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If two stand shoulder to shoulder against the gods,
Happy together, the gods themselves are helpless
Against them while they stand so.
~Maxwell Anderson
Pratigya walks out,turning her back on her future,her happiness,her promise and her vows..she is walking away from light and is moving in an dark alley approaching the ever deepening dark...but her ardent lover comes out and stands like a beacon of light to guide her back...just as she is going to step out and be engulfed by the darkness , there rings out a sonorous voice "Pratigya,Stop!"...obeying the command in the tone,Pratigya halts and stands between the light and dark ....but still stubbornly turned away from light..Krishna walks towards Pratigya, each and every tread powered by her love, confident in his love and with a sense of propriety ...his gait conveying a determination,a sense of purpose and an implacable self belief ...he moves to her side and stands looking down at her , Pratigya still resolutely refuses to meet her destiny ...Krishna gives a appraising look and slowly his hands stretches to the handle of the suitcase which is held by Pratigya, there is a tug of war between love and ego...love wins..Krishna looks at her unyielding, there is a resoluteness in his tenor "Never dare to cross the threshold of this house" Pratigya gives an incensed stare but unable to face his love looks away instantly.."Don't even think of taking a further step [towards unhappiness],come let's go back"..but Pratigya is one stubborn girl "No !!I will not come [Krishna gives a furious and questioning glare ] Why are you stopping me NOW ?Why and for whom shud I stay back ??who is my own here??...Right away Krishna places a finger on her lips,silencing her and establishing a soul connect..Pratigya reads the assurance ,unspoken affection and calms down ,he further gives her verbal confirmation"I am there, so listen to me and come back"..He holds her hand, picks up the suitcase laden with their dreams,happiness and a future together and walks holding her arms , steering her towards the light and ushering her into the world of love and happiness ...
Pratigya has entered the world of happiness, but still there are few wisps of darkness shrouding her heart,which need to be addressed by the torch bearer of love,her lover Krishna !!! ..This he proceeds to do..He tenderly turns her towards him , Pratigya looks at him bewildered , but he does not take notice, he shepherds her towards the bed, guides her to sit on the bed and takes a seat near her.
"Trust enables you to put your deepest feelings and fears in the palm of your partner's hand, knowing they will be handled with care."
There is a softness to him , his face is radiant with an inner glow, the glow that has been lit by the fire of her love, and he takes a tinder from this flame to illuminate and dispel the opaque shadow enveloping her heart ; Krishna ,a mellowed Krishna softly and gradually opens his heart ,words come out, feelings that were hitherto kept chained are released , they cascade out lyrically "Trust and Belief !! every one wants it, but tell me, How could I trust , we are husband and wife ,bound by a bond greater than the laws of man, we shared the same house, the same roof and we stayed in the same room, despite this, you always kept me at arms length, you used to distance me as if I was ur mortal enemy, Had u been in my position, what would you have done ??"" ..Pratigya bows down her head in acknowledgment of this bitter truth,unable to answer him, there is guilt,an acceptance of her culpability and remorse 'Krishna continues "Those nights which actually should have given me immeasurable joy was so dark that its shadow was stuck on my face even during the bright day, I used hide my agony and put on a mask when facing the society"..Pratigya is dumbstruck and for the first is realizing the amount of agony her husband went thru because of her .There is a painful awareness of her unintentional cruelty,distress she was the bearer of his torment "what u did , even a person full of hatred in his every cell will not do "..Pratigya is pained to hear the misery she caused ..Krishna reflects for a minute and continues "Trust and belief do not grow in ponds,lakes and puddles, for trust and belief to grow, one has to open the doors to heart, just like the shell of an oyster which keeps its door open so that a beautiful pearl may be formed,likewise when u keep the door of the heart open,will Trust be implanted ,but you, you had just closed ur heart and on top of that u are accusing me of not trusting me , how could I trust u , now that you have stated openly, then I will willingly lay down my life for you,without knowing ur state of mind ,ur views ..how could I have trusted you "[All the while , while Krishna is waxing poetical on trust and Belief..there is a gradual lightening of his expression,a slowly increasing glow of love emanates from him,his eyes begin to lose the haunted look and there is a return of good humor,love and confidence]..Krishna gives a wispy smile "Just before you were to walk out, you said something,reiterate it again...now that u have opened the doors of ur heart ..open the windows too and let in the sunshine into every nook and cranny ,say the magical word again "
A chastened Pratigya replies softly,but with impregnable conviction "I love you very much," Krishna"...Krishna looks like a desperate gambler who has staked his life on the last throw of dice and come out triumphant against an overwhelming odds,He cant believe his ears, and asks her to say Again ,Pratigya gives a slight smile replies "I Love You "..He cant trust what he is hearing, he asks her to repeat again, Pratigya obliges ..again and again..Krishna just closes his eyes and lets her words flow into his heart,soul and every particle of his body..her love permeates to the very core of his soul and dissipates the lingering dusk and cleanses the accumulated grime and allows the radiance of love to fire up his heart , his face is transformed and there is a purity and nobility in his countenance..Pratigya looks at him in wonder,adoration and growing felicity..
