Who is Rudra? - Part 2

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3000 BC...

For Illustrative Purpose Only

The heroes who saved the planet from cyber terrorists could not avoid succumbing to this physical terrorism. Why? Why? This is what Shiv’s (NASA Scientist) unconscious mind questioned.

His mind was filled with the chorus of a great army crying out the name, “Sagar, Sagar, Sagar….” He was lying on the battlefield, a wounded solider covered with deep cuts. It was a bloodbath all around.

He was holding back his last breath, waiting for his beloved wife and newly born son. It was the battle between the Kauravas and Pandavas, in the land situated between the two rivers, the Sarasvati and Drishadvati, the land where Manu wrote his Manu-smriti and the land where the Rig and Sama Vedas were compiled.

His calm mind resisted the image. “This battleground is not the land of my birth or my beloved kingdom. This is not the place where I spent my joyful childhood. This is not the beautiful place where I come from. I need to find the place of my birth.”

His comatose mind continued to wander further into the past. Having identified the city of his birth, he stumbled onto his colorful life as “Sagar”, the great warrior of the kingdom of Krishna in 3083 BC!

Sagar, in his first karmic avatar, was given the “Shudra varna” tag but was patronized by a Brahmin guru. He was given the status of a Shudra by society but the status of a strategic warrior by his leader, Abhimanyu. He grew up with three Brahmin friends (the sons of his Guruji), the Kshatriya leader Abhimanyu and another friend, a Vaishya. A close bond developed between them in the gurukul. The three sons of his Guruji were also blessed with mystic powers.

All the Pancha bhoodas—earth, water, sky, air and fire—danced to the tunes of the three boys who had been born as triplets to his Guruji. Only when the three were together would the Pancha bhoodas obey them. They were warned of a threat to their lives at the age of fifteen. As they grew older, they joined Abhimanyu’s ‘Yuva Warrior Team’.

Sagar was the chief strategist of the Yuva army, marshalling resources for his leader Abhimanyu. During the Kuru war, on Yuva Sena, the fateful day of the chakravyuha, Sagar had been advised by his Guruji that he should not send his three gifted sons to the field. According to their horoscopes, their lives were under threat.

But fate took the decision away from him.

A nine-layer chakravyuha had been formed by Guru Drona. All of Duryodana’s greatest warriors were in the inner circle, while the outer circle was protected by the mighty Drona. The Pandava warrior Arjuna, the only one who knew how to cleave the chakravyuha, had been dragged off to a different field. Now the onus of breaking the chakravyuha fell to the young Abhimanyu, Arjuna’s son. He knew how to break the chakravyuha; he did not know how to exit it.

The Yuva Sena headed by Abhimanyu volunteered to enter the chakravyuha, assigning the seniors the task of ensuring that the breach remained open to allow for a clear line of retreat. A contingency plan was made.

The three Brahmin boys’ powers would be used to create an underground tunnel through each tier, so that the soldiers would be able to retreat in case anything went wrong. A portion of the army could also use the tunnels so that they could be shielded from arrows while moving ahead and defending the broken edges of the tier. Also, even if the tiers were closed due to any reason, the mouths of the tunnels would provide a ready exit for Abhimanyu.

But Sagar could not accompany them as he got the news of the birth of his son at that time. He left the group even though he promised to his Brahmin guru that he will protect his sons.

In the war that followed, the three boys were split and they could not execute their tactical plan as the Pancha bhoodas will listen to them only when they were together.

Abhimanyu and the three boys died in the Chakravyuha. Sagar had to earn the wrath and the curse of his Brahmin guru.

“You will be highly competent on land, sea and air matters in each of the three births. You can win a war but you cannot avail the fruits of it. Let these nine births forever remind you that you killed my sons in the nine-tier chakravyuha. Each of the nine circles will represent one birth for you. This is my curse”.

A new journey was about to begin for the soul of Sagar. The Indus Challenge: Janam Two. The hero of ‘The Indus Challenge’, Rudra, was born in 330 BC with a new karmic agenda. Would he be able to break the shackles of destiny and overcome the curse…? To read place your order online at http://bit.ly/2hykzFm.