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Aha...the proverbial light rains followed by dulled stillness after the storm...How beautifully portrayed the aftermath was!! On the one hand there is Yash...whose picture-perfect world of Aarti fell to smithereens after she herself unleashed the hidden storm. The images of Aarti that he had built up so reverentially lay broke all around him, and he was devastated. Yet, when he recovers from the suddenness of it and starts thinking, he'll realize that he had only framed the person and not the essence of that person...that Aarti's essence lay inside her and cannot be framed and as such cannot be broken. So, what broke??? The illusion did. And what remained?? The reality...the essence. He is a lost man if he lets the latter go. This is when Yash Scindia needs to get up and learn to look beyond.
On the other hand, there is Aarti who wants to shield the real her...her essence from her man, lest he got hurt. So she helps him build his illusory world by hiding the wholeness of Aarti...thus naively ensuring that the magnitude of suffering only multiplied manifold when the truth came out...as it happened...and once again, by the quirk of fate, she is ignorant...this time of the storm itself. Till they realize that the storms that they unleash themselves are only because they are running after the relative and not much caring about the absolute...that they see of the other what the other shows them and finding sufficiency in that...that for once they have to look beyond the mirage, only then will they find the oasis of reality and take peace in it!!
Destiny is not a matter of chance...it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for...it is a thing to be achieved.
Yash accepted he is in love when he was shown the Picture de Destiny...the chance picture that sealed his conviction. Today he realized how shallow that conviction was because when the illusion shattered, the reality scared him, angered him, tortured him, and made him feel betrayed. He couldn't understand that when Yash and Aarti were so destined to be together, why did Aarti break away. Yash took destiny for granted...dedicated the being of their love entirely to it...and ended up relying too much on the make-believe than the real. All Yash had to do...all Yash has to do...is to understand that Yash and Aarti were meant to be because they wanted it to be so and not because destiny decreed so. That's exactly what the baba guided him to do..."Everything happens for the good. What is gone was never meant to be, what you have now is yours and should be held on to. Life is all about discovery; if you want to find the real person who presents an illusion to you, then find her before she is lost...Hold on to her." Yash has to realize that just as he found Aarti after he let Arpita go, Aarti needed to let Prashant go before she completely became his. There is a reason that these two individuals from the past did not make it to the future of Yash & Aarti. The reason being that they have no hold over Yash & Aarti...just as destiny holds no meaning if you equate it with accepted belonging rather than achieved togetherness. Yash & Aarti are together because they want to be together...because of their mutual love and devotion for each other...because of the absolute relationship they share...and not only because of the punar vivah or a destined belongingness.
Aarti has in part understood this divine relationship, which is as real as her wish for togetherness of seven lifetimes. Instead of sitting and accepting destiny's written script, she'd rather be proactive and make that script play out in reality. Her promises to God reflect this fact..."I shall not let the flame of our love snuff and protect it with all that I have. I won't let any obstacles, any hindrances arise between us. He may not distrust me yet, but before he even begins to do that, I'll assure him that now and for the rest of the eternity he is the only one for me and that I love only him. And for this even if I have to fall at his feet and beg for forgiveness, I will." What Aarti needs to understand here is that for Yash to totally understand her, she has to open herself to her...open her past to her...allow him to share her pain. She cannot shield him from her pain...Just as she understood him more by sharing his pain, his loss, his depth of a past love and which eventually only increased her love for him, he too needs to do the same. She can run to save him from a pinprick and make light of the incident by saying that she was only saving him from pain...the one by injection...but Aarti being Aarti fails to look beyond the pain and envision that at the end of that pain is cure...that sometimes pain is the road to therapy. She can save Yash from small sufferings, but the bigger pain...that of lies and deception...that she harbors in her has the capacity to bleed him dry. She saved a drop of blood but he shed many times more in trying to understand his Aarti...Somewhere his ego too was pricked...He prided himself of knowing Aarti, but then..."I was wrong to assume I understood you...I don't." Therein lies the motivation of his journey...journey of discovery...to seek Aarti as Aarti...the in-pain Aarti and not the others'-pain-sponge Aarti...the real Aarti and not the Aarti that stays hidden...his Aarti and not the Aarti the world sees...the Aarti who wants to lay her head on his chest at the end of the day, closing her eyes in peace while listening to his heartbeats, momentarily calming the storm of her own making.
Prashant for once wants to do the right thing but is held back by the voice of an archaic, biased thinking of a section of a society that deems men/sons as the privileged children of God. "You are the man...you can never do any wrong. She is the wife...she has to come back to you. You have done no wrong by leaving your wedded wife and going after another woman...that's your privilege...but she had no business going into the arms of another man in a so-called remarriage. She is bound to come to you as the kalyugi Ram, Yash, will definitely oust her. You will once again get back what was always rightfully yours." On the contrary, his mother for the first time praises him and blesses him for doing the right thing...that is easing out problems from Aarti's wedded life with Yash. Once again Prashant stands in front of a crossroad from where one road shows the path his own mother has always guided to...and the other one his taiji is showing, the one that promises all the inanely orthodox false illusions of false privileges. What is it going to be this time: the road to reality and real redemption or another journey through illusory haze and uncertainty?
