Trials Of Fire Adni Untold Saga Chapter 14 Part2
IPK3 Season 1 Episode 84
Somewhere in early hours before the dawn, it was absolutely still outside...A calm after the storm or maybe a calm impending another storm...The air felt weirdly melancholy...bringing a dead swarm in heart... She was suddenly woken up...a feeling of something amiss in her sleep laden body...She was hardly able to focus. What was it?...What was missing? His hand around her?...that's it! Where is he? With a shocking awakening, she jolted up suddenly.
There he was!... sitting on the ground next to the lounger...a deafening silence, a suffocating emptiness in air around him...his face, absolutely still yet reflecting the pain of his soul... his eyes, in a distant look yet a mirror of his misery...his tears, rolling down his cheeks burning his temples...anguish emanating from every pore...worlds lost within him...his heart lost... wind rose somewhere far in a desert and blew across the wide expanse to sear through his heart...the heart roaming in darkness, grasping the night and wrapping it around!
It's about his parents...whispers of his past... the past that can never ever be undone...she was filled with total penitence...This pain on his face, in his eyes, in his heart...something always there behind the happy mask he wore during the day...all that pain residing in his core, in his soul, was somehow rooted to her; her doing whether happened innocently or otherwise; yet it had been HER doing... Every night, without fail, had brought the same pain back for past sixteen years.........and that meant five thousand eight hundred and forty four nights...each night of misery making his soul turn to ashes...each night of pain causing a death of breath in him...not all her love, her heart, her body, nothing that was in her capacity could ever alleviate that pain...never in life would she able to give him any solace from his misery... She got up from the bed and walked slowly up to him to stand before him...tears rolled down her eyes ...honest tears of remorse, of empathy, of love beyond...they fell on his face and mixed with his tears...touching him,connecting her pain to his...adhering her soul to his... he looked up at her, suddenly realising she was there...a call of his present!
He noticed her tears immediately and knew the reason behind them. He held her hand tenderly pulling her down beside him... "I am sorry,Chandu. It's not about you. It's about me, my heart..." The tenderness in his voice, the care in his loving touch on her palm, nothing would convince her tonight...She just continued crying silently... for his parents having faced such tragic end... for him having faced tragedy at such young age...for the barrenness of deserted time of their separation. ...tears rolled down both their eyes in total darkness engulfing their hearts.
"Pata nahi Chandu, yeh sab kyun hua? Kya hua? Kyun hum dono iss tarha fasaaye gaye jindagi se? Tumhari galati nahi thi, tum nasaamajh allhad thee, par fas hum dono gaye, poori tarhasse."
(Don't know Chandu, why all this has happened? What Happened? Why we both were cheated by life like this? It wasn't your fault, you were young, you were naive, yet both of us were robbed, completely!)
"Haan, Dev...Kabhi kabhi lagata hai jaise Uss Aurat ko jail mein daalkar bhi humaara man swasth nahi, shaant nahi... Aur shaayad kabhi hogabhi nahi!"
(Yes Dev Sometimes I feel even after putting that woman in jail, our mind is not at peace......and perhaps will never be!)
"Chandu, maine abhi tak maa-baba ki asthiyaan bhi visarjit nahi kee... kahi koi kami lagati hai, kuchh galat lagata hai... yeh bhavana dilse jaati nahi, sukoon milata nahi! Andar hi andar ek ajeeb si ghutan hai, koi tag-mag..."
(Chandu, I haven't dispersed Maa-Baba's ashes.....I feel like something is missing, something is not correct.....the feeling does not go from my heart, the peace does not come. Deep inside there's turmoil....)
Memories. smokes and scars...memories that never went away...that scarred you completely...leaving you incapable of feeling anything else...
He had stayed prisoner of his memories for so long; trust and love forever an issue...that's why even when his Miku and his Chandu openly offered love, he had not been able to trust...but Somewhere along the way, he now felt the need to share his unbearable pain, he knew he could trust; he knew she would understand...though nobody could really do anything about the pain...In absolute despair, she kept her head on his thigh...he slowly reached out and caressed her hair lovingly, the love flowing to her giving him life back again...
