Secrets Hidden In Time (Time #1)

41 | The Hued Reflection

The Bishop looked at her with a faint smile, with a faraway look in his eyes. "How old are you, my child?"

"Soon going to turn twenty-six." Came a firm reply.

"Prescience is quite a rare trait these days." He then raised his hand up, patting the top of her head. "God Bless you." He paused, positioning his hands at their initial locus. "You have my support. I'll talk with Archbishop Avaran and employ a few others to get this task done along with me, if needed. You need not worry at all."

Hinduja bowed softly. "Thank you, your Excellency."

"Anytime."

"You won't ask me anything else about the case? Aren't you curious?" The lady questioned.

They resumed strolling along the pillars.

Anoop Philip chuckled. "Curiosity is good but we must only know things that we are supposed to know. The thirst to know anything beyond that is detrimental to the conscious mind." He looked at her.

She acceded.

Suddenly, the clergyman closed his eyes, as if he were taking in the breeze in the surroundings.

"Bhagavad Gita - Chapter 9, Verse 18th

"गतिर्भर्ता प्रभु: साक्षी निवास: शरणं सुहृत् |
प्रभव: प्रलय: स्थानं निधानं बीजमव्ययम् ||"

He calmly recited the shloka, tasting each alphabet on his tongue.

Hinduja turned her head to look at him in absolute shock. Eyes wide, she stared at him in utter bewilderment. "You have read the Bhagavad Gita?"

Instead of replying to her, he put forward his own question. "Do you know what's the meaning of this verse?"

"Kind of" She said "Yeah"

He smiled. "In this verse, Lord Krishna says, I am the Supreme Goal of all living beings, and I am also their Sustainer, Master, Witness, Abode, Shelter, and Friend. I am the Origin, End, and Resting Place of creation; I am the Repository and Eternal Seed."

He then looked at her. "Do you know, we have a verse similar to this in the Bible as well?"

"What?" She asked, a little curious.

"Bible - John 14:6
'Lord,' said Thomas, "we do not know where you are going, so how can we know the way?"
Jesus Answered -
'I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me."

The Bishop recited peacefully, again shutting his eyes close. "Whether, it's the Bible, the Bhagavad Gita, the Torah, the Guru Granth Sahib, the Qur'an, the Tattvartha Sutra, the Pali Canon or for that matter any other religious text from any faith from around the world, they all have one thing in common-the belief that God is everywhere." He explained. "And the reason why I said all this, is to make you understand, that you need not worry so much. God is everywhere. God is watching everything, even his own beings who have turned vicious, lost their conscience, culminating themselves into wrongdoers. And if God is watching everything, justice will definitely prevail at the end."

He pointed at the ground beneath. "Either in this realm." Next, he directed the same finger at the sky. "Or in some other realm."

He halted his speech. "But justice will prevail no matter what. All humans are bound to answer their creator, the wrongdoers included."

"Yes," she voiced out. "But, I am shocked you have read the Bhagavad Gita."

"Bible or Bhagavad Gita, what's the difference?" Anoop Philip chuckled. "The forms or names might be different, but at the end of it all, he is one, the supreme power above us all."