Part 2 in Devansha Series
The time has started ticking for the Mantri sisters. They have finally retrieved Vijaya and secured their place in Gurukul.
But will everything stay normal for Mantri Sisters after Adya's challenge to Asura raj Virat? Will...
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Training is never a simple task. It is always something that one should take seriously.
Taking it in a serious manner, I woke up by three. Maa has already made sure everything was prepared for me. She laid my clothes for me.
"Maa, you didn't have to do all this. I would have done it," I said. Maa simply smiled.
"A mother does things out of love. I want you to be ready. He is easy about everything else but when he starts training you, it is going to be hard. More so because you are his child. He will be expecting a lot from you." She told me as she braided my hair.
"I don't want to disappoint him."
"You won't. Only when you stop trying, you will disappoint him. Just don't give up on the process." Maa put the bindi on my forehead.
I reached the peak a few minutes before the time. Baba was meditating. The calm and serene that filled the air. It was still dark. Only the light flashing from the moon was there. The tallest peak in the surrounding. It was quite high. Also, it was cold at this hour.
Baba, while his eyes still closed, signalled me to sit. There was a mat placed. I sat down on the mat. He still didn't say anything and I was quite nervous.
"Clear your head. There is so much static noise in there." Baba said, his face twisting in a disturbance. I took a deep breath and gave it out. "Also, can you calm down? I can hear your heart beat from a mile away. I'm not going to eat you or something."
I chuckled awkwardly.
"Yeah..." Severe embarrassment.
I took a few deep breathes and meditated.
Om Namah Shivaaya.
I meditated on it to calm myself down. I imagined the calmness of home in Rishikesh. The sound of Ganga flowing down. That is where the first disturbance came up. The thought of Adi came to my mind, shaking me a bit. Threatening to set me into tears.
I felt as if my weight had become twice mine.
A loud sound came, I jumped away. The damru from his trishula fell down making a loud noise. I had jumped away that.
Baba opened his eyes and looked at me for a moment then picked up his damru calmly.
My hands shook. Baba noticed it.
"What bothers you is not that Alaknanda died, it is that you don't stand confident of your own self. Till you get there, no amount of training from Guru Atri will be of any help. This corner of you that is scared of everything. The wiring that you have in your head. Fear that was built inside you by Daksh."
"Nana?" I was confused. "What does this have to do with Nana?"
"Daksh pulled you away from Alaknanda when you first lost control of yourself as a child. You see Alaknanda as an object of your identity. Alaknanda makes you change. The first time you changed, it was because of Alaknanda. The second time you accessed Kali was because Alaknanda needed it. You constantly associate it with fear and loss. You associate yourself with Alaknanda and loss. Sonakshi, you are independent of Alaknanda."