There was something assuring in his caress that her innermost feelings came on her lips.
"Yeh mere jindagi ki sabse badi haar hai, Dev... ki main jo bhi kuchh karoon, tumhari jindagi ki yeh kami kabhi nahi poori kar paaungi."
(This is the biggest defeat of my life, Dev......that whatever I do, I will not be able to fulfil this gap in your life.)
"Don't say that, Chandu. Life is because you are there! Where was I living before? You are my purpose to live. You have brought my lost world back to me... you wrap my darkness in your moonlight... Main andheri raat hoon; par tum meri Chandni ho!"
(I'm the dark night, you're my Chandni)
With tear streaked face, he bent down and kissed her in absolute love... a deep kiss reaching to her inner light, the light her soul lay in... her love grasping his phantom shadows of past and wrapping them in her shining faith...things were going to be alright, they together would make things alright...A timeless moment lingered by!
Morning tiptoed slowly in the room; as both lay spooned against each other... He stirred in his delirium as sun rays fell on his face...Inadvertently, he went over her and shielded her face with his body... She looked most beautiful in her exhausted sleep... her lips still swollen from passion assault on them...he remembered her abandoned hug in the rain...
He remembered the antakshari she had sung last night... now was his turn perhaps...and yes!
His heart knew what it wanted to sing...
Tujhe dekh dekh sona
Tujhe dekh kar hai jagana
Maine yeh jindagaani
Sang tere bitaani
Tujh mein basi hai meri jaan
(sleeping while watching you, I wanna rise just watching you, I wanna spend my entire life with you, my life lies in you)
She opened her eyes and asked, "Vaada?"
"Hun?"
"Vaaadaaa????"
How did she know what he had sung in his heart? Their souls could hear each other, was it? So even in her sleep she had heard his heart singing... he kissed her on her forehead and promised,
"Vaada!"
He was just about to start again when she pushed him...
"Govardhan pooja hai, mujhe bahut saara kaam hai aur Bhaidooj bhi hai, aapkobhi kaam hain! Chaliye hatiye... mujhe jaana hai."
(It's Govardhan Pooja today, I have lots of work to do and it's Bhaidooj, too; so even you have work! Come on, let go......I need to go)
He knew that she was right. He shifted releasing her from under him. She proceeded to the bathroom. When she came out he was right at the door waiting... As she stepped out... fresh and fragrant from bath... he pulled the towel from her hand... he put it on her wet head and rubbed again...
"Kya kar rahe hain?" (What are you doing?)
She was exasperated. He had done the same thing last night, too. And she didn't like standing in front of him with her hair scattered all over her face.
"Kal kuchh karne ko jee chaha tha; voh ab karna chaahata hoon!" (yesterday, my heart desired to do something; wanna do it now!)
His voice was a sexy drawl... His fingers curled in a hypnotic arch and came to her face...Seductively slowly softly he pushed his fingers through her hair...his passion, slow yet sensual, reaching her through his fingertips...his desire claiming his right on her morning look, a ravishing beauty...inadvertently, her toes curled... she was completely aroused by his single touch...her body refused to listen to her brain... her heart raced!
His fingers moved down her face slowly grazing on her lips...he traced her lip line with his thumb...the desire was burning in both of them now...he bent his face to claim her lips...
"CM... Sweet CM" there were bangs on the door.
Startled, he pulled up. Both exclaimed simultaneously,"Aadi!"
And then burst out laughing... they wouldn't dare send the boy away again. Laughing, Advay opened the door and hugged the happy boy.
"How are you, SuperAadi?"
"I am fine, CM. What has happened to Sweet CM's hair?"
Chandni had not had time to comb her hair. Advay felt lucky that he was still hugging Aadi; so Aadi couldn't see the complete blush on his face.
