The Karmic Architect
Chapter 1 — When the Sky Began Chanting
Sriharikota, India.
02:17 AM.
Dr. Arvind Rao did not believe in gods.
He believed in propulsion equations, orbital decay, and measurable constants.
So when the sky began chanting, he assumed the machine was broken.
The deep-spectrum receiver array had been tracking cosmic microwave background fluctuations for six months. The signal tonight was different.
It was structured.
Periodic.
Layered.
He zoomed in.
Seven harmonic bands.
Each nested inside the other like concentric shells.
Not noise.
Not radiation drift.
Pattern.
"Overlay ancient phonetic database," Arvind said calmly.
The AI hesitated for 0.8 seconds.
Match probability climbed.
41%.
63%.
88%.
Text appeared on screen.
ॐ अग्निमीळे पुरोहितं
A Rigvedic invocation.
Arvind did not react emotionally.
Instead, he opened a secondary terminal.
Private partition. Air-gapped.
File name: RTA-STRUCTURE
For twelve years, alongside propulsion research, he had studied:
Vedas as vibrational science
Upanishads as consciousness architecture
Puranas as historical dimensional records
Not spiritually.
Mathematically.
He had long suspected the Sapta-Loka model described layered frequency domains.
Tonight, the sky confirmed it.
Then his vision flickered.
A translucent geometric interface unfolded before his eyes.
Not holographic.
Not retinal projection.
It existed inside perception itself.
▣ RTA INTERFACE ACTIVATED
User: Arvind Rao
Karmic Projection: 5 / 5
Projection Range: 72 Hours
He did not panic.
He observed.
A thought surfaced:
Report anomaly immediately.
Golden threads branched outward in front of him.
Three timelines unfolded.
Path 1 – Government Disclosure
→ Media frenzy in 36 hours
→ Religious riots across three states
→ 417 confirmed deaths
Projection ends.
Path 2 – Total Suppression
→ Underground cult formation
→ First Preta manifestation in Kolkata
→ 3,082 casualties
Projection ends.
Path 3 – Controlled Anonymous Academic Leak
→ Confusion
→ Debate
→ Failed ritual attempt
→ 12 casualties
Projection ends.
The golden threads collapsed.
He selected Path 3.
Three days.
He could see three days ahead.
Nothing more.
Nothing less.
His breathing remained steady.
On his monitor, the lowest harmonic spiked again.
The AI generated new classification:
Preta-Bhuvar Resonance Detected
Across the planet, subtle disturbances began.
In Athens, lightning struck a clear sky twice in the same place.
In Kyoto, a shrine mirror cracked without impact.
In Cairo, a tomb chamber temperature dropped to near freezing.
In Varanasi, a cremation flame refused to extinguish.
Different cultures.
Different myths.
Same frequency shift.
Arvind opened a global archive.
He cross-referenced:
Greek Olympians – Devaloka tier
Norse Aesir – Devaloka tier
Jinn classifications – Preta/Asura crossover
Dragon myths – Naga-Tala resonance
Not separate pantheons.
Regional interpretations of layered reality.
India had preserved the map.
Others preserved stories.
His interface flickered again.
▣ LOKA OVERLAP PROBABILITY
Bhuloka Stability: 92%
Preta-Layer Bleed: Rising
Estimated Global Awakening Window: 71 Hours
He leaned back.
No excitement.
No fear.
Only calculation.
If Lokas were frequency states, then karma was exchange value between them.
Energy moved when events happened.
Belief amplified resonance.
Death destabilised layers.
Governments would not understand this.
Religious institutions would weaponise it.
Foreign powers would attempt containment or exploitation.
He ran another projection.
If India publicly reveals full Sapta-Loka framework?
Timeline branched violently.
Mythological Cold War within 72 hours.
International ritual arms race.
Mass civilian destabilisation.
Projection terminated early.
He closed it.
Too volatile.
The sky above Sriharikota pulsed once.
Unseen by most.
But satellites recorded gravitational micro-variance.
Something was pressing against the membrane of Bhuloka.
Not invading.
Testing.
His system displayed one final notice:
▣ SATYA-LAYER ACCESS: DORMANT
Condition: Unknown
Interesting.
He stood up and turned off the main lights.
The ocean outside was calm.
Too calm.
Three days.
Within three days, the first stable manifestation would occur somewhere in the world.
He would not stop it.
He would measure it.
Because if reality was layered—
It could be modelled.
If it could be modelled—
It could be controlled.
And if karma governed all exchanges—
Then eventually,
Even destiny could be rewritten.
The sky pulsed again.
And for the first time in recorded history,
All mythologies were about to become data.
Arvind Rao adjusted his glasses.
And began recording.