The Script of Evil

08 - The warning

The sky is just as clean and blue like last Sunday when their adventure started. When they enter the temple complex, they are greeted with a magical, alluring rhythm accompanied by strange singing. Kadin listens intently but cannot identify the instruments that keep the rhythm but the instrument that plays the melody sounds like one or other keyboard instrument.

Are they singing in Sanskrit? Their inquisitiveness urges them on while they are looking excitedly at each other. This is going to be an interesting experience.

They stop at the row of shoes in front of the Krishna temple and get their shoes off and enter. The people in there smile happily at each other and dance in a circle following one another. Now Kadin sees how they keep their magical rhythm. There are three men with miniature cymbals that hit out this strange rhythm. They are supported by three young girls that hit steel triangles with little steel rods. Kadin also now experiences the lovely aroma that fills the temple with the smell of roses and honey and she finds the source in frankincense burning.

A middle-aged lady with a red spot on her forehead just above her nose, is sitting on the floor sits and is leading the singing with an one-note melody using her right hand on a strange looking, small organ while she from time to time pushes a pedal with her left hand to provide sufficient air for the organ to play. Next to her sits a bald man in a light-pink robe and he sings the verses in the strange language and the dancing people repeat the verses after him.

Then abruptly the music ends and all take their seats on the mat in front of him. The statue behind the leader looks like the one in the centre court of the blue figure. Kadin admires the beautiful paintings against the walls. There is one that looks like a beautiful, light, bluish boy with a little flute in his hands. So dainty is he that he could easily be confused with a girl. She wonders whether it could be the same god in his early days that is depicted in one of the statues. This surely is Krishna, she thinks, because this is a Krishna temple. The women are all clad in colourful thin drapes and all the men wear the same clothes as the leader's but theirs is white.

The leader smiles at the unsuspected visitors: "Welcome, do you want to join us?"

Kadin smiles eagerly: "We'd like to if we may ..."

The man smiles happily: "We are so thankful that Krishna blesses us today with your attendance. Please take a seat."

Kadin and Billy sit down next to the worshipers and struggle to get into the right position because of the hard floor. They peep at the rest and wonder how they achieve so easily the cross-legged position on the hard floor.

The leader bends forward and opens a book in front of him: "What are your names?"

Kadin answers: "Kadin and Billy."

"Welcome Kadin and Billy, I am Swami Vyasa Dharma. Today I'm going to read out of the Bhagavad-Gita. I'm first going to read the original Sanskrit and then the English translation and then I will explain the text. The Gita is an excerpt from the Mahabharata, a historic script. It is a conversation between Krishna and Arjuna before the fight between the good and bad forces that ruled the earth from about 5000 years back with the beginning of Kali Yuga, the iron era. The Iron Era is the era in which mankind totally decayed and increasingly became spiritually impoverished so that civilization suffered and deteriorate systematically. This conversation is used as the basic premise of different Hindu beliefs. Krishna orientates the panic-stricken Arjuna before the fight in which Arjuna must fight against his family and bosom friends that represent the evil forces. They are going to fight until death so that good can conquer evil. Krishna, the last incarnation of Vishnu, explains to the bewildered Arjuna the basic principles of the creation and encourages him to fulfil his duty as commander of the good forces successfully."