Once upon a time,there lived a boy with a blank mind. The past being long forgotten, he grew up to be a man with a blank mind.There was nothing that the man had to do. Nil had he to say to anyone and zilch had he to remember.People saw him wandering aimlessly around the universe or sitting down in any place not knowing why he chose to sit there and then.What was his name? I'd tell you if he had remembered it and told it to someone!
However,a curious,young fellow named Ves went in search of this man after hearing about him.He wondered, "how could a mind be blank? There must be something that he thinks about."
After travelling for many many years as Ves got lost due to bad directions given by arbit strangers, he found this man by chance in one of the many worlds in the universe.To his astonishment,he found the man's mind was in fact blank!But, how can that be?This does not make sense.It is impossible!Unable to take in this fact, he continued to pursue the man.
One seemingly ordinary day,something extraordinary happened.The strange man was sleeping.Ves sat beside him thinking about how no thoughts must be running in that mind even as he sleeps.Suddenly,everything seemed to change around him.The ground beneath him vanished.The blue sky changed to black.He found himself floating in nothing. And then it all flashed by him. He saw worlds being built. Worlds with purple seas and moons in shades of grey and gold.He saw skies being painted.Painted to perfection if there was something to measure perfect.And worlds were destroyed before his eyes.Hills and mountains crumbled to water! Some even vanished into nothing as if they never existed and it was true....they never existed.And as he saw the magnitude of the entire universe he felt the magnitude of it.The great,heavy,powerful magnitude of it.It was at that point of time that he could no longer bear any of it that he woke up, realising that he had been sleeping the whole time.He looked all around him and saw that everything was exactly the same.He saw the man sleeping next to him.He sat back down next to the man and calmed himself down.The colour of the sky changed as evening became night. Ves looked at it.Marvelled it.And then,he headed back home.
Dedicated to Rahul
