Chapter 6
new power
They all sit on the bed. Bodha says "Tell".
Bhairav, the wheel of time turns backwards and some dark pages of the book of memories start appearing.
"It was evening time. Then a boy was harassing my friend Sanjay. So when I went to save him, he started fighting with me too. A scuffle broke out between that boy and me. Then I don't know what happened suddenly, but when I regained consciousness, the door of our ashram was broken.
Then when the owner and mistress of that ashram came, we called mother and father. our father said
"Ever since this Bhairav came to this ashram, nothing good has happened." Then he shouted, "Leave it the way it was adopted."
My mother was explaining to him but then father said something which even my mother could not deny.
He said that
"Ever since I came to that ashram, they had changed the location of that ashram three to four times. So that is why I have become a threat to that ashram and to the children living there". Then I could not bear all these things and ran away from that ashram.
Bodha says
"But who brought you here?"
"Listen further. Then my friend also left the ashram following me. Then we were roaming like this but suddenly a very scary person came and stood in front of both of us and went after us to make us die.
Vedha is surprised and says,
"To kill you, but why?"
"What do we know? Then while running, suddenly a big iron knife enters my friend's stomach, but then my uncle comes there. Then he takes both of us away from there."
Bodha asks
"Your friend?"
"Uncle had left him with a doctor."
Bodha says
"Not good happened to you."
Bhairav, showing himself to be powerful, laughs without a smile and says,
"Now let us go to sleep. Anyway, we have to get up quite early."
While leaving, Vedha hugs Bhairav and says "Everything will be fine now."
Bhairav's eyes and heart fill with tears. Bhairav takes a sigh of relief and hugs Vedha tightly and he smiles softly and says, "You are right. Everything will be good in future".
Bodha says to Bhairav
"Hey! Remembered. I forgot to give you a token of friendship."
Then Bodha takes out a gold coin from him. On that coin, there is a white coloured stone between the mouths of two snakes.
Bodha says,
"Using this coin, we will be able to talk to each other even when we are far away from each other."
"Wow! This is a very good sign. Now we can never stay away from each other, but where did you get this from?"
"Where I lived. A sage there gave it to me as a birthday gift."
Vedha says,
"We all have to get up very early, so now we both go to sleep and you also sleep."
Everyone lights the lamp of happiness and friendship in their hearts and goes to sleep.
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One day after nine months have passed there, after eating all the food, they climb that mountain properly. When they all reach the top.
There his guru tells him
"Today you do not have mantra class. Now all of you sit in meditation posture.
Ambu says
"Why Guruji?"
"Don't ask questions, just sit in meditation posture."
Then they all sit down to meditate. Then some people come and bring with them a very big vessel which contains very hot water. A lot of blessings are coming out from that hot water. That smoke goes above all those meditating boys.
Just as a beautiful rainbow of seven colours emerges from the white clouds, in the same way there are seven colours of smoke mixed with each other in the white smoke.
Black coloured smoke is coming out from inside Bhairav, colourful smoke is coming out from Veda, and golden coloured smoke is coming out from Bodha.
Then Indra says to all of them, "You all can open your eyes and see the colour of your inner power. This colour is coming because of the powers of your god."
Then they all open their eyes and the colour of someone's smoke is red and someone else's smoke is black. There are seven colours there: red, blue, brown, black, white, golden, and colourful. They are all very happy.
Bhairav says to Bodha "Why is the golden colour coming out of you but the black colour coming out of me".
Arun laughs and says "Because you are trash. Black trash". Saying this he starts laughing loudly. His friends also start laughing behind him.
Dhruv says "Arun, you are making fun of both my friends Bhairav and Viraj. Your body will be of the same colour as the smoke coming out of your body. Absolutely red".
Ambu says softly, "This will really turn you red."
Everyone is enjoying the sweet and sour banter between Ambu's group and Bhairav's group, everyone likes them.
Bodha says, "Well, Dhruv has taken care of this Arun. Bhairav, your colour can be black because your deity will have the power of this colour.
Viraj tells Oliver, "What a beautiful scene it has become. What beautiful coloured smoke is coming out from inside everyone."
Abhay says "Brown colour is coming out from inside me. So which god will I have the power of?"
With them the rainbow of colours becomes even bigger with the colours of joy and curiosity of the new power.
His teacher says, "There are seven rooms inside, outside of which there will be a yantr of your colour. You have to go into that room and they will put a power yantr on your body."
Vedha says, "But Guruji, what kind of yantr are these?"
"This yantr belongs to the yantr of your deity. Once this yantr is awaken, it will fill you with powers".
Then they all go to their rooms according to their colour.
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Viraj also goes to the room along with Bhairav. There he sees a person wearing a long black cloth, dhoti and a yellow turban. A cloth is tied over his mouth because a lot of smoke is coming from some earthen pots there. Many earthen and glass utensils are kept there.
He coughs and says,
"My name is Bahu. You come with me."
Bhairav and Viraj start following Bahu.
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Bahu goes towards a room. There is a instrument installed there. On which a place to lie down is provided. Both Bhairav and Viraj get a little scared after seeing that ride of death.
In that instrument, there is a bowl attached at the top, below it there is a very small space between the two poles and a thick plate is kept below those poles.
Bahu brings that hot clay pot with himself and puts it in the bowl of that instrument. Then he takes out a black rock from him and places it between those wooden poles.
