Kay winced, as her jewel flashed gold.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat is it?\u201d, her husband turned to her immediately in alarm.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe just lost an astral sub-plane\u201d, her face was incredulity itself.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow do you mean, lost? It disappeared?\u201d, Zee wondered.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo, it\u2019s still there. It\u2019s just lost to the Throne of God. It switched allegiance to Sanat Kumar and is now an astral extension to his world\u201d, she couldn\u2019t even believe what she was saying.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow is that even possible?\u201d, Lord Azazel stuttered.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause that was a sub-plane I created for the souls that were so loyal to Sanat Kumar and so Earth-minded and lacking in any transcendental substance that Azrael and the rest of the Judges didn\u2019t know what else to do with them, and asked me to make a special sub-plane. And apparently, there was a lot of them. Really, really lot of them, like most of everything that actually originated on Earth\u201d, she reminisced.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd let me guess, they all share allegiance to Satan, they all want just Earth as the only true reality for them, and they either reject God\u2019s will, or don\u2019t even perceive it as a thing that exists, or deserves a thought?\u201d, he offered.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would say you\u2019re spot on. We essentially offered sanctuary to beings that are not of God, and don\u2019t recognise His kingdom, and as a result, that place is now no longer of God\u201d, she looked at him in horror. \u201cHave I made a horrible mistake?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo, I don\u2019t think you did, but it\u2019s still an ominous and potentially very bad thing. We need to talk to the elders again, immediately\u201d, he hugged her.<\/p>\n
\u2026<\/p>\n
\u201cOh\u201d, Lord Shiva frowned.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo that\u2019s the downside\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cI just got something back\u201d, Lady Kay turned to her husband. \u201cA jewel, that is a whole complete soul, with memories and personality and everything, full of worship of Lord Krishna as Govinda and Lady Lakshmi as Radha the Gopi, … Continue reading