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In the name of God

A child after months in its mothers womb recognises its creator
A child after birth slowly recognises its father and family
a child as it grows up is shown the gods and is taught religion
So it knows its parents,its knows its god
and yet it and many like it flock to others
to learn about god
from priests of temples to priests of churches
to imams ,to Tirthankaras they flock,they run
and yet it is not they who thrive
but the godmen they flock to
You knew who your parents are,you know your family
you choose and you know who your friends are
and yes you know who your foes are
and yet you don't know who god is
and you go searching for him
and you become tools in the hands of tools

Chapter 29

"The Edge [. . .] There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over." "Hell's Angels, Hunter S. Thompson

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction ... The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.---------Martin Luther King

White,red,brown,black,yellow and shades of all these make up the color of your skin,But underneath that the blood is the same color,the bones are arranged the same way and everything else in the human body is the same from the people living in the cold arctic to the pygmies of the kalahari desert.Observe quietly when you are passing through the airport and checking in your luggage.You will see people owning different suitcases of varying brands from italy,america and our very own desi brands of witco and vip. But it matters not for the machine scans only what is inside. we are just like those luggage pieces of varying shapes, sizes and makes and what is important is what goes on in our mind and the human factor, yes that which makes us human. The human factor which has launched us into space and landed on the moon, that human factor that has cured and found cures for deadly diseases, that human factor that strives for the betterment of this planet. But then again the very same human factor kills, maims, wages war and does all kind of sick things that even wild animals will hesitate to do.

Everyone is born with the capacity to be good or bad or in extreme cases downright evil. Sometimes we have to become evil to evil. But then it is not evil when you are fighting for the right and fighting on the side of weak and innocent.

Call to arms- 3 phone calls and one trap

You lost faith in the human spirit

You walk around like a ghost

Your star-spangled heart

Took a train for the coast

When you shine you're a hilltop mansion

So how'd you lose the light?

Was it blown by the wind,

In the still of the night?

The killers "battle born"

We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.--George Orwell

The cell phone rang and balaji with a grunt of pain reached out and picked it up and answered it.The voice sounded familiar but balaji did not immediately recognise the hello on the other side.He said 'yes,balaji here' and the voice said 'Balaji,can you hear me clearly.' Balaji replied and asked who it was calling him and the voice said Arjun.

Balaji shocked ' so the rat has finally crawled out of the sewer and into light.' Arjun chuckled ' well i have crawled out but i am going to crawl back in and you will follow me quietly or else your parents and the few others living along with them in your house will die in the next few minutes.I am sending you a video message which you can see and then you will come to the parking lot and get into the blue maruti car with plates TN09 AK 1345 on it.The keys are in the car and please wait for the person who will join you shortly. see you soon.'

Balaji was about to yell and tell him to go to hell when the message tone beeped and he opened the video message to see his parents held hostage by masked men with knives and other deadly weapons. Not knowing what to do but deciding to do what arjun had told him to do, balaji slowly dressed himself and quietly sneaked out of the floor and went down to the basement parking and found the car parked there.He got into the car and was wondering what to do when priya got into the passenger side.She was crying and obviously very worried about something and balaji thought that maybe her family was also in the same situation.

He looked at her " dont worry, i wont let anything happen to you' and priya asked him if he had gotten a video message and he nodded yes.

Balaji's mobile rang and picking it up he said ' you dont need priya or her family.so let her go and i promise i will come where ever you want me to come.

Arjun ' a gentleman even now, not bad. but sadly i need both of you for otherwise my plan will not work.so shut up and drive towards red hills and i will call you once you cross the ambattur junction with further details.and dont think of doing anything stupid for there are people following you and will report to me the instant you change the route i have given you. Now throw both your cell phones out of the car and reach into the glove compartment where you will find another mobile.But this mobile has only incoming call facility and so you can listen but not alert anyone else. Now throw the mobiles out and start driving.'

Balaji and priya threw their mobiles out and they drove out of the hospital and headed towards red hills.And unknown to them and arjun a car followed them and as usual the vehicles changed every ten minutes as not to alert anyone that they were being followed.

Dhana was in a cabinet meeting discussing issues regarding setting up desalination plants every 50 kms along the coast of tamilnadu. Although the costs were high, he was thinking about ways to power the plants by using tidal energy and wind energy.The central government were pretty keen on helping him for they were trying to recruit him into national politics and agreed to fund the projects .

