THE BEACH MYSTERY

BEACHES CREATE A SPECIAL AMBIENCE for the relaxation of the heart and soul. Kollam beach had its own flowing rhythm. The pounding sound of the waves, the silence of the pyramid, and the mist of addictive cold air has a dominant effect on self-awareness. Depressed souls find some meditative solace on this heart melting beach. The bliss one would experience in the solitude on the beach shore, especially after dusk, is incomparable.

One such night when the clock struck 2 A.M, a man in his prime entered this desolate beach and settled down on one of the rocks unmindful of the crabs crawling in the lunar frenzy. The man had depressing eyes, tears just waiting to flow down from his eyes, sinking face with tied hair, and a lean figure. He started throwing pebbles in the sea which created sudden ripples, making them disappear with the waves.

After a short while his silence was interrupted by a silhouette. He tries to inspect the shadow to find a man with a poignant psyche. Unorganized long curly hair, black marks fluttering his whole physiognomy, and undraped physique with a torn white dhoti reflected his lunatic character. Gazing at the young man for some time, he strives to warm his seat beside him on the rocks. Initially the young man struggles to evade this psychopath, but he continues to pester him. After some moment of silence the psychopath strikes a conversation with the young guy.

“Depressed?”The psychopath interrogates.

The young man fixes his vision towards the sea to elude the madman’s question. But the psychopath remains intransigent, and again strives to interrupt him.

"Tell me the issue and I will try to sort it out"

The young man finally bursts into tears and with a deep low voice replied,

"I have lost everything, and my life has gone astray. There is no way you can help me out."

"My condition matches yours", said the psychopath giggling.

"We are both standing on the same platform with no idea when the train is going to approach us. So let us be friends", as he advances his hand for friendship with the young man.

"Leave me alone for god sake, life doesn't matter to you much but it is not so with my case", the young man raged.

"I am not what you see now. Even I had a terrible past, which pinches me every single moment”, the psychopath responded.

"There is a Blue Sapphire on this beach and whoever gets it will be filled with richness of the reality of life," the psychopath added.

"How?" asked the young man in a confused state of mind.

The psychopath continues in a solemn voice,

"In ancient era, there used to live a king who ruled some province of Karnataka. He was an egoistic creature who seldom bothered about the happiness and prosperity of the people of his town. Plague started to strike the town and many started dying because of the unavailability of medicines, but king was barely bothered about their predicament. The king had a son who was considered as the most generous person the kingdom had ever seen. The prince tried to persuade the king to offer them medical help or else he would personally do it. Resentment sailed through the king’s blood after hearing this. He thought his prestige was being dishonoured by his own son and decided to throw him out of the kingdom. Soon he was thrown out of the kingdom by the guards to an isolated beach in Kerala".

"That was a heinous vicissitude. And then?" the young man asked in shock.

"His transformation took altogether a different turn from a prince to a vagrant. The only entity that was left with the prince was the 'Blue Sapphire' which was gifted to him by his mother before she died. The prince would roam around the beach the entire day carrying the blue sapphire, and recollecting the good old days he lived as a prince. He clung to his pasts that so much that day by day he became psychologically unwell and could not carry on further with his life. He wrote that there is something in that 'Blue Sapphire' which could transform a person's life, before he resolved to submerge himself in to the sea. His soul resides in the 'Blue Sapphire' itself".

"What was written in that blue sapphire is still a mystery," the psychopath said, completing the story.

"All of us live with our past. All of us allow it to shape our future. But some of us know how to shrug away the past. I think that is who I am. These were his last words written on that blue sapphire," the young man responded interrupting the psychopath.

“How do you know that?” asked the psychopath in a whammy state.

"Look carefully in to my eyes. I am that Blue Sapphire .I am that Consciousness. I am that symbol of Present Moment. I am that prince.

Shortly you will disappear in to the blue sapphire with me and transmute to a different level of consciousness. 'Nothing' would remain inside you except the 'Witness',” the young man responded with his eyes turning dark blue.

The whole being of the psychopath was filled with reverence. Suddenly an enormous wave appeared from the sea, and engulfed both of them. Two of them disappeared leaving the 'Blue Sapphire’ behind on the rocks.