"Come here, Aadi." Chandni spread out her arms and called out to him. Aadi pulled himself out of Advay's hug and ran to Chandni. Chandni hugged him lovingly.
"Maami, what happened to your hair?" Aadi would not let goof his query. Advay blushed all the more.
"Aadi, I had gone for a bath but as I was coming out, a ghost stopped me."
Advay looked at her sharply, 'Am I a ghost,' his eyes asked Chandni.
"Maami, there are no ghosts in this world. Don't you knowthat yet?" Aadi got into his patronising avatar.
"Oh! I thought there were. I get very scared of them. Willyou save me if he comes again?" She feigned an innocent scared look.
"Of course, I will. I will protect you! Let the ghost come,I'll show him what's my Sansani. Vaat lagaa doonga uski. He won't dare come near you again." A pompous Adi claiming his prowess.
Advay's brows were going higher and higher with aadi's every sentence. He looked at Chandu with complaint in his eyes.
"No Aadi. Actually, I like that ghost. He's very friendly!"
Aadi pulled himself away from sweet CM and ran to CM.
"This sweet Chandni Mami has gone a little mad or something?" He quietly whispered in CM's ears.
"No Super Aadi, she is not a little mad..." He looked purposefully at Chandu, "She's absolutely totally completely mad!"
Chandu rolled her eyes and feigned an angry look at Dev. Dev gave her a look back, I always win!'. To Aadi he explained further,
"She starts imagining people as ghosts...Tomorrow, she might think of you as ghost.How will you protect her from yourself?"
Aadi was left wondering at CM's very right question perhaps!
Shilpa knocked on the door. "Bhabhi, aapko Naani bula rahi hai." (Naani is calling you, Sis)
Both Chandu and Dev looked at each other... an eloquent silence between them...She dreaded but he consoled...I'll protect you, I'll be with you his eyes said...
Naani was in the dining area. Chandni hesitated, self created burden of remorse eating her up. Naani would not be very happy about her misdoings last evening.Naani sensed the presence of Chandni behind her and came rushing to hug her, a rage and roil of emotions palpable in her hug.
"Where had you gone, Chandni beta? Are you Okay? You got me so worried! If anything was to happen to you?" naani cried bitterly.
In that tight hug, in those tears of a loving grandma, in those emotional questions... Chandni found what her heart had yearned for life...a mother's true love!
She hadn't received such love even after returning from a life threatening kidnap... she had craved for it through every action of hers since childhood but never found it... And today, out of nowhere, suddenly life had given it to her on a silver plate...
Chandni hugged Naani with all her heart, wanting to stay in that motherly embrace longer... not letting the motherly touch slip away from her. "naani!... She could barely speak with all emotions roiling in her heart...
Could life be this good after all these years... the last she remembered happiness was when as a child she played with Dev in haveli, his mother hugged her with love and care... then the horrid separation, the confusing , confounding ignorance about everything, realisation that her stepmother did not love her from heart, the horrid kidnap, then the coming of ASR, his angry altercations with her, her blackmail marriage, her losing family, her realisation of Advay being Dev but he refusing to accept her, the Sasha phase... and after that now suddenly so much happiness of finding a family where she belonged truly... the sense of belonging giving a reason to her heart to smile!
The man having reached there to protect his love, his wife just watched the duo...motherly affection of his life embracing the love of his life...If last night of passionate unifying was one dimension of his sense of belonging, this the absolutely unrestrained showering of love within the family was the other dimension, making him belong again!...
Had the past not happened, had Maa been alive, she would accept and embrace Chandu the same way as Naani had embraced her. Pooja, Maasi, Miku all giving the same love and acceptance to Chandni... this house has become a home... As Shivaay mentioned when I bought this place.
"Both of you, you and Chiku, when will you give some peace to my heart? Hasn't life given enough trouble that you, my most loved ones, add to it? Pahale voh apne man ki marji karata tha; mujhe takaleef hoti thee. Ab tu apne man ki marji karati hai, jaanati bhi hai, mujhe kitna dukh hota haitumhari harkaton se?"
