In the wake of devastation, King Suri, his kingdom in ruins, embarked on a journey of exile with only his loyal minister and a solitary nightingale by his side. Amidst the wreckage of his once majestic palace, where golden cages once gleamed, now lay nothing but ashes and memories.
With a heavy heart, the king spoke of his losses, his voice heavy with grief. "I have lost everything," he lamented, recounting the tragedies that had befallen him. "All that remains is me and my little friend."
While living from there that cage was also demanded from the king, the king was ordered to take the nightingale from there without the cage.
But even in the midst of his despair, a flicker of hope remained. As the king released the nightingale from its cage, he believed that love would bind them together, that the bird would return to him, a symbol of loyalty in a world torn asunder.
After opening the cage, the bulbul flew and sat on the branch of a tree standing in front. The King looked at the minister and said, "Don't be upset minister, she has come out after a big day. That is why observing the outside world a little. Now see, she will turn back to look at me and lovingly come and sit on my outstretched hand."But, with unwavering determination, she spread her wings and soared into the vast unknown. As the nightingale took flight, its gaze fixed on the horizon, never once looking back.
Tears streamed down the king's face as he grappled with the sting of betrayal. "Today, I have nothing," he whispered, his voice cracking with sorrow. "She, too, has abandoned me."
Hearing this, the minister started saying, "What betrayal Maharaj! ,that innocent Nightingale trusted you. She was a little life unknown to the world, trying to make sense of this strange world, when she saw you she was a little startled after seeing you stopped there. But when you reach out to her seeing love in your eyes she came towards you. Started playing with you. But never thought that in return for her trust you would imprison her for the rest of her life. What you did was, you locked her in a cage and brought her away from her home, family, friends, everyone she loved and brought her to a place, from where she could never go back even if she wanted to, because she didn't even know of the way to her home.Didn't remember the faces of her family.You took her and kept her In a royal palace, which was a prison house for her. Everyday seeing the birds passing by that poor bulbul was crying out calling out to them for her help. Seeing which you enjoyed and considered yourself lucky!, Maharaj. Then what you did Maharaj, you took her into a closed room. The nature in which she grew up was also snatched away from her that innocent nightingle whom you used to listen every evening as the tune of her loving music was singing the song of her life. She was not singing and dancing with unparalleled grace inside the cage, Maharaj, she was Sobbing with pain and reciting the sad song of her life full of sorrow.And the love you are talking about Maharaj was just your illusion. You used to love only yourself, if you had loved her a little bit, you would have taken care of her freedom first. Because true love was not found in cages of gold, but in the boundless expanse of freedom. You always thought that life is all about comfort and luxury, but that's not the truth, Maharaj. Life needs freedom whether it is of a human being or of a small bird.
And today, when you opened the door of her freedom, she went and set on the branch stayed and started thinking whether it was another cage again!.
That impeccable Nightangle went on flying ahead and didn't even turn back, fearing that if she turned back she would be imprisoned again.You know my Lord, what would see be thinking while moving forward? She wouldn't only blaming you. She would be blaming the enter humanity for this. She must be thinking how cruel the human is, he imprisons life in exchange of love and trust."
As the minister's words resonated, King Suri realized the truth in his words. With a heavy heart, he admitted his mistakes and understood the cruelty he had unknowingly inflicted upon the innocent bulbul.
𝓁𝑜𝓋𝑒 𝒸𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓉𝓊𝓇𝑒𝓈, 𝓁𝑜𝓋𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝒾𝓂𝒶𝓁𝓈 𝓃𝑜𝓉 𝒷𝓎 𝓀𝑒𝑒𝓅 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓂 𝒾𝓃 𝒸𝒶𝓅𝓉𝒾𝓋𝑒, 𝒷𝓊𝓉 𝒷𝓎 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓂.❤️
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