Today I completed a Japanese famous manga called “Itihāsa”. It is a mighty, magical and spiritual fantasy (science fiction) of ancient Japan which describes the conflict among Ashins（亞神）and Ishins（威神）, gods/goddesses of good and bad, respectively. People that obey the law of Ashins live soft and calm lives, however, that obey Ishins live coarse and savage lives. Of course they made conflicts. The former causes law, and the latter chaos. However, there were another mysterious group of gods/goddesses, ‘invisible gods/goddesses’（目に見えぬ神々）. The whole story is finally devoted to approaching the intended wills of those ‘invisible gods/goddesses’. As deduced from the title, the story is very likely inspired by saṃskṛta ideas, such as saṃsāra/transmigration（輪廻転生） and also some sort of Buddhism. ‘itihāsa’ means history. The main theme of the story is, not every person is saved merely based on harmonic law or satisfaction fulfilled by their own desires. As in Mahāyāna Buddhism, there are difficulties about diversity of their own situations. The story focuses on the importance of the people that obey neither group of gods/goddesses, in sabbe saṅkhārā aniccā/vicissitudes（諸行無常）. To this aim, the desire for knowledge, or foreseeing is a solid force to the advancement of people. Of course we still do not tell good and bad from social biological theories. The current set of law is laws of provisional, not the absolute ones. The story concludes the people’s characteristic as ‘evolutionary anti-harmony against entropy’ and the story itself is an example of experiments by ‘invisible gods/goddesses’, like many other science fictions. The real world of endless broadness is for the people with desire for knowledge, neither with the hand of law/chaos. This obscures the self and others, results in sarva-dharma-anaatman（諸法無我）.