(Initially, he always did his will; I was troubled.Now you do what your heart wants, do you realise at all, how much it pains me?)
Naani's voice was rising, pain gripping her face.Suddenly, Naani felt extremely tired. Advay rushed to her and helped her take a seat.
" Naani, relax. Please! Sab theek hai. Hum dono theek hai! Aap pareshaan mat hona!"
(Everything is Ok. We both are ok. Don't trouble yourself!)
Advay was anxious about his grandma's health.
"Chandni beta, tu mere ghar ki lakshmi hai. You are the laxmi of this house.....I had told you yesterday, right? Yet when I checked with Pooja in the morning, I got to know these details. Why did you leave the house like that? That too, in a storm?"
" Naani, I am sorry. I am genuinely sorry. It was absolutely wrong of me to put all of you in concern and pain... all of you who are now my loving family...I went on my ego trip and Dev had to rush to bring me back... a man who loves me more than his own self...a mother like you who has only love to give... a sister like Pooja... a devar like Miku... I put everybody in pain just because he yelled at me... I failed to realise that it's me where all his anger, his love, his hopes are attached."
"Yes Chandni, you, above all, must understand that my Chiku is pristine in his heart and loves you completely... he has suffered so much pain in life that a single thought of losing Aadi made him panic..."
"Yes Naani, You are right. More than anybody, I should have understood the kind of tie that he has with Aadi. I should not have taken his burst out to heart so much. I know how much he loves Aadi. To what length, he can go for Aadi." Chandni had become extremely emotional.
" Bas Chandni, enough now!" Dev cut Chandu from saying anything further.
Pooja had been observing everything from behind. Suddenly,she realised, there was something that perhaps she didn't know but Chandni knew about Bhaiyya and Aadi. She made a mental note to ask Chandni someday; because Bhaiyya would never ever tell what was the secret.
" I just want to ask both of you to please forgive me. I will never ever let such thing happen from my end again." Chandni folded her hands
"Both you and Chiku should once for all register in your minds that both of you wronged each other yesterday. Don't ever let such incident recur in your lives! Learn to be prakriti and purush, always meant to come together." Naani advised both.
" Yes, Naani! Both spoke together."
" And what am I, Super Naani ?" A boisterous Aadi came and hugged his Naani.
"You, our beloved Ganesha!" Lovingly Naani hugged Aadi back.
"But Ganesha was Mahadev Parvati's son. I have been here even before CM and Sweet CM came. How's that feasible?" Aadi was perplexed. If they were his mother and father, how come he was born even before they got married.
"because Ganesh has come before Prakriti and Purush.
Aavirbhootam Cha Srushtya dou, Prakrute-purushaat param!" Lovingly Chandu explained Hugging Aadi.
" Matalab?"
" Meaning, Ganesh has incarnated himself before the Prakritiand Purush!
"I don't understand Maami. Aadi was unable to get the real perspective behind. Neither do I, thought Advay.
"Chandni, you must explain this after govardhan pooja today. Naani told Chadni. Then she turned to Aadi, " And Aadi, from tomorrow onward, you must come to meet me before going to your CM. You mentioned you like your nana's clothes, the feeling of warmth in them. You can enjoy that and I shall tell you a lot of stories of Ganesha. Important for you to know." Aadi was elated with the idea of story time every morning.
Taking her seat in dining, Pooja smiled at Naani's intelligence to give Bhaiyya Bhabhi sufficient private time. Chandni and Advay tried hard hiding their blush.
"Are we going to have any breakfast? Where is that younger brother of mine? Advay asked.
"Twice I tried waking him up, Twice Shikha... But laatsahaab so rahe hain abhi bhi!" Pooja answered. (he's still snoring away)
" Sir, breakfast is ready. We were waiting for Bhabhi to arrive." Shilpa came to the dining to serve.
