After sitting quietly for some time, Rudra started getting restless and started thinking about the Tantrik. Rudra was sure that he could get answers to all his questions from the Tantrik because of whom he was so curious and the incident that happened a while ago had given him an understanding due to which he had become eager to meet him.
He really wanted to know whether whatever the boy had told him was true or not. Thinking all this for some time, Rudra fell asleep. Rudra had been sleeping for a long time but he was not even conscious and then he saw that the train had stopped with a jerk due to which he fell down. After some time he got up and stood up.
"What kind of a jerk was this?" Rudra thought to himself. After which Rudra got up and went outside to look. When he got out of the train, he saw that the train had collided with a station and its front coach was on fire and slowly the fire was spreading to his coach.
As soon as Rudra tried to run away, the compartment burned to ashes with a bang. The impact of the explosion was so strong that Rudra collided with his compartment and got injured on his head.
Immediately after this, his eyes opened and he saw that the horn of the train was blowing loudly. When Rudra looked outside the window, he found that Haridwar had arrived. Now he quickly got up and went out with his luggage.
As soon as he left, the train left from there. Now Rudra was also convinced that there is definitely some power which wants him to explore all the states and it was helping him everywhere.
Rudra's sudden dream was not a coincidence, it was a very deep secret about which he did not know anything yet.
After reaching there, Rudra started looking here and there. After this he saw a rickshaw puller and he went to him and said, "Bhaiya, I have to go to the Tantrik who lives here, his name is Bhadra".
Now after listening to him, the rickshaw puller said while looking at him, "Sir, there are many tantriks here, there are hundreds of tantriks in the whole of Haridwar, if you talk like this then how will I understand whom you have to go to". Now Rudra started to understand everything but he was not able to understand anything.
Now Rudra remembered. "Bhaiya, can we go to Dharapur?" Rudra asked.
After this the man smiled a little and said "So you have to go to Dharapur, I was thinking, I don't know whose name you are taking again and again". After some time the rickshaw puller started asking Rudra "By the way, why have you come here, you don't seem to be from here".
Rudra only told him his name and said that he has to go quickly, his friend must be waiting for him there. As soon as Rudra took the name of his friend, he got shocked and said "Wait, wait, wait, where are we right now". After this the rickshaw puller said, "We are just leaving Haridwar. Dharapur is 10-12 kms from here." "Do you know any Pandit whose son's name is Varun?" asked Rudra with curiosity. Now the rickshaw puller started thinking something. "Oh yes, I remember there is a Pandit here whose son's name is Varun. He doesn't live very far from here. Actually when his father died, he took his place. Everyone believes that he got all the knowledge of his father but nobody knows how that happened."
The words of the rickshaw puller surprised Rudra and he started thinking that it is necessary that there is some miracle of that Tantrik. Then Rudra quickly said, "Take me to him." Hearing this, the rickshaw puller started looking at him with strange eyes. Then Rudra said, "We will go to Dharapur after that. You go, don't worry, I will give you the same amount of money that I had asked you to give." Now the rickshaw puller was also happy and took him away. After a few minutes, both of them reached Varun's place.
The rickshaw puller dropped Rudra there. After which Rudra gave him his money and then he left from there. Rudra was slowly moving towards them and there he found that some people had surrounded Varun. All those people were asking Varun about their problems.
There was a long queue, after this Rudra started waiting for his turn to come. When Rudra's turn came, he went in front of Varun and sat down. "Baba, tell me about my problems too" Rudra asked with curiosity.
Then Varun put his hand on his head. After this he suddenly got shocked. Now he raised his hand and put it again but the result was the same, Varun was not able to see anything about Rudra.
Due to which he was surprised, now Varun said, "I request all of you to go home today, I have some important work, I have to go." Varun started speaking to everyone with folded hands. Rudra thought that he had some important work due to which he also started going with everyone but then Varun caught his hand and said "I have sent everyone to talk to you only, where are you going, come with me". Varun took him along and went with him.
After going inside, Varun looked at him carefully "Who are you and how did you come here"? Then Rudra told him about himself and told him all the incidents that happened with him in the train. Then Varun was surprised and said "But how can he meet you, he has died long ago". "Yes, I also know that the person I talked to was his ghost, he had told me this before" Rudra replied. "But I did not understand why he told me about the Tantrik"
Varun asked in surprise. "Did you really get all this knowledge from your father?" Rudra asked.
After Rudra asked this much, Varun looked around and then slowly told him, "No, my father did not have any knowledge, I got all this knowledge because of Aditya, the same person who told you everything in the train, actually he threw away the prasad of that Tantrik and he left from there in anger. I was very late in reaching there due to father stopping me. When I reached there, I saw that Aditya was going from there in anger, after going some distance, he threw something with his hands and after seeing that he went from there."
"I went there and I found that there was halwa lying there from which I picked up some pieces and ate them and that changed my whole life. I got the knowledge of the whole world, now I understand the entire horoscope of anyone on whose head I put my hand, but today you came and surprised me again, even after putting my hand on your head, I could not understand anything. Can I know the reason for this?"
"I have come here to find the reason. Strange things have been happening to me for the past few days. My wife is missing. The landlord of the house where I used to live has been murdered. There is a devil who is following me again and again. There is a curse on my village etc." replied Rudra.
"Okay, I have understood your point. I will also go with you to that Tantrik. However, it is not right for me to go there because I have taken the powers of someone else." said Varun looking at Rudra.
"But what is your fault in this, it was Aditya's fault who threw it but when he came to know that it was Halwa, he did not pick it up and just went away from there" said Rudra.
Now both of them started talking and started telling each other about themselves. After some time Varun took Rudra with him to that Tantrik. After going there Rudra found everything as Aditya had told him. The Tantrik was surrounded by people from all sides.
Some were lying at his feet and some were sitting around him, there was a very long queue. Sadness and distress was clearly visible in the eyes of the people. Now Rudra also started thinking that maybe now his troubles will end. Slowly the crowd started dispersing and then he started seeing the face of the Tantrik little by little. Slowly the crowd dispersed and the face of that Tantrik started appearing in front of him.
When he saw the face of the Tantrik completely, he was stunned, now he stood like a statue. There was no life in him, then Varun said, "Look there is less crowd around them, go ahead." Now he put his hand on Rudra's shoulder and pulled him forward, but Rudra was standing still at one place.
Varun standing there was shouting repeatedly, but it did not matter to Rudra. His eyes were not moving away from that Tantrik. Slowly, time was passing and then after some time that Tantrik got up from there and started leaving.
"If this Tantrik has gone to the forest, then you will meet him only on the next Amavasya day, go, what are you looking at, go Rudra." His words did not make any difference to Rudra. When Tantra left from there, Varun said taking a long breath, "You ruined my day, he was in front of you and you did not go to him, what is the reason, can I ask?" Varun said angrily.
After he left, Rudra regained consciousness and clenching his fist, he said, "This is the same Tantrik because of whom our village is in such a condition, how can I forget him, yes! This is me, you don't know for how many years I was searching for him. Today my search is over, I want to know from him what happened to him that day. "What are you talking about?" Varun asked in surprise. Then Rudra laughed crookedly and said, "You will not understand, thank you, if not today then tomorrow I will get my answers, now you can go from here."
Who was that Tantrik and what happened that night, how did Aditya die, where was Seema, what was the curse on the village?
Thank you.
The story will continue.