Vardaan 1...The Ultimate Boon

Chapter 1: The Miracle of the Extraordinary Privilege (Part 1)

In the year 1352,

Aryavarta (Northern Indian subcontinent)...

This story is of Aryavarta, whom some people started calling Bharat (India) as well. The hidden Aryavarta was located by many courageous sailors as well as explorers. After that, the citizens of many countries started coming to Aryavarta for various purposes. Urdu-speaking and Persian-speaking people had also come to Aryavarta and started living in Aryavarta as Aryans.

It is easy to blame one's faults on others, that's why in those days, people believed that because of foreigners, a strong wave of change was blowing in Aryavarta. The ethics, way of living, and moral values ​​of Aryans were changing rapidly. The Tiny villages were becoming cities. Small shops were taking the shape of bazaars (Super Market).

The dominance of wealth was increasing rapidly, and the value of humanity was decreasing steadily. The vacuousness of all relationships was also slowly beginning to be exposed. Everyone started to understand that money is the only special friend.

So everyone was busy collecting money.

Each person who was unable to do so as per the strength of his ability, every moment looked for opportunities to befriend those who had abundant wealth.

The kutcha houses of the ordinary people were now turning into pucca houses with the help of limestone, as the masons were no longer mere lieges of the kings. Yes, money had come to the zameendaars (seigneur) and the sahukaaras (indigenous bankers), so they started making their pucca houses by paying the same fee to the masons as the kings.

Festivals too could not remain untouched by the blind winds of change. Intimacy and love were replaced by sweets and gifts. Now it was very easy to find out who loves you, and how much does he love you?

The person who gave you the most expensive gift is the person who loves you the most. The one who gave you sweets in maximum quantity, that person has a maximum affinity towards you. The rest of the ordinary people had no real attachments for you. There was no true place for you in their minds.

In other words, they were the general public in a true sense those were just performing the formalities.

A strong wave of blind change was blowing everywhere, but the Uttarasaadhaka gurukul (College) built by aacharya (teacher) Krishna Chandra Shastri was still progressing at the same speed, embracing its principles.

It was more than fifty years had passed since aacharya Krishna Chandra Shastri died yet his thinking was the foundation of the Gurukul.

Aacharya Krishna Chandra Shastri was born Krishna Chandra in the year 1160 in the Kumara Kingdom. Like every child, he was accidentally born into a Brahmin (Upper cast Indian) family. Like most Aryan, as well as Brahmin ladies, mother Shakuntla Devi was a housewife. Unlike most Brahmins, Father Beli Rama was a Pundit (a Hindu ritual expert and officiant), so Punditai was his profession.

Beli Rama's knowledge and good manners earned him a lot of positive fame and true respect in society.

He was not greedy, so in religious rituals, he used to spend according to the financial condition of the yajmaans (Amphitryon). Just because of this special quality, he was loved by every class.

People of all castes were his yajmaans. Everyone used to donate more than his capacity. Apart from money, he also got crops, food, clothes, etc. in charity from the yajmaans.

Just as Beli Rama was firm in his good nature, in the same way, his all yajmaans were also firm with his services. That was the main reason why Beli Rama and Shakuntla Devi built a pucca house for them at a very young age.

In the colony where they lived, everyone was poor, so Beli Rama and Shakuntla Devi had the only pucca house in the colony of Kutcha houses. Whereas Beli Rama's peers could not do this even after the age of youth had passed.

Krishna Chandra was the only son of mother Shakuntala Devi and father Beli Rama, so the parents did not leave any stone unturned in his upbringing. All his needs were taken care of. Some special privileges were also given to him. The most special of all the privileges was 'Education'.

Yes, in those days education was only a privilege.

The privilege that not everyone had the right to get. The one who did not have the right did not get this privilege even by paying a price.

At that time it was believed that from ancient times only two sections of the social system had the right to education.

The first were Kshatriyas (the kings) and the second was the Brahmins.

Historically only the Kshatriyas got the right to rule as well as the right to education. Later two problems appeared. The first problem was who would teach the Kshatriyas. If a Kshatriya starts teaching other Kshatriyas, who will rule then?

The second problem was if a Kshatriya taught other Kshatriyas then in front of other Kshatriyas his reputation would be compromised because the title of the ruler is much bigger than the teacher.

To solve those problems, the responsibility of teaching had been given to a few men of the top second caste.

The few Brahmins got jobs as teachers. Within a few days, a new problem was born. Those who wanted to teach would have to study themselves. After an intense discussion, Kshatriyas found a permanent solution to this permanent problem.

The Kshatriyas unwillingly had to allow the whole Brahmin caste to study, and thus the Brahmin caste got the right to education.

As per the new system, at first, Brahmins would study, and then they would teach the Kshatriyas. Over time, Brahmins also started conducting religious rituals as pundits.

Education was the best privilege, as Krishna Chandra was accidentally born into a Brahmin family, so he automatically got this privilege.

Krishna Chandra fully respected this privilege. He made full use of this privilege. He was a wrestler by the body, a scientist by intellect, a great scholar by knowledge, and a saint by conscience.

By working hard based on these qualities, Krishna Chandra got the highest education of his time at a very young age.