That's it friends. I so love where this wonderful saga is taking us...Yash and Aarti have finally begun their journey toward building their own real universe...the one devoid of any myth or fallacy. There are many miles to go...many obstacles to cross...much angst to face...but it's their love for each other that will pave the path. Because in spite of the storms, they won't let go of each other's hands!!!
Have a nice day.😊
On the other hand, there is Aarti who wants to shield the real her...her essence from her man, lest he got hurt. So she helps him build his illusory world by hiding the wholeness of Aarti...thus naively ensuring that the magnitude of suffering only multiplied manifold when the truth came out...as it happened...and once again, by the quirk of fate, she is ignorant...this time of the storm itself. Till they realize that the storms that they unleash themselves are only because they are running after the relative and not much caring about the absolute...that they see of the other what the other shows them and finding sufficiency in that...that for once they have to look beyond the mirage, only then will they find the oasis of reality and take peace in it!!
Destiny is not a matter of chance...it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for...it is a thing to be achieved.
Yash accepted he is in love when he was shown the Picture de Destiny...the chance picture that sealed his conviction. Today he realized how shallow that conviction was because when the illusion shattered, the reality scared him, angered him, tortured him, and made him feel betrayed. He couldn't understand that when Yash and Aarti were so destined to be together, why did Aarti break away. Yash took destiny for granted...dedicated the being of their love entirely to it...and ended up relying too much on the make-believe than the real. All Yash had to do...all Yash has to do...is to understand that Yash and Aarti were meant to be because they wanted it to be so and not because destiny decreed so. That's exactly what the baba guided him to do..."Everything happens for the good. What is gone was never meant to be, what you have now is yours and should be held on to. Life is all about discovery; if you want to find the real person who presents an illusion to you, then find her before she is lost...Hold on to her." Yash has to realize that just as he found Aarti after he let Arpita go, Aarti needed to let Prashant go before she completely became his. There is a reason that these two individuals from the past did not make it to the future of Yash & Aarti. The reason being that they have no hold over Yash & Aarti...just as destiny holds no meaning if you equate it with accepted belonging rather than achieved togetherness. Yash & Aarti are together because they want to be together...because of their mutual love and devotion for each other...because of the absolute relationship they share...and not only because of the punar vivah or a destined belongingness.
Aarti has in part understood this divine relationship, which is as real as her wish for togetherness of seven lifetimes. Instead of sitting and accepting destiny's written script, she'd rather be proactive and make that script play out in reality. Her promises to God reflect this fact..."I shall not let the flame of our love snuff and protect it with all that I have. I won't let any obstacles, any hindrances arise between us. He may not distrust me yet, but before he even begins to do that, I'll assure him that now and for the rest of the eternity he is the only one for me and that I love only him. And for this even if I have to fall at his feet and beg for forgiveness, I will." What Aarti needs to understand here is that for Yash to totally understand her, she has to open herself to her...open her past to her...allow him to share her pain. She cannot shield him from her pain...Just as she understood him more by sharing his pain, his loss, his depth of a past love and which eventually only increased her love for him, he too needs to do the same. She can run to save him from a pinprick and make light of the incident by saying that she was only saving him from pain...the one by injection...but Aarti being Aarti fails to look beyond the pain and envision that at the end of that pain is cure...that sometimes pain is the road to therapy. She can save Yash from small sufferings, but the bigger pain...that of lies and deception...that she harbors in her has the capacity to bleed him dry. She saved a drop of blood but he shed many times more in trying to understand his Aarti...Somewhere his ego too was pricked...He prided himself of knowing Aarti, but then..."I was wrong to assume I understood you...I don't." Therein lies the motivation of his journey...journey of discovery...to seek Aarti as Aarti...the in-pain Aarti and not the others'-pain-sponge Aarti...the real Aarti and not the Aarti that stays hidden...his Aarti and not the Aarti the world sees...the Aarti who wants to lay her head on his chest at the end of the day, closing her eyes in peace while listening to his heartbeats, momentarily calming the storm of her own making.
Prashant for once wants to do the right thing but is held back by the voice of an archaic, biased thinking of a section of a society that deems men/sons as the privileged children of God. "You are the man...you can never do any wrong. She is the wife...she has to come back to you. You have done no wrong by leaving your wedded wife and going after another woman...that's your privilege...but she had no business going into the arms of another man in a so-called remarriage. She is bound to come to you as the kalyugi Ram, Yash, will definitely oust her. You will once again get back what was always rightfully yours." On the contrary, his mother for the first time praises him and blesses him for doing the right thing...that is easing out problems from Aarti's wedded life with Yash. Once again Prashant stands in front of a crossroad from where one road shows the path his own mother has always guided to...and the other one his taiji is showing, the one that promises all the inanely orthodox false illusions of false privileges. What is it going to be this time: the road to reality and real redemption or another journey through illusory haze and uncertainty?
That's it friends. I so love where this wonderful saga is taking us...Yash and Aarti have finally begun their journey toward building their own real universe...the one devoid of any myth or fallacy. There are many miles to go...many obstacles to cross...much angst to face...but it's their love for each other that will pave the path. Because in spite of the storms, they won't let go of each other's hands!!!
Have a nice day.😊
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