Learning to unlearn

He rubbed his eyes yet could remember nothing or recognize the place. It seemed to be a huge hall with no walls, or rather he could not see them. The hall was illuminated naturally and a inexplicable soothing sensation was grappling him. He could not correlate his arrival or the place? His body was responding to the innate rhythm of the surroundings, he never felt so invigorated. His mind assessed the same way, he appeared to be drifted from the routine complexities. He assumed to be acquainted with the routine complexities but retrieved none. Now, he murmured, the alienness was getting on him.

He saw another man walking up to him. His excitement waned as the figure draw closer; how would he communicate, he did not know his language? The stranger gestured at him and asked him who was he? He got perplexed as he could not decipher a word of what the stranger said, yet, he responded. The stranger too looked bewildered but appeared contented with the answer. It was unfathomable for him to converse with this complete stranger at an absolute unknown place in an incomprehensible language, yet they were understanding each other.

Their conversation got interrupted by the two beings who looked well acquainted with the milieu. They smiled and asked him and the stranger to accompany them. He asked them,"who am I, where are we, who are you?" The escorts giggled and replied,“this happens every time you come here. You forget everything, who are you, where are you, what is this place? But, no sooner than you go back to the earth you remember everything. You remember all the differences with your fellow human beings. You vent your lives in retaining and exploiting these differences. How you do it when no other creature coming from the earth does this?“

One of the escorts bored his eyes on to him and said, “both of you are being killed on earth in your own homes called ‘countries’ by the people of each other’s ‘nationality’. Tell me, can both of you distinguish yourself from the other? Before we arrived, you were conversing in an ancient incomprehensible language that binds all the souls. But, on the earth you learn the new languages and get separated on the lingual basis. Here you are elated to see a stranger and there you get suspicious.” Then he turned to his mate and said,"they rob us off our wits. The way they are differentiating it seems something is round the corner. You remember the holocaust time? Earth is such a beautiful place, their activities have made it difficult for us to visit it.”