Born Again

"A scepter is a ceremonial staff, often used by kings. With its jewels and ornamentation, a scepter is a symbol of power. Scepter is related to a Greek verb that means to prop oneself or lean on something. That makes sense, since a scepter is something a ruler can lean on, like any other staff."

"But I did not realize that this scepter, with the solid huge diamond at the head, was magical and would get attuned to the person who was in power. After my coronation it had got attuned to me and was my power."

"Coming back to the cave- Arun and I entered the cave, carrying an oil lamp. We found a save place at the back of the cave behind a longish boulder slightly away from the wall of the cave."

"We started putting all the things there, one after the other. I thought to cover all of them with the robe and cover that up with another cloth and then tie everything with a rope with which I had initially tied these things in a bundle when I had taken them from the kingdom."

"When I placed the scepter with the rest of the things, perhaps my hand touched the huge diamond on its head. The huge diamond started to glow. Soon there was a blinding light which started to spread. This light lit up the entire cave and at the end of the cave, on the opposite side of where we had placed the stuff, we could see a saint taking shape."

"OK! Please continue!" Exclaimed the overwhelmed Doctor. This entire case was getting more and more strange as each session passes. What more would one learn about the past in so much detail. These thoughts were running across his mind.

"Hmm, people in your time call them seers or saints, we called them Sadhus. They have been called Fakirs also in later years."

"This sadhu was bald and was wearing a white shining gown. I don't know who he was."

"Come closer," the saint beckoned to Arun and me.

As we approached him he asked us to be seated. But there was no seat.

"Take a seat!" He exclaimed again and with the movement of his hands he procured a bench with a rug over it, He himself sat on the longish boulder.

We both sat on the bench in an erect position, after all, we were both slightly scared of him.

"Do you know what you both have done?"

"No Sir," we both replied at the same time.

"You have changed something that was not supposed to be changed."

"Now you are destined to be born again and again, all of you."

We were both zapped and looked at each other with a fearful look on our faces.

"You see, you, your parents, this uncle are destined to be born again and again. This same group of person will be born again and again as parents or relatives. Every time this uncle will try to kill you Sanya, and he will probably succeed."

"At that time you will need to explain to her on how to get out of this circle of life and murder."

"Bring her to this cave, you will be her guide. You will need to help her the most."

"She will be strong mentally but not like the daughter of a king should be."

"I think you know what I am trying to tell you."

"You will need to use this scepter, it knows what it has to do."

"After the saint finished his short speech, he vanished."

"We left the cave, put a boulder at the opening of the cave. To identify the area we marked it with trade symbols, that Arun had been using."

"We wiped the area of any footprints by sweeping the area around the cave with twigs."

"We had always wondered what the saint wanted to convey."

"We had a good life actually, we lived a happy life."

"After our death we did not get salvation, but saw ourselves being born again and again. We had the same parents. But no one remembered their past life. Maybe they were not destined to."

"Every time Arun and I tried to connect to the future me, we just couldn't connect. The future me could not see me or listen to me or talk to me."

"These future me's were probably not ready to believe that such a channel of communication was possible."

"We got tired of these cycles of birth and death as well as not being able to connect to the future me's. In the future, Arun was having a tough time as he could not meet any girl he could married to. Obviously he couldn't as she was already killed by her uncle."

"Some of the scenes we were destined to play over and over again. The temple scene, the running through the corridors of the palace, the coronation ceremony. then running away with Arun along with all the jewels I considered to be mine."

"Similarly, Arun would be the trader getting information and then falling in love with me and me with him. His finding out about the plot to kill me. I finding out about how my uncle had killed my parents and my brother."

"Our running away with the jewelry crown, robe, scepter etc. Our hiding it in the cave and placing the boulder at the entrance of the cave. Sweeping the area with twigs. Finally the camel and horse cart ride to the coast and the sailing away from there."

"We have been doing replays for so long now and are very tired. We are both happy now that Tania has come and listened to me. She knows the whole story now and what to do."

"Arun and I will be with her till she reaches the cave."

"Within a few days Tania and her paternal grandparents, will probably be leaving for India."

"I have a strong intuition that Doctor, you will also be accompanying them?"

"Now, I should leave you to make the necessary arrangements. Arun is waiting for me."