Once upon a time there was a tribe. A tribe
with wise men and women. Tribe’s affair was seen by them collectively with
mutual consultation. Tribe has been gifted with nature’s bounty and plenty was
available for them to live their life peacefully. Power struggle was unknown to
them as their desires were supplemented by contentment with the resource
available to them.
Tribe had a gift from their ancestors – A gift
of knowledge in form of “knowledge of tree”. This tree has been bestowing
wisdom to tribe for centuries. The mere presence of tree had empowered tribe
with ancient knowledge of art of living.
In their perfect heaven there existed two
beautiful children – Adam and Eve. They lived happily by complying the simple
custom of tribes and continuously growing to join the league of wise men and
women.
Once a creature from far away land came to
this magical land. It was astonished to see the perfect balance of life in this
strange land. It came to know about “Knowledge of tree”. It assumed that knowledge
of tree is the secret of the happiness of this land and if it could have a byte
from the Tree’s fruit then it could also achieve that happiness.
So it went to tree to pluck the fruit but
while doing so it was cornered by Adam and Eve. Both children were astonished
as no one in tribe ever bothered to pluck the fruits from knowledge tree. They
offered the creature delicious fruits from other trees.
Adam asked it: Why are you plucking that
fruit, it’s not eatable. If you are hungry we have lots of trees with delicious
fruits, I can bring those to you.
Creature felt as if it was caught while
doing a crime. It did not know why it felt that as it was not committing any
crime or breaking any rule. But somewhere inside it told him that whatever it
was trying to do is not good. But it wants to be as happy as tribe’s people so
it ignored its inner voice and decided to misguide the children
It told them: This is the tree of wisdom,
its fruit might not be delicious but it will make you wiser than others. You
can rule others by being superior to them, so take it with me and you can make
the world better place to live.
Children were surprised with its talk but
they took it as they did not see any harm in tasting a fruit. The creature
happily left the land by accomplishing its goal. Children returned to home.
By eating fruit of wisdom they gained a
different wisdom with a different view of world where they can exploit the
resources more and bring more comfort to their tribes. They started planning as
they thought it was in best interest of their tribes. The elder of tribes were
worried about the children’s idea and they warned them against it.
As the time went Adam and Eve grew more ambitious
and they thrived to prove themselves to the elders of their tribe. By sensing
the impending danger elders of tribe called for the council. Eve advocated her
ideas passionately as she believed that it will bring more happiness in tribe.
But Adam sensed the opportunity to discredit Eve and implement his plans. He
told tribe that he is ready to relinquish his ambitious plans as he took byte
of fruits of knowledge tree on insistence of Eve, and for the moment he was
blinded by the magic of fruit but he can see the consequences clearly now, so
he is ready to subjugate to tribes rule.
Elders were elated by Adam’s subjugation
and angry with Eve’s persistence. Tribe gave the verdict and for the first time
in history they ask Eve to obey Adam. And from their started the subjugation of
many Eves. Though intension of Adam was only his personnel conquest which he
thought was in his tribe’s interest but he started a precedent unintentionally
which has been continuing for time immemorial.
And since then the human lived unhappily ever
after L
Note: Please pardon the plain unstory like
language, I am not a story writer J