"Shilpa, you call Chandni Bhabhi now. Why do you continue calling me Sir? As such, YOUR Murli calls me Bhaiyya and is like my younger bro." Advay purposefully stressed on your Murli. Shilpa blushed completely.
"Iss Matar ke daane ke saath humara koi rishta nahi, Bhaiyya!" Murli made a face.
(I don't have any relation with this peanut)
"Toh Kya? Ho jaayega!" (So what? It will happen!)
Everybody spoke together and laughter spread in the air.
"Jab dekho mujhe chidhata rahata hai!" muttered Shilpa while serving. (Every time he teases me)
"Sab mard ek jaise hote hain, Shilpa! All men are alike!"
Shikha arrived and spoke angrily, "Chidhaane ke sivaa inhe aata hi kya hai? (what else do they do apart from getting angry)
"Bhaiyya, he has forgotten all about Bhaidooj! I think I'll have to do aarti for you , god knows when he'll arrive. Pooja shook her head knowing how Miku was.
"No Pooja, he has specially asked for the right. Let him have it! I'll go and call him. A smiling Advay told Pooja and was just about to get up when Miku arrived from behind.
"Didi, mere Bhai hai voh! Praan jaaye par vachan na jaaye! That's his life motto. Aarti to pahale meri hi hogi.
(Sis, he's MY bro! He'll give his life but not violate his promise. First, my Aarti)
Veer was in his usual filmy mood, "And I am Bhai's Shashi Kapoor! Hum gayab honewalon mein se nahi hai. Jahaan bhi jaate hain, jalwe dikhaate hain, dost to kya, Dushman bhi yaad rakahate hain! Kyon Shikha?"
"All your Jalwaas, I have already seen and don't you forget,you could never ever scare me!" Shikha retorted back. Everybody smiled.
"Kitna bolata hai yeh! Come Miku, have breakfast first.Aarti tumhaari pahale kar loongi main." Pooja smiled at her younger Bro.
"When did you two start loving each other?" Inquired a genuinely interested Advay.
"With my "Two weeks, Ladaki fix mission, Bhai!"
"Not at all! I had guessed all your bluffs already. That was failed mission. Jiju, he's not smart like you!"
"Bhai and smart? When I asked him first about Bhabhi as to who she was of his, he was just caught into "Voh meri... Voh meri..." teased Miku.
Advay blushed with the memory of the day. How angry I had been with misunderstanding about Chandani as to why she went to my guest house.How easily impressionable was I thanks to my biases. How I challenged her all the time, goaded her about marrying me. Yet, when Miku had asked me about her I had fumbled for words.
Chandni smiled with the same memory. How cleaving they hadbeen to each other. She had misunderstood regarding the passports and he abouther visit. She pounced on him, he barked at her, She challenged him, hechallenged her back, she advanced at him like a fighting cat, he advanced onher like a ferrocious lion. They were against each other but never able toleave each other alone.
"Mere Saamne to bade sher banke aate the! Devarjee, youknow, everytime he stared at me with his angry eyes... Katkhanne bankarghoorate the mujhe!Chandni was in a teasing mood now. Dev glared at her, hishead bent slightly down yet angry eyes piercing her. However, she was notscared of that feigned angry look now.
"Allahabad ki haveli mein kya jhagade hote the dono kebeech! Yet it was Jiju who saved JiJi when she fainted while having gone to thepub." Shikha chipped in.
"He has been saving me all along, Shikha! First put me introuble, then come and save me. Inki yeh hamesha ki aadat hai." Chandni goadedfurther.
"What else could he do? Poor brother of mine! laughedPooja.
"Bhaiyya, I want to discuss something important with you andBhabhi after the breakfast." Miku was suddenly serious among the laughter onthe table. Everybody stunned by his sudden change to seriousness from a filmytone.
"Yes Devarjee, anything for you always!" smiled Chandni.
