Chapter 3 - Aghori

She walked to the pond next to the temple after leaving without recognizing her grandma. She likes to talk to the fish while dipping her legs into the pond, and she enjoys the sensation of the fish teasing her feet since it takes her back to her carefree childhood. The pond and huge banyan tree near the pond are some of the places where she can wander her thoughts and sit leisurely. This pond is believed to have a 40-foot-long mythical snake that is obligated to remain there by Ardhanarishvara's edict to safeguard the ancient scriptures. Since her childhood, Gouri has always tried to look for this snake, but she doesn't know that the snake is always near her and is waiting for the day about her realization regarding her past life.

Gouri... Gouri... Gouri... Where are you? The voice of Granny snaps her to reality. Ayya...my sweetie, was sitting here. You should have told me before you left the temple, and Gouri can see how much her grandmother got scared. She couldn't believe her eyes. Even the legendary Devaki Mahadeva Varma can get scared too; even she won't flinch at the age of eighty to kill someone, and that unyielding person's heart beats only for her. Thinking about this, a smile came to her lips.

Devaki could sense the presence of something that was gazing at them, but she couldn't understand what it was. But she couldn't feel any threat from that. Even though it was not threatening, it still creeps her out. Humans always felt threatened by the unknown things that they couldn't define, and she urges her granddaughter to leave for home.

While they were going home in the car, she was thinking about the moment she was intimidated by the Aghori that's sitting under the banyan tree. She heard someone calling them, and when they turned back, they saw an Aghori sitting quietly under the tree. He was deeply staring at her, and his long, uncut hair and beard reached his hips. The entire body was smeared with human ashes, and he was wearing rudraksha as the chain and wrist band. His eyes were glowing, and his aura was brimming.

He was screaming at her like this: "Gouri, why are you forgetting that you're the true source of nature? If you don't find your origin and true essence until the Pournami (full moon), then the past will repeat. The start and end are the same. Har har Mahavdev" The past won't repeat itself again, and what looks best when served on the plate is revenge, and I will make them even beg in their dreams for death. Her eyes were sparkling like the blue diamond that could destroy everyone and a sneer appeared on her face at that moment. When she recalled the interaction with Aghori, these words spilled out of her mouth. Her deadly impulse to destroy everything vanished from her when her eyes returned to normal. Her true essence is slowing unleashing as a hurricane to destroy everything, It is the stillness that precedes the catastrophe. She didn't realize the surprise that fate had in store for her when she waited until Monday to enroll at her new university.