Krishna is reveling in the power of this words ...He opens his eyes looks at her "your words are being absorbed into my being just like the very air I breathe , Say it again !!"..Pratigya gives a happy laugh and responds.."You are not listening , Krishna..each and every breath I take is shouting out That I LOVE YOU !! "...Pure bliss on Krishna's face when he hears this !! "just hearing this lovely words from you spontaneously brings forth complete trust and belief in you " ..Pratigya is stunned and overjoyed ..Krishna"Do u know this is the only word that I like in you English language" He wipes away her tears,"Tomorrow is the birth of Lord Krishna, the epitome and symbol of love,the day love began on earth...we too will begin our journey filled with boundless love"..Pratigya watches him bewitched , awash in his love and implicit trust, she bows her head overcome by shyness,while Krishna looks on in adoration ..unable to resist,Pratigya comes up for a quick peek at him and drowns in his eyes ,he gently holds her, and places a kiss on her forehead affirming to her that she is his honor,his prestige,and he will always be her protector and be her support in her hour of need..Pratigya trustingly submerges herself in his love and leans towards him in the complete knowledge that he will be there for eternity,never leaving her alone to face the cruel,uncaring and unfeeling world ,she understands now he is the tree that will give her the shade , he is the strength from which she can draw her own , he is the rock that will block the hardship from hitting her, he is the buffer who will always save her from getting any grievous injuries..he has unfettered her but has bound her by the chains of love,trust and belief..A chain which she does not want to break ever.....
One of the most poetical Kriya moments so far...Arhan was in charge and he was ably aided by Pooja ....[the way Arhaan managed to bring out the naivety and at the same time sensitivity and maturity of Krishna was commendable], the way Krishna's face gradually loses its misery and there is a step by step gradation of happiness as he begins to realize that Pratigya does love him, the way Arhaan has shown the calmness stealing over him, the softening of his tone, the passion that vibrates in his voice...trying to enforce a control on his unbridled joy and try to make his hurt wife understand his difficulty in believing her statement and pouring out his pent up anguish in simple and lucid style and yet there was an inherent poetry in it ..it was like going to a big ,open ,vast land and listening to the rustle of Grass swaying in the wind..you know the grass is plentiful but the rustling music does not overpower u but mesmerizes..so was Krishna's comments on Trust..it was an issue which could have translated into slanging match ,but the way Krishna said it was a serenade calculated to soothe even the most afflicted soul....[Kudos to Arhan for delivering it so beautifully....👏]..
Krishna was everything at once, dominant,submissive,eloquent...his determination and his self belief ,the way he simply tells her to come back without any swagger nor arrogance was superb, the way Pratigya went with him compliantly without a murmur of protest after a briefest resistance showed the depth of her love and the intensity of longing to be with him..Hearing the raw despair and hopelessness in his voice [when he starts on Trust]she was pained,astonished that she caused him so much anguish, hurt that he thought she did it deliberately..she listened raptly and absorbed it all ..Till date the educated Pratigya taught him about,etiquette,sanskaar but today the uneducated Krishna taught her about emotion's, feelings ,relation's and The Educated lass realized that this life's lesson was much more important than Shallow sanskaars ...
I have used Arhan/Krishna interchangeably..bec I could not decipher where Krishna began and Arhan ended ..😊
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