Dhana 's mobile rang and he answered it with a hello without even looking at the screen. Dhana's face tightened with anger and worry and asking his team to continue with their talks he slowly walked out of the room into his private chambers.

Dhana ' Arjun, it is me you are after and you can do what you want with me.just let balaji and priya go.' Arjun ' I might just do that but only after my work is done. So watch the video i am sending you and decide if you want to come see me and most importantly if you want to save your friends.I know you just can't wriggle out of your work for then it will arouse everybody's curiosity and make them suspicious.so meet me in a couple of hours time and everything will be settled once for all.see you soon.'

Dhana opened the message and saw both balaji and priya tied to chairs in a place that looked like some abandoned factory.They looked okay and then the video ended.He closed his eyes and knew in his heart that tonight the story would end one way or another. Weary and with a heavy heart he called for his secretary and lied to him that he was going home to see his parents for his mother was not keeping well. He gave a few instructions and quickly walked out of his chambers.

The setting sun was strangely blood red in color and the light flooded the room and painted dhana as he sat quietly in meditation.He wanted to reach out and seek solace in his master but his mind told him that it would not matter for things were far gone for any help.Dhana was not scared for himself but more worried about priya and balaji.he had no clue as to what the mad man arjun had planned but in his soul he knew that he was ready to face any challenge that was thrown to him.

"The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment."- Bruce Lee

"Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend." Bruce Lee

Dhana slowly rose and bowing to the picture of his masters he reached into the cupboard and brought out the only weapon he knew that would be necessary and quietly got into the car that was waiting for him.In his worry about balaji and priya,dhana was still the chief minister of a state and there were protocols to be followed.The car took him to the house of his personal secretary and after going in, dhana slipped out of the back entrance and got into the car that was parked there for him by his people.He had told them to just do what was asked and not ask any questions and they had followed his instructions faithfully.Dhana's mobile rang and arjun told him where he had to come and also warned that if he was being followed then he would vanish but not before killing both balaji and priya.

In the darkness of night dhana drove towards red hills and then looked for landmarks and followed them and entered a muddy road which led to some abandoned factories.But unknown to even dhana a car tailed him and slowly entered the compound. A man got out and kept dhana in sight and discreetly watched as he entered a factory which was dimly lit.

Once upon a time

I swore I had a heart

Long before the world I know

Tore it all apart

Once upon a time

There was a part of me I shared

Years before they took away

The part of me that cared

I've been a thousand places

and shook a million hands

I don't know where I'm going

But I know just where I've been

I've flown a million miles

And I rode so many more

Everyday a castaway

A vagabond battle born

Battle born by five finger death punch

Chapter 30

Abhimanyu as planned raced headlong into the formation called padmavyuha or chakravyuha and his uncles bhima,nakula,yudhishthira followed swiftly. Drona the leader of the kaurava army had formed this complicated formation for he knew that apart from him only krishna, his son pradyumna,arjuna and his son abhimanyu knew how to break the formation but the fourth abhimnayu knew how to break it and enter but not how to get out. As planned the trigarthas challenged arjuna and they were led farther and farther away from battle. so with krishna and arjuna out of the scene it was left for the young abhimanyu to lead the pandavas into the padmavyuha.

The chariot carrying abhimanyu streaked like lightning into the formation of padmavyuha and abimanyu used a special technique and chanting a sacred mantra he rained arrows at the weakest points of the first layer of the formation and broke it. By the time the kauravas could bring more men and cover the gap that abhimanyu had created the young lad had broken in like a white hot lightning streak among dark clouds. Overjoyed and victorious abhimanyu turned and looked at his uncles and flashed a smile, a smile that was so beautiful,a smile that krishna had smiled when he was a boy,a smile krishna had smiled to woo the gopikas and a smile that mother earth gives when the first rain falls on her hot summer breasts and cools her body. Not waiting to see if his uncles were following into the gap he had created abhimanyu charged and entered the padmavyuha and that was the last the pandavas saw of him.But from outside and far away from the center of the battle which abhimanyu was raging they heard screams,groans and shouts of frustrations and understood that abhimanyu was destroying everything in his sight. Then a huge roar from the kauravas and yells of victory from their people made them realise that abhimanyu was no more. Bhima sank to the ground in despair for they all felt the soul of abhimanyu depart from this place called earth. Bhima and the rest of the pandavas died a small death at that moment for the sadness of abhimanyu dying and the guilt that they had let this happen and the fear of facing arjuna when he came back was like the weight of the earth on their shoulders.

