Part 1 in Devansh Series
The Mantri sisters have been thrown into a familiar yet unfamiliar world of devas, asuras, devansh, and age-old enmity. When faced with a choice, they have to follow into a mission to the lands of the enemy. Will they prove...
Music for the Chapter: Get Ready To Fight from Baaghi 2
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Alaknanda, I hope you're healthy now. Narada did tell me that you are back in your cabin now so you must have got better than the state you arrived in.
I have always been someone who has always had the right words to speak. There were only a few times when I was left speechless. I have been awake in this creation since mankind was born. I have seen birth and death. I've seen so many of my dear ones take birth. Sati. Gauri. Lakshmana. Balarama. Others.
Out of all of them, the only time I was speechless at someone's birth was yours. I'm known as the father of the creation but that had never prepared me for the overwhelming feeling of holding a baby for the first time in your hands. Never has anything felt so fragile. Never have I felt so worried that I would drop something. I had always believed that Sri's eyes are the prettiest one, perhaps with no other parallels to its beauty but that pair of baby eyes perhaps were so bright that I couldn't help but think that there is someone else whose eyes I love. Someone else who looked at me with unconditional love.
I would apologize if it ever seemed to you that I cared less for you, for I would never have the right words to explain what you mean to me. I am forever bound to my duty. Something I have always placed foremost. To several people, it seems cruel. That is how duty is. Cruel and unyielding. Often brings you to a standpoint where you have to chose between two things you love the most. Till the time that there is nothing more left to protect, I will continue to stand by my duty. True, it has often gotten me into trouble. It is easy to question my morals for being quite manipulative at times. Especially when I stay in comparison with Mahadev. (A hilarious thing because neither of us would compare ourselves to each other. But the comparison remains. It is like trying to compete against my best friend which is nothing more than a silly joke) He's simple and I'm a bit complex. Not that I'm bound to explain myself to anyone. I do what is required. I have done it yesterday. I am doing it today and I will do it tomorrow. Just as it is required. I will choose my duty because the entire creation relies on me to carry on my duty with a devotion that matches my devotion to Shiva.
There are four ways to get work done. Saam, Daam, Dand, Bhed. If one has to get work done, we have to use one of these. Every action has an equal reaction. All of us follow the laws of nature. We are not beyond those laws because children follow the example of their parents more than the words of their parents. I can tell and tell and tell about what is right but everyone will follow it only when I follow them myself. So, I follow my duty untiringly so that my children too do it.
You would ask, why bother with everything and do it for people who don't understand its reason? Because I have to think of those who live their whole life believing in me. Till the day there is even one person who believes in me, I will keep upholding their belief. As such, everything has been the same to me. I could hold myself in happiness and in grief the same way. I could hold praise and insult the same way. It has never bothered me. I can carry myself the same way. Because that is expected of me. When several lives rely on your single decision, you have to think.
