text: DIVI There lies this place beyond our grasp, a universe where there are no stars, no nebulas, and no planets except one. A lonely planet all by itself. It shares no sun with neighboring planets, it exists completely by itself in a vast nothingness. A planet much larger than our universes largest star, the planet known as “Infinity”. On this giant planet there is no water, no trees, no hot and no cold. Infinity has the perfect balance in temperature. The sky shines in the most spectacular color of blue. A human would die of pure joy just by staring into the sky. On the surface Infinity holds the greatest desert to ever exist. This desert covers the entire planet. It’s an endless magnificent desert that stretches far beyond anything we can imagine. The desert takes different shapes all across Infinity, it shines brighter than our sun in the region known as the white sands of “Anantprakash”. The “Varen” dunes that reach higher than Mt. Everest and sink lower than the Dead Sea. Far beyond the horizon of these dunes lie the desert flatlands. A place known as “Majeeda” where the flatlands extend endlessly in every direction with only the dunes surrounding them in the distance. It’s in these flatlands where we would find the lone life on this planet. In Majeeda there is a small shack which houses a very special creature. A creature that lives in complete solitude, a creature that shares this planet with no one else but loneliness itself. This creature is named “DIVI”, it has the unique ability to take the form of anything it wants. At times DIVI flies across the Varen dunes as a giant dragon and then sleds down them as a young child. DIVI loves to explore the desert plains of “Gila” as a cheetah, or soar high over the “Kuhld” belt as an eagle in search for a specific grain of sand. You see DIVI has a very unique purpose on this planet. DIVI’s purpose is to perfectly balance and shape each individual grain of sand on Infinity. DIVI has always been on this planet and it enjoys perfecting this eternal desert one grain at a time. On one particular day DIVI leaves its beautiful little shack as a short 80 year old man. He looks wise as his long beard hangs off his chin. He decides for his long trip to find his next grain of sand, that he wants to walk with a bit of a limp. For some reason DIVI thinks having a limp would give him more reason to walk with a cane, and DIVI really loves the idea of having a cane. DIVI limps slowly back into his shack and after a few moments comes back out with his cane. With a huge smile on his face he starts on his slow walk across the flatlands to locate his next grain of sand. DIVI walks for ages, taking small stops along the way to inspect grains of sand throughout the desert. As more time passes the joy on his face never leaves him, even when giant sand storms slam into him, he finds joy. He reaches his hands up into the storm and grasps a hand full of sand, but alas none of these grains are the ones he is looking for. As the storm ends the beautiful blue sky emerges, and DIVI decides to make another small stop. He slams his cane into the cracked dry desert ground and he takes a seat. He crosses his legs in the lotus position, and slowly starts to inspect the particles of sand around him. He slowly wipes his hand across the ground and picks up a hand full of sand, DIVI then starts to pour the sand into his other open palmed hand. He carefully watches each grain of sand as they slowly fall into his palm like a waterfall. DIVI’s eyes light up as he notices something. He starts to push around the grains in his hand as he finds the one grain he was looking for. He tightens his fist with the grain of sand in his hand and stands up. He is so elated he jumps for joy, hopping about in a circle, but then he clumsily drops the grain. With just a slight grunt of annoyance he gets on his knees and starts moving around the sand particles on the ground. He finally finds the grain again and carefully picks it back up. With a sigh of relief he wipes his brow and places the grain in a small pouch on his belt. DIVI grabs his cane and start walking back towards his shack. Much time goes by when he finally returns back to his little home, as he enters his shack he places his cane against the wall near the front entrance. He takes a seat on a creaky old wooden chair by a worn wooden table and takes out his pouch. He turns the pouch upside down and all sorts of little things fall out of it. Sitting on the table now is an old copper penny, a button, a clothespin, some string, a piece of lint, a green gem, and the grain of sand. He picks up the grain of sand and walks over to an empty spot in his shack. DIVI then lays the sand in a wooden bowl and places it on the floor directly in front of his feet. He sits down on the floor behind the bowl crossing his legs as he did earlier. He closes his eyes and places each hand on his knee, pressing his index and thumb fingers together. The entire planet goes still, no storms, no sound of the wind blowing the sands, just silence and DIVI starts to make an “OHM” sound. The sound resonates and echoes onto the entire planet. The wooden bowl in front of him starts to shake and the grain of sand starts to rise from the bowl. The grain is lumpy and oddly shaped. It continues to rise until its floating directly in front of his brow. The grain of sand starts to glow and DIVI can now see into it, the grain of sand is not sand at all. It contains an entire universe within it, a universe as vast and endless as our own. An unbelievably unbalanced universe, and he must balance it. Just like he has done for an eternity with all the other grains of sand across the planet Infinity. Each individual grain on this entire planet holds in it its own universe. Universes that are very similar with only slight differences. Universes where life cannot exist. Universes where heaven and hell battle each other for power. Universes where the god of Thunder rules over his land. Universes where turtles swim through space laying eggs that are planets. Every imaginable possibility has its own universe placed within a single grain of sand and DIVI must balance them all. As DIVI looks deeper into this grain he can see billions of years in an instant. He must enter his consciousness into this grain. This universe will take an eternity to shape but for DIVI it will only be moments. He must reshape every particle, atom, molecule, chemical, life, and soul within this Universal grain in order to make it perfectly balanced. DIVI will experience all there is to experience within this entire universe, and as time passes he will evolve and reshape the universe until it becomes one within itself to create perfect harmony. DIVI will experience pride, faith, envy, hope, gluttony, charity, lust, fortitude, wrath, justice, greed, prudence, sloth, and temperance. He will fall pray to ignorance and feel the isolation of wisdom. He will be the tortured and the torturer. DIVI will feel the pain of betrayal and the healing of forgiveness. Once DIVI aligns every single vibration of this Universal grain over an eternity he will feel an ultimate love which will release him from his trance. DIVI becomes the entire grain, everything that inside of this universe is him. The only way he can fully enter into this universe, he must strip away his divine nature. At the entrance into this universe there is a gate. This gate is called the “EGO” and it will wipe away his memory and his being will be scattered across the entire universe and placed inside everything that exists in it. Who DIVI is will be imprinted upon everything and as time moves on, these pieces will slowly come together like a magnet, aligning everything into perfect harmony. Over billions upon billions of years this cycle ends and DIVI opens his eyes. The grain of sand is now perfectly round. There are no lumps or odd shapes on it anymore. DIVI has just experienced an eternal cycle in a matter of moments. The grain falls back onto the wooden plate. The outside door now opens and as DIVI steps out of the shack, he is no longer the old man he is now a she, a little girl. With the pouch on her side she starts to skip away until she reaches the very place she found the grain of sand. She pulls it out of her pouch and gently places it on the ground. She knows she is never alone, she is happy. She felt ultimate love once more. She knows she can experience and be anything she wants and all she has to do is pick up a grain of sand. The End.