Avenging Angel

The boy now five sat next to his mother holding her hand. The blind woman had forgotten that she was blind for her son was her light and eyesight. The boy remembered something and 'mother,they were talking about heroes in the temple today and names like arjuna,karna,bhima were spoken of and i stopped them and told them that you my mother was also a great hero.They laughed but it did not matter for i knew it and understood it and that will do.' The blind woman shook her head and asked her son why he thought of her as a hero. He looked at her in surprise ' why do you ask this of me as if you don't know what i meant when i called you my hero. You bore me for so many months in your body.even though you were blind you still nursed and have looked after me as well or even better than most parents can do and that too single handedly. what more or how else can i explain what i feel or why i feel you are my greatest hero.'

The blind woman smiled and said ' child, i knew than as i know now that you have come for a reason and i am just a pawn and i hope and pray that your purpose is fulfilled.'---------The boy who went into the dark and came back with light.

Dhana saw priya and balaji tied to the chairs they were sitting in.He looked at balaji who nodded to say they were all right and then looked at priya and smiled as if to say that it was going to be all right.

Sensing a movement in the corner of his eye dhana turned in that direction and saw arjun.He knew it was arjun although he looked very different.Strangely the physique and all that muscle that arjun had built in the gym with the help of steroids did not catch dhana's eyes but only his eyes.

Dhana smiled his own beautiful smile ' arjun, do you realise that you are punishing all of us and innocent people for a wrong that you committed and dont have the guts to accept it.It is not too late for you to realize what you have done is wrong and just surrender.I know you killed lavanya in anger and you blame me and balaji for that sin you committed.'

Arjun laughed loudly and looked at dhana ' i confess that i killed my sister with these hands.But did you know that i also killed maybe a nephew or it could have been a niece. so that makes it two murders.'

Dhana's eyes filled with tears and he looked at balaji who looked thunderstruck and was still trying to comprehend the enormity of the news that had just fallen in his ears.He stared at dhana and knew what arjun had said was true and that it was his child that arjun had murdered along with lavanya.The already burdened balaji sobbed and broke down.

Arjun laughed and cackled ' wow, this is good and better than i expected. so balaji did not know this and well this only makes my joy more and complete. Now i will just kill you before him and let him suffer more before i kill them too. You see i dont have much time for i have midnight flight to london to catch and as you know international flights are on time unlike our domestic flights and i have to report to the counter three hours in advance. so let us no waste time and begin what we both have come to do. I die then you all go home. But if you die then all of you die and i go to london for a well deserved holiday.'

Arjun removed his shirt and his huge muscles came into view and the sight would have made any normal human being tremble in fear.But then dhana was not a normal human being and arjun had yet to realise this or understand this.

Dhana observed arjun and knew immediately that arjun had learnt boxing and a few other self defence techniques.Arjun flexed and pumped his muscles and yet moved nimbly with the grace of a cat and dhana knew that he was in for the fight of his life and that everything he had learnt was going to be put to the test. And still his mind was clear and there was absolutely no fear of arjun or the fight he was getting in to. His mind raced with thousands of calculated moves and his eyes took in everything about the place they were in and he was readying himself with multiple options for a safe exit for priya and balaji.

Priya was really scared for dhana and looked at balaji who just winked at her as if to reassure her that it was going to be ok.

With a roar arjun charged at dhana who calmly stepped aside and let arjun charge past him as a matador would let a raging bull go past him.Arjun turned and then slowly moved forward with his hands before him in a classic boxing pose. just as he reached dhana,arjun shifted his weight on to his left foot and his left hand streaked like an arrow and the punch, a straight jab came towards dhana's chin.But dhana's chin was not there and the jab only met empty space.

Arjun roared 'coward then and coward now. stand like a man and fight without running away.'

Dhana smiled calmly and the calm seeped into his whole body and his mind recollected one significant quote from his favourite film ENTER THE DRAGON.

A good fight should be like a small play, but played seriously. A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready. Not thinking, yet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come. When the opponent expands, I contract. When he contracts, I expand. And when there is an opportunity, I do not hit. It hits all by itself.--Bruce Lee.

The mind. Everything comes down to the mind. The body is just a tool for the minds instructions, a means to an end. The mind is the CPU.Conquer the mind,control the mind and everything is easy and easily done. In the end the mind is the strongest muscle in your body and not your massive biceps or shoulders.