EDT~ep.116~ 2.4.18 My stance ~ Till we meet again
Parting from loved ones is always heart breaking. Why must good things come to an end.but then again, good things happen to ones who wait...
Shiv s final cry of being denied a humanly final embrace,even moves the benign Mother goddess.. Shiv's nuturing mother's heart melts ,she grants Shiv and Sharanya their last embrace, all sealed with a final kiss of endearment. A kaliedoscope of past sweet memories surround Shiv and Sharanya. What bitter sweetness was this final moment. Soothing,yet smarting. How their arms latch on to each other,wishing permanence to their final embrace. Their hearts pay homage to the invincible mother goddess for granting them a proper send off..
But Shiv's optimism and empowering Sharanya never falls short. He yet again consoles her with a promise.. consider this as a short period of seperation.. till we meet again, so my beloved, stay strong ,I will return, for Shiv and Sharanya's love is perpetual and not bound by life or death. Love lives on, picks up from where it leaves and once again sustains and continues. Then all the animate worldy items related to Shiv are set alight,to symbolize, his eventual exit from this mortal world into the realms of the hereafter.. Shiv's verses resound in the flames of the funeral pyre..smoke rising towards the heavens.. " like the separation of the soul from the body. Like the noise of the silence " Iam leaving this world."Let me bid you a final goodbye... farewell my love, my Sharanya ,my prayer is may all your wishes come true.. from now on you have to live without me... till ,we meet again,I promise , I will return..
Shiv smiles at his mother, forgive me mother,couldn't stay longer.. but then again , I consider myself lucky, that in my final moments ,I have around me all the people that I love..Shiv smiles his resigned smile and reminds his Sharanya, just remember Shiv will always be Sharanya's in every rebirth.. and she weeping, responds, yes as Sharanya too will be Shiv's.. forever! Shiv reluctanly prepares to leave Sharanya with a smile on his face.. his verses cry out his regret to her..maybe we were not destined to be together."But you ruled the beats of my heart.You were the reason for me to live after death.Sharanya you were my past. you are my present, and if I get a life again after this death..then you will be my future as well..Sharanya's Shiv! Shiv's Sharanya! Shiv exits into nothingness.. Sharanya weeps devestated, she knows her love has gone.. his mother too sees,when her son merges into vacant space. But within their hearts and souls he continues to be.. the two women who love Shiv cling to each other... and Vyom holds them both,as he watches the tongues of fire swaying on Shiv's symbolic pyre!
Vyom breathes a sigh of relief.. so much so for Shiv and his ghost! His chapter now closes,leaving him to work on making Sharanya experience the love of a human as opposed to a spirit. for Sharanya only belongs to Vyom, yesterday ,today and in times to come only Vyom... good bye Shiv.. till we meet again.. hamlet53.. 3.4.18