Karasu no Tengoku

Chapter Seventeen: The All-Seeing Eye

(A month went by, the once run-down mansion that had been Eiji’s mother’s house was now inhabited by Eiji once again, and all they’d done so far was to read the Hindu sacred literature, they’d read and studied the Vedas and a part of the Bhagavad-Gita, soon they’ll see the Upanishads…Hideki was reading the Bhagavad when Eiji came inside, ah yes, Hideki’d gone back to his house, they were in the living-room…)
“I think today we’ll be over…”
“What do you mean??”
“Mainly, all what you need to open the Third Eye chakra and to activate the All-Seeing Eye are the dialogues spoken by Arjuna in the Bhagavad…”
“Really??”
“Yeah…as for the Fore-Seeing Eye you need the parts that aren’t spoken by him, doesn’t matter who says them…but the strongest are Sanjaya’s dialogues…”
“And, do I need to say some quantity in specific??”
“Yes…of the 18 chapters…for the All-Seeing Eye, at its weakest level…the first 15 lines spoken by Arjuna, at its full level, 20 of them, for the Fore-Seeing Eye, the first 15 lines spoken by Sanjaya, at its full level, 20 of them too…that’s all…”
“It’s easier than I thought…”
“I know…but it takes quite a while to recite them all…it might tire you out…ah yes, and the use in itself of the Third Eye drags out a LOT of energy out of you, so be careful…”
“Doesn’t matter, all sutras are the same in that aspect…”
“I know…I want to hear you recite the first 15 lines…of the All-Seeing Eye…”
“Oook…Arjuna’s then…

Senayorubhayormadhye ratham sthapaya me’cyuta
Yavadetannirikse’ham yoddhukamanavasthitan
Kairmaya saha yoddhavyamasmin ranasamudyame
Yotsyamananavekse¡ham ya ete’tra samagatah
Dhaartarastrasya durbuddheryuddhe priyacikirsavah

Drstvemam svajanam krsna yuyutsum samupasthitam
Sidanti mama gatrani mukham ca parisusyati
Vepathusca sarire me romaharsasca jayate
Gandivam sramsate hastattvakcaiva paridahyate
Na ca saknomyavasthatum bhramativa ca me manah
Nimittani ca pasyami viparitani kesava
Na ca sreyo’nupasyami taba svajanamahave
Na kankse vijayam krsna na ca rajyam sukkhani ca
Kim no rajyena govinda kim bhogairjivitena va
Yesamarthe kanksitam no rajyam boga sukhani ca
That’s it…”
“Yes, perfect…”
“Do I have to learn them by heart??”
“Not really…if you are going to use them frequently and if you want everything to be faster, but still it’s not a rule…”
“Ok…”
“Do you feel any change in the chakra??”
“No…”
“Close your eyes…”
(Hideki did as told…)
“Now…do you feel any change in the chakra??”
“Yeah…it’s like a telescopic vision…I can see all Tokyo…”
“Try to close up to Shinjuku…”
“Yeah…”
“Now to Kabuki Chou…”
“Yeah…”
“Now to the drugstore where you found Hanya…”
“Yeah…”
“Do the blood stains are still there??”
“They where??”
“On the floor and the walls…”
“Mmm, yes, they’re still there…”
“Good…open them…”
(Once again, he did as told…)
“That’s the All-Seeing Eye at its weakest state…for you to have been able to see all Tokyo…you’re pretty good…”
“Weakest state?? What will I be able to see at its strongest??”
“Judging for what I’ve seen now…the whole world…in the future, maybe the whole universe…”
“Really???”
“Yeah…”
“Do I have to do something in specific to close the All-Seeing Eye??”
“Count to three in German and it’ll close…”
“German!?”
“You don’t know German?”
“I do…but why German?”
“I have no idea…but that’s how it is…”
“Alright…Eins, Zwei, Drei…”
“Good…and about the Fore-Seeing Eye, at its weakest state, you can see a minute ahead of your surroundings, and at its strongest, you can see from 10 to 1000 years ahead in your surroundings, but that depends of your strength…”
“There’s too much of a difference…how far ahead can you see?”
“750 years…”
“Wow~”
“Let’s try how far ahead can you see right now…recite the 20 lines of Sanjaya necessary for the Fore-Seeing Eye…”
“Ok…
Drstva tu pandavanikam vyundham duryodhanastada
Acatyamupasangamya raja vacanamabravit
Pasyaitam panduputranamcarya mahatim camum
Vyudham drupadaputrena tava sisyena dhimata
Atra sura mahesvasa bhimarjunasama yudhi
Yuyudhamo viratasca drupadasca maharathah
Dhrstaketuscekitanah kasirajasca viryavan
Purujitkuntibhojasca saibyasca narapungavah
Yudhamanyusca vikranta uttamaujasca viryavan
Saubhadro draupadeyasca sarva eva maharathah
Asmakam tu visista ye tannibodha dvijottama
Nayaka mama sainyasya sañjñartham tanbravimi te
Bhacanbhismasca karnasca krpasca samitiñjayah
Asvastthama vikarnasca saumadattistathaiva ca
Anye ca bahavah sura madarthe tyaktaijivitah
Ñañasastrapraharanah sarve yuddhavisaradah
Aparyaptam tadasmakam balam bhismabhiraksitam
Paryaptam tvidametesam balan bhimabhiraksitam
Ayanesu ca sarvesu yathabhagamvasthitah
Bhismamevabhiraksantu bhavantah sarva eva hi…”
“Now, where are you?”
“It looks like…Kyoto…”
“Have you ever been to Kyoto??”
“Yeah, when I was little…I still remember…”
“So it looks like Kyoto, go somewhere you remember was there…”
“Ok…”
(He went to some park he remembered visiting with his mother, and then he was convinced it was Kyoto…)
“Yep, it definitely is Kyoto…”
“Now…how does it look??”
“Not quite different…”
“Look for somewhere where you can see the date…”
“That will be…anywhere…”
(He went inside a convenience store that was near there and saw the date…)
“So?”
“January 20th, 2056…”
“Fifty years in the future…that’s excellent…open them…I suppose, you can be on your own now, only if you have doubts you can come to me…”
“ONLY then??”
“Ah sorry…well, you got it…”
“Yeah…I have two more questions…”
“What might those be?”
“How do I close the Third Eye Chakra?”
“The character ’om’, recited as a mantra during one minute…but that’s for the general uses of the chakra, for the Fore-Seeing and All-Seeing, use the German method and it should do…”
“Ok…and can I move freely inside the scope of years I can see ahead? For example if right now I can see 50 years in the future, can I take a peek at 25??”
“Yes…it’s possible…”
“Excellent…”