Karn : Sanyasi Parshuram Shishye

Chapter 7 : Three Tests

Next morning, Karn woke up early as usual, he seemed worried as well as excited for the upcoming challenges. He freshened up and then he did suryavandana to the rising sun and praying to Suryadev, he said ,"Hey Suryadev, a new life is waiting for me ahead. I ask for your blessing and guidance in my upcoming tests and tribulations."

After praying to Suryadev, Karn went to look for bhagwan Parshuram in the courtyard. Bhagwan Parshuram as usual was in meditation infront of the shivling in the courtyard. Karn did not want to disturb him, so he went ahead and also sat in front of the shivling and meditated. After sometime Bhagwan Parshuram opened his eyes and saw Karn sitting on the side. Noticing someone looking at him, Karn also opened his eyes. 

Karn the said, "Pranaam Bhagwan"

Bhagwan Parshuram replied, "Kalyan ho, putr. How was your sleep"

Karn answered, "It was good, Thank you Bhagwan"

Bhagwan Parshuram then asked, "Putr, are you ready for your test?"

Karn replied with confidence, "Yes, bhagwan I am ready for the test."

Bhagwan Parshuram then explained, "I will take three tests, You will  have to figure the tests out yourselves."

As Bhagwan Parshuram was speaking he found his consciousness fading and after sometime he woke up near an ashram. 

Karn looked around and at a distance he found an ashram where rishi muni were doing tapasya. He walked towards the ashram but suddenly a raging bull came towards the ashram. Seeing this Karn shouted towards the ashram and alerted them of the incoming danger. This alerted the rishis of the ashram and they started running here and there to save their life.

The Bull now near the ashram started wreaking havoc and destroying the ashram. The bull in its frenzy started running towards a small kid, seeing this Karn ran towards the kid and dived to get out of the way. The bull paid no heed this and continued running. Karn noticed this and thought to himself, "This bull does not seem an asura and is not targeting anyone and just running here and there, could it be injured and became agitated because of it. The only way is to make it calm and make him understand that I can help him. I need to overpower it to make it listen."

With this plan in mind, Karn dashed towards the bull and held its horns but the bull jerked him of fairly easily and threw him away. Karn felt pain all over his body as if a boar stuck him. He still stood up and ran towards the bull, this time he tried to climb up the back of the bull with the help of the bull but the bull raised its front legs and slammed it at him, Karn raised his hands to catch those legs but the sheer force pushed him to his knees. Gathering strength from all over his body he got on legs and pushed the bull off. The agitated bull now had all his attention on Karn. 

Seeing this Karn led the bull of the ashram. After a safe distance, The bull still rampaging towards Karn. Karn also ran towards the bull and this time he quickly held the horn and according to the plan he jumped on the back of the bull. The bull started jumping here and there to push him down but Karn held the bull tightly. Also Karn started telling to the bull that he can help but the bull did not seem to understand him and just jumped frantically. Karn however did not give up and with one hand held tightly to the horn, he started stroking the back of the bull and said, "Mitr, I know you are in pain, let me help you, I will not hurt you".

This continued for quite a while and after some time the bull seemed to calm down. Karn still waited on its back for some time. Seeing no reaction from the bull, Karn swiftly came down and stood in front of the bull, Karn then stroked the bull and said, "Where are you hurting mitr".

The bull nudged its head towards its front right leg, Karn on one knee looked at the right leg and saw a huge thorn in it, Karn then slowly touched the thorn to which the bull winced in pain, Karn then quickly pulled the thorn to which the bull hurriedly pulled its leg and jumped in pain. However soon realizing that the source of pain was gone it calmed down and started rubbing its head across Karn's body. 

Then Karn told the bull that he must apologize the munis for his behaviour, the bull somewhat understood what he was trying to say. As they made their way to the ashram, He could see the rishis coming to his direction with lathis in their hands. The rishis also saw Karn.

Karn joined his hands and greeted the rishis, "Pranaam Rishiwar"

The Rishis replied, "Kalyaan ho putr, We were just coming to help you deal with the asur bull."

Just as the rishis were speaking they noticed the bull coming ahead and raised their lathis to fight.

Karn saw this and hurriedly stopped them and explaining the situation to them, after hearing what happened some seemed relieved and some astonished but Karn suddenly felt his consciousness fade again.

He woke up to find himself in front of a face he recognizes well, Mata Dharini. Karn looked at her and wanted to ask how did the test go, but he suddenly felt pain all over. Mata Dharini as if read his mind and smilingly said, "Putr, You can meet your guru after recovering. You still have one test left."

Karn thought to himself there should be two tests left but before he could think more he drifted in sleep.

He woke up next early morning feeling refreshed and went to do Surya Vandana. After that he went to bhagwan Parshuram and greeted him, "Pranaam Gurudev".

Bhagwan Parshuram replied, "Kalyan ho putr, Now tell me what was the essence from the tests earlier."

Karn thought for a moment and replied, "Gurudev, It was will power, patience and calm mind, without will power I would not have been able to fight with the bull for that long and without patience and calm mind I would not have been able to identify the root cause of the agony of the bull."

Bhagwan Parshuram smiled and said, " Main Rishi Jamdagni putr Parshuram, tumhe Karn aaj apna teesra shishye swikar karta hu."

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From the Author -

Sorry guys, I got busy with my work stuff and could not update. I will try to be regular from now on.

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