ONE Curse. TWO Families. THREE Lives. RIVAL Villages waiting for killing each other any time soon. What will be the the god's play in the their lives? Will it be death or life? Live or die? Light or dark?
'SIVAKESAVA RUDRAMANENI'
Elder...
After aahuti everyone sat for maha siva ratha yatra pooja while Rajamata, Shankar and Swamiji were a bit far from where pooja held. Swamiji sat in indian style and Shankar said "Swami...Siva is turning twenty five tomorrow."
Swamiji slowly opened his eyes "It's time you compromise with Ramapuram King's family and make them remember the history."
"Swami they won't send their daughter as our daughter in law if they know about the curse" Shankar said.
"Did you forget the loop whole Shankar? Let me remind you then, the curse can only be gone when the blood line of the person who cursed will be your daughter in law. You family waited for a girl to be born in Suryadevara family and it is now done after eight generations. And it's time to end it" Swamiji explained.
"That means there will be no death this time if Saumya becomes our daughter in law" Sivanjani said happily.
Swamiji laughed making them look at him confused "Rajamata for every loophole to work there must be a sacrifice and this time only one death saving the future generations" making the mother and son widen their eyes.
"Swami...How many more lives will the curse take? It took eight generations of our family's daughter in laws which also includes my sister. When Saumya was born I thought there will be a stop to this but you are asking for the life of hers who's gonna prevent this curse forever?" Sivanjani asked raising her voice at the last sentence.
"Don't you forget whose mistake it was for your suffering Sivanjani. Your ancestors made a mistake and you all are paying for it and this time this will have to come to an end with one last death" Swamiji said in anger and the temple bells rang as Sivanjani was in tears and Shankar was sad.
"Swami... it's time for ratha yatra" Poojari garu informed making the trio walk towards the ratham. People were standing either side of the ratham holding the ropes tied to it for pulling.
"It's time. Start the ratha yatra" Shankar said making poojari garu tense "Ayya..Aarya didn't come till now" making the family look at Kalyani.
"She said she's on her way but let us start and she'll join us" Kalyani said making poojari say "Amma but Aarya.."
"We must wait for god's blessing. We should not make god wait for human please start the ratha yatra" Kalyani requested looking at Shankar who nodded towards poojari garu.
Poojari garu handed coconut to Meena who broke it infront of the ratham and signaled everyone to pull the ropes. But it didn't move making everyone pull the ropes harder but still there was no movement making Shankar say "Go and check if something is stuck under the wheels" to few people.
After a few minutes people returned saying "There's nothing Raja varu (King)."
"Let's try again" saying Siva joined the others and pulled the rope and it moved a bit but again got stuck.
"Why is it not moving? Is mahadeva angry? Did we do any sin?" People started whispering and Swamiji smiled shaking his head.
"Naanna...Aarya is here" Shivani said making everyone look at the entrance where Aarya was walking towards them in a half saree with a bit of jewellery smiling a little.
"We're were waiting for you since long time Where were you Aari?" Kalyani asked.
"Sorry an accident happened when we were on the way to temple. I gave them our car so they could take the victim to hospital" Aari said making everyone smile.
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"Oh how is the person now?" Meena asked.
"Ofcourse he'll be fine when my siva always gives me what I ask him" Aari said making them chuckle.
"Amma Aarya break the coconut so we could start the ratha yatra" Poojari garu said handing her the coconut.
"It's useless now poojari garu because of her delay the shubha muhurtam (very good time of the day) also completed" Chandra, Shankar's sister said sarcastically making Aarya look down at her feet.
"When sivayya doesn't even want to move without Aarya inviting him then it is useless to put a muhurtam at all. Aarya go ahead ask your Siva to accept the invitation into our village" Swamiji said making Aarya nod and smile.
Aari took a step forward and joined her palms closing her eyes praying sivayya before hitting the coconut onto the ground only to see the flower inside it and smiled then stood up and immediately pulled the rope looking at sivayya's statue and the ratham moved forward making everyone look at her astonishingly.