After breakfast, Chandni hurried to the kitchen while Poojawent to do preparations for Pooja. Chandni was preparing food for GovardhanPooja muttering to herself about how many tasks were still left to be done andshe did not know how she would finish everything.
" Hey Bholenath, ajj meri raksha karna... Kisi cheej mein koigadbad nahi honi chaahiye...Itne saare pakwaan banaane hain aur dar ke maaremere haath chal hi nahi rahe hain."
Advay came after her and stood for a minute admiring hisMiss Badbad. Even when alone, she would be speaking to herself. Forever 'chaparchapar' on. And today, at the dining, she had done a lot of it. He wentsurreptitiously behind her.
"Help Chaahiye, miss Badbad?"
Chandni was stunned by his sudden arrival. If she knew herhusband well, he had come to take revenge of her goading him earlier and notsurely for helping her. As such, what could he help in cooking offerings food!
"A... Aap?"
"M... Main! Who else calls you Miss badbad?"
"A...Aa... Aap..." Chandni stumbled in fear not knowing whatmight he do as revenge.
"Why are you stuttering now? On the dining table, toh badibadi baatein kar rahi thee!"
"Maine kya kiya? I spoke the truth!" Chandni pulled up allher courage in defiance.
Dev put his arms around her from behind and yanked her closeto his body, prisoning her to him, "Apne pati ki buraai karati ho, Bhagyavaan?"
"Mirchi lagi kya?" Chandni held onto every ounce of courageshe had, " I spoke the truth!"
"Half truth! Bhagyavaan, Half truth! You weren't any less.You had called the police to have me arrested. Apne honewaale pati ko jailbhejana chaahati thee! Hai Na, Bhagyavaan?" He goaded her now.
"leave me... Someone might come..."Chandni was disturbinglyconscious of him.
" I told you in Allahabad kitchen, remember?...Aane do!" He smirked, pulling her petite soft frame tighter to his strong hard body.
"Bhai, main aa gaya hoon. Sorry to disturb you both in yourcoochi-koo." Veer arrived in a filmy way putting his hands over his eyes.
" You always come at the wrong moment, don't you Miku?" Reluctantly Advay let go of Chandu.
"Not at all! He is my saviour. He comes at the right moment,always. You wanted to say something, Devarjee? In the tension of having toprepare mountainful of offerings today, I forgot about you. Sorry Devarjee.Please Say now."
"Not here, Bhabhi. My conversation is far more importantthan all this food. And I know , you will not focus on anything else apart fromfood while you are in the kitchen."
"So true, Miku!" Advay agreed with Miku in a differentsense.
Miku's room was in worse mess than the way Chandni had firstseen Advay's room... memories came rushing back to her...The tea bag sticking toher hand and her flinching over it... then his coming and holding her hand, sosensually, seductively and taking out that Tea bag stuck... she blushedimmediately with the memory...Advay watched the blush with a smitten look.
As uncomfortable Chandni was, equally comfortable was Advayin his brother's room. Miku held hands of both and made them sit on the bedtogether. He sat at their feet. Advay felt uncomfortable and tried pulling himimmediately up but Miku stopped him, "I am perfect here, Bhai."
His eyes, verygenuine, very earnest! Both Chandni and Advay knew in a second, that it wassomething really very important that Miku wanted to discuss.
"You always ask me, Bhai, what I want to do about life. Iknow that you will make me your business partner, if I join you there. You'lllet me do anything that I wish to do. I want to be your partner, but not inbusiness rather in your other very important role!" Miku took a deliberatepause.
Advay perplexed, kind of lost...the calculating man unableto decipher...hundred images passing his mind, which role does Miku have inmind?
"You are the Mahant of Allahabad Mahadev temple now! You dorealize , Bhai, it's not just an honour but a huge responsibility placed on your shoulder withBaba's shawl." Miku'stone was very serious. Advay remembered the treasured moment, so crucial forhim when that Shawl was placed on his shoulders as his right. Miku's words wereso true.
