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VEDIC
SCRIPTURES
A Song of Fortune
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A modern
Gîtâ
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Introduction
The
word is the weapon of the wise.
 Once
in a great union of states, not too long ago, there
was a family called the Laborer family descending from
a great dynasty of nobles ruling the world: the Many
dynasty. They had worked hard for their rule and
wealth, and had achieved the dominion over the entire
planet. The world was the playground where they set
the rules of the game in which they held sway over
all. But a conflict of justice had risen between the
haves and the have-nots of the family.
The
Laborer family of the Many dynasty had split up in
these two opposing factions in society. The have-nots
of the Laborers, befriended with the Onceitwas clan,
became destitute being cheated by their nephews in a
gambling game at the stock market and had lost their
possessions, stature and positions. The Onceitwas clan
was another branch of the Moon dynasty to which the
Many dynasty belonged, but it had ages before fallen
in disgrace with a founding father of the Moon dynasty
called Allard, who wanted his sons to take his burden
of old age. The Laborers were the descendants from the
son that had complied to the wishes of the founding
father. The Onceitwas clan had descended from the
eldest son and original heir to the throne who had
refused to take the burden. The have-not Laborers
being unemployed, were, to their shame and downfall -
with the foul play as was arranged by the Laborers in
function -, not admitted to any authority,
considerable position or proprietorship in whatever
field. They were simply denied an equal position in
society and were turned down always with whatever they
tried, so that they had to live degraded as
second-rank citizens with the minimal rights of mere
slaves.
But the Onceitwas clan, which still
had maintained its wealth by honestly serving as a
police force fighting the bad elements in society,
helped out the have-nots who were also called the
Gwens, because of their father Gwen who, dying early,
had left them behind with their mother Alice who was a
daughter from the Onceitwas family. A younger nephew
of her, the master of the Onceitwas clan, was called
Dwayne1,
because of his dark complexion; he was a divine type,
an ardent defender of the philosophy of yoga, very
beautiful to behold, who dressed up finely with good
taste. He was highly intelligent and of great renown
for his heroic, virtuous and beneficial acts and was
most benevolent in his piety of taking the lead in
wisdom and defending the order of the honorable
culture of the Moon dynasty.
Dwayne,
living with four beautiful women, real queens as they
were, was befriended with Aylen, one of the five Gwen
brothers who had assembled in a great association,
that brought together all the repressed ones of the
time, in order to contest the Laborers' rule. So the
Gwens came to fight their own family members, the
Laborers, with whom they had grown up under the care
of their blind father Edward, their uncle, who, as the
brother of their early deceased father Gwen, had taken
them in custody next to the care for his own sons. It
were a hundred half brothers born from different
mothers, who were lead by the difficult, arrogant and
treacherous character of the eldest son named Basil.
But uncle Edward was too attached to his own sons to
defend and help out his Gwen nephews when they lost
their wealth, after in their weakness of gambling
having wasted their chances on the stock market.
The
Gwen nephews were five brothers with second
Aylen2
who was great in sports and accomplished in
intellectual matters. Bryan was big, voracious, very
strong and good in the kitchen. Alex was the eldest
and the dominant one taking the lead always. And then
there were the twin-brothers called Constant who kept
an eye on everything and Don who organized whatever
one needed. So they had set up this unique union of
volunteers, because voluntarism was the only type of
work they were permitted to do. Usually they were
engaged in all kinds of welfare activities, like
helping the homeless, widows and other poor people
like themselves, for a remuneration of nothing more
than a social security check. Tired of all insults and
repression, injustice and denial from the side of the
Laborers, they decided to found a political party
called the Filognostic Association, the association of
the lovers of a comprehensive spiritual gnosis, the
FA, which sometimes was also called the Federation of
the Adamant. They were decided to fight their position
back in society and retrieve an equal stature and
responsibility. But that would, of course, result in a
serious confrontation and turnover of power in
parliament. Being curbed in that desire by the Laborer
rule, they thus suffered many repressive measures
designed to prevent them to get that far. Fighting
that repression they planned for a political campaign
which would bring them the victory of the popular
vote, but for that purpose they had to denounce the
quality and character of their own nephews, the honor
of their own family clan of the Many dynasty, that had
ruled the world for ages.
To
Aylen, the most docile and friendly of the brothers,
that was a thing hard to handle. And so he, ready for
the elections to start the FA campaign, consulted with
Dwayne, his best friend as he faced the opposition of
the repressive and forbidding Laborer nephews. Dwayne
then sung a song of wisdom to him he would never
forget, for it gave him back his confidence and
brought him as well the final victory over the
injustice of the Laborer nephews. Our story begins
with the blind uncle Edward hearing from his secretary
Ellery what took place during the campaign of the
Gwens and the Laborers.
2007
© Aadhar, Enschede
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