The Divine Mystery

THE DIVINE MYSTERY Anjan, a tribal village that is believed to be birth place of Lord Hanuman witnesses an mysterious phenomenon in which a hot crystal stone coming up from the ground sandwiched between two shivalingas, chars to death the nearby vegetation and a few animals. A bright but agnostic young scientist from Mumbai, who has been getting weird dreams of a mysterious village since his childhood, is rushed to this remote forest village to collect samples. Though a killing takes place a day after he arrives in, sending chilling waves down his spine, he manages to do his job. But, as the scientist plans to go back, he is encountered with yet another incident—key of his car goes mysteriously missing. When his driver and other villagers engage themselves in frantic search for the key, an old man recounts his childhood experience in which a similar incident had taken place with an English officer. The old man recounts how Lord Hanuman had caused the disappearance of the officer’s key when the latter did not believe his servant who had said that he had seen Anjani, mother of Lord Hanuman along with her baby, in a cave in Anjan while herding cows. The scientist, led by villagers, sets out to see the cave located below a hill in the village where Lord Hanuman was born; and on the way is told the rich mythology of the Munda world surrounding Lord Hanuman. Slowly, a few of his childhood dreams start making sense; and hence decide to stay on for a few more days till all his dreams are unfolded. Meanwhile, while bathing in an upstream he meets with a fatal accident, but is luckily saved by a tribal girl, who carries him on her shoulder to her house and gets him treated by her father, an ethno-medicine doctor. While recuperating in her care, he falls in love with her. One day, he shares his dreams with her particularly the one in which a divine man’s manners resemble that of Lord Hanuman, and that Hanuman was born as a Munda tribesman. The girl initially rubbishes his dream but recalls that she had a Munda friend in college whose gotra was ‘Hanuman’. The duo sets out in search of the girl. On the way, through the rich tribal mythology the scientist learns how sex began on earth, how linga-yoni worship started and how marriage as an institution set in. When they meet the girl, the scientist finds that Lord Hanuman was not a monkey but a man without a tail and probably a historical figure, as the Munda families take him as one of their distant ancestors. On the other hand, the samples of the crystal stone the scientist had sent to Mumbai is found to be a new element which could be used to develop super power lens that can capture image of the unseen like human soul, thereby solving all-time mystery of existence of soul, death and rebirth. The scientist’s boss tries to sell the stone to an American company, in which the scientist initially agrees to be part of. But later another dream from Lord Hanuman warns him not to do that. When the men of the senior scientist land in Anjan to steal away the stone at night, there is bloody battle with the villagers in which the scientist is shot and fatally wounded and his beloved’s father dead. When he regains consciousness after three days, he recounts the entire story to his beloved, in deep remorse; adding that mystery of death and re-birth should be left to remain a mystery. Back in Mumbai, on the same night, the scientist’s mother gets a heart stroke and a neighbour girl, who likes the scientist, happens to be beside her on that fateful day. She rushes her to the hospital; the mother manages to get back to sense and asks the girl to send an email to her son. After three days of unconsciousness when the scientist regains consciousness due to the Munda girl’s care, he opens his email from the Mumbai girl and finds that his mother is no more. He then also reads his mother’s mail in which she asked the scientist to marry the Mumbai girl, as she had chosen her for him. The Munda girl who saves him? Or the Mumbai girl whom his mother had chosen for him? With his father dead long back and mother now gone, the scientist is all alone to take a hard decision. EoM