A myriad of emotions fleeted in a second across Advay'sface... a vulnerable, unsettling aura around him suddenly...His father's wordsreverberating is his ears "Vakt kabhi ek sa nahi hota!..."
What is Miku tryingto imply? Both looking at each other earnestly...Their locked gaze taking themto their special bonding space... away from the material world...a bond thatconnected their souls, their astral beings, their deep cores within.
"Bhai, yeh humaari Veeraasat hai! It's our inheritance fromBaba...An inheritance that bonds us together more than the common blood thatflows through our veins."
Forsixteen years, it was not just the agonizing memories; but more so theloneliness, in not being able to truly share the pain, that had broken downAdvay. "Akelapan Aadmi ko Tod Deta hai, he had told Indrani in jail. Whateverhe did, whatever he tried in all these years every night, every day, eachmoment... he couldn't escape them, he couldn't go past them, he couldn't reachhis balance. Time had not healedanything.
His heart knew that he didn't want to be alone in thatunforgiving pain. Now his pain could be shared, with two loves of his life, twopeople whom he could trust completely.
"Bhai, It's theinheritance that will bring our lost world alive again... in a new way...Bhai, Mandirmein mahant honge, humaare family ka pahele jaisa naam hoga, haveli mein phirse khushiya hongi...you have told me about Baba, Naani has told me about Maa!When I connect these images with the fogged memories of my childhood, I cannotimagine Maa- Baba anywhere but in that Haveli, in the temple of Mahadev!
Think once, Bhai. What we aim at, what you aimed at allthese past months, is perhaps avenging his physical death; but what Babasuffered most was his dishonourin society before his killing. His heart, his individuality died with theinsult. A man having lived his entire life with dignity and honour died withthe betrayal he faced. His body losing life was less painful. True solace toBaba's soul will be reclaiming that honour back. What burnt Maa, more than thefire, was the loss of her happy family. The laughter of Maa will fill the airagain when our family flourishes, our children play and grow there."
For sixteen years, any happiness that could possibly burgeonin Advay's heart had been charred to ashes in the memory of fire burning hismother. Every time the images roamed in his mind, he faced a death again. Hefelt it in his head, in his heart, in his gut. That feeling of everything dyingwithin you...
It stampeded behind his smouldering eyes as hot burning chitaafire...his tears burnt and dried away in his anger...the soil of his heart laceratingin that dryness...
"Miku..." escaped over a halted breath of Advay. Conjured upin Miku's eyes, Advay saw his whole life... his past, his present, his future,his every dread, his truth, his duty,his battle of "Yada Yada hi dharmasya..."
"Bhai, you have the duty to fulfill but you are bound withyour business demands and your maths professorship, your life already molded toit. You please remain as senior Mahant and allow me to take ownership of JuniorMahant...I will actually be present there and execute all responsibilities onyour behalf. I will work for the people there, with the people there andre-establish the family honour. Baba's soul will be most happy with that. I will take Shikha to Allahabad and ourfamily will grow in the Haveli. In our laughter ringing amongst the walls ofhaveli, Maa will smile. You must come there for important Mahapoojas and thenwe shall all be together."
Long back Advay, all alone then, had been apprehensive ofopening heavy door of haveli ; because it meant opening the iron gates stringentlyholding up the bursting out pain in his heart. But now, Miku was leading Dev overthe threshold back to the memories; this time to accept the memories as a happydream...A non-negotiable truth yet a solution... the smoke seeping out, theconch shell blown, the true battle began... Yada Yada hi Dharmasya!...
Overwhelmed with emotions, Dev hugged Miku, tears flowingdown both their eyes. Unable to hold herself back, Chandni joined the hug fromDev's backside...holding his emotions in her arms and then letting them flowgently as Ganga had flown gently over Shiva's hair. Dev turned a little and allthree hugged together. Advay had once made a promise to himself that he wouldtake back everything that life had snatched away from him. He was going tofulfill his own promise; but not alone this time rather fully armed with allDev's resources!
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