My seventh heaven!

Roughly every five minutes I would hear a familiar roaring noise surround me. Large shadows of aeroplane after aeroplane covered the city’s vegetation. I watched as the aircraft’s shadow brought a swift, moving shade -- respite from the blazing summer sun for those trees, I thought. The seventh floor does offer an interesting perspective!

Kathri maasum in India -- the hottest days of the year according to the Hindu calendar has passed. The 14-day Agni Nakshatram (the worst of Summer) is believed to be over now. Temperatures have dropped a wee bit, but not enough to say: 'no sweat'! 

The seventh floor of a public library has been my refuge for the Spring-Summer months. I'm perched on a corner chair watching the winged-shadows move like floating clouds. The trees that shield us from harsh sunlight have a chance to receive some shade, it seems. 

It couldn’t have been by chance that Kabbalah regard the Seventh Heaven as the highest of heavens, I'm sure. God is most exalted here -- it is believed -- and angels dwell. It is THE place to be peaceful, and think, then write – the ultimate heaven for doctorate pursuers.

I could have chosen any floor -- entry to the eighth is disallowed -- I settled with the seventh -- among historians, geographers and biographers. I spend hours (up to ten some days), in the rarest of company, besides a glass window that overlooks a grand part of Madras city.   

It never even crossed my mind to enter the first and second heavens – the first is always the most crowded and gloomy, and the second ‘heaven’ is supposed to have ‘fire, snow and ice ready for the day of divine ordinance’ -- so, it's kind of crampy really. 

Tried the third and the forth for a day each -- they host ‘armies’ of subjects that complicate the ‘spirit’. The incident of a zombie-like character seated opposite me at the fourth-heaven study table was persuasive experience -- enough to consider moving to the higher heavens rather quickly! Simply skipped the fifth heaven; peeped through the glass doors of the sixth just once -- there were ‘angels’ and they were (noisy) busy -- going about their business not really caring how it affected other heaven seekers. 

So, seventh it was -- here is the ‘great glory’ -- far above all heavens. The Keys to Kaballah #librarylife here I’ve found!