He says to Bhairav,
"Lie down on the machine upside down. "It might hurt a little but that's how it works."
Then both Viraj and Bhairav lie down on that instrument and Bahu lowers the plate of that instrument and places it on the back of Bhairav and Viraj. There is a special kind of yantr on it which is made only with the help of lines, triangles and circles. A special kind of water was filled in that bowl. He passes through that black sheet and starts becoming known in that sheet.
A yantr starts forming on the backs of Bhairav and Viraj which is black in colour. As soon as the drawing starts, Bhairav feels as if someone is doing art on his back with a chain hammer.
For some time, the stone bears all the blows of the chain hammer, but then after some time, a loud sound comes from the stone and it says, "How much longer?"
But Viraj bears all the pain without shouting.
Bahu says
"Why are you shouting like small children? Don't worry, it's going to happen."
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In other rooms also, like Bhairav, a is being made on the back of all of them. Only the colour and the size of the yantr are different. Like the colour of Vedha's yantr is rainbow, Dhruv's is red, Abhay's is brown, Ambu's is dark blue, Bodha's is golden and Millo's is light blue.
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Then Bahu removes the instrument from Bhairav's back. A lot of smoke is coming out from Bhairav's back.
Just like an artist doesn't believe in his own art, similarly Bahu doesn't believe in it. he says to himself in surprise
"I made this. This is very well made. But this is something much deeper. Did I make a mistake? No, no, this cannot happen."
Bahu says to Bhairav "Hey! The skin around your instrument has become very red. By the way, how did you bear so much pain? But how are you feeling right now?"
Bhairav says angrily,
"That's why I was shouting. I am still in a lot of pain."
"Now this instrument will hurt a little but this instrument is very well made. Till date I have never made such a good yantr on anyone's back."
Then Bahu looks up and thinks,
"But how can this happen?"
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Then they all slowly start coming out of their respective rooms. His teacher comes there and says
"You all now have a new power and with this power you must learn to fight. The one who gives you this strength is the Guru of all of you. He will teach you how to use this power. One month from today there will be an examination in which your strength will be tested. Your practice will begin tomorrow with the first rays of the sun. Now all of you can go down and rest in your rooms only after eating. If someone sleeps without eating, he will never be able to wake up".
Hearing this, all the half-dead people die of fear.
Vedha says
"What do you mean by this?"
"Meaning, this yantr will suck your life force right now but once it is controlled, it will give you a lot of powers."
Then Bodha solves a very complex question. He is quite surprised thinking about that. He says in his mind, "This means that if someone uses this yantr too much, he may die."
Bhairav starts lifting his bucket. Then Guruji stops him and says,
"Today you do not need to take this bucket down and climb down this mountain."
He lowers his wrist and closes his eyes and recites a mantra. They hold the stick with their fingers and keep it in the air and gradually a big round shaped hole is formed around the stick. His Gurukul is on the other side of that hole. They all reach their Gurukul without any fatigue.
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They all start going to their respective rooms. Bodha and Vedha also go to Bhairav's room.
Bodha says to Bhairav,
"How is the pain in your back now?"
"I am still in a lot of pain but I think it will go away in a few days."
Its back looks like a black snake crawling in red sand, its entire back turns red because of the black lines.
Vedha says
"Hey! Your back is completely red".
"That's why I'm in so much pain."
Then Bodha says
"Has my back also become red like this?"
"No, there is only a golden coloured yantr on your back."
Just then the sound of a bell comes there. Both Vedha and Bodha, tired after the whole day, say in a tired voice, "Come on brother. It's time to eat."
Then they all reach there to eat food.
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Along with them, all the seven Gurus are sitting around a mysterious small pillar in the middle of the rooms and talking about the reason for that meeting. Just then Indra comes there and sits on that small pillar. Then those seven gurus also sit at their respective places.
Indra says, "Today's meeting is about Bhairav. While treating him, Surya and I came to know that he has a lot of tantric powers. So we have to decide together whether he will stay in this ashram or not."
Just as the soldiers become alert after hearing the announcement of a war, similarly after hearing this, Guru Shankar, one of them, stands up and says, "This cannot happen. This is impossible."
"This has become possible."
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Everyone there is only talking about their new powers.
Arun says
"Now we have more power. Our group has seven strengths. Now we can give good pleasure to Dhruv and Bhairav".
Ambu says
"Why do you again and again forget about the hidden powers of Bhairav"?
Milo says
"And now we don't have a group bigger than Bhairav because Bhairav and his friends combined and Dhruv and his friends together make ten people".
Henry says,
"Leave it now, man, it's been many months since those talks. We all should now work well on our new strength".
Ambu says
"Yes, you are right. Now we will have to work harder".
Just then Bodha, Vedha and Bhairav also arrive there. Dhruv and his friends are also there.
Dhruv says
"We all have different strengths so now we will all be separated".
Hearing Dhruv's words, Bodha's ocean of happiness dries up and he says, "All three of us have different strengths, so it means we all have to be different."
Bhairav smiles and says,
"So what, we are in the same Gurukul. We will all meet each other again at night.
Vedha also smiles and says,
"You are right Bhairav. So what if we will not be able to meet in the morning, but at least we can sit and eat together at night.
Bodha says
"But still friend. The three of us always stay together."
Bhairav places his hand on Bodha's shoulder and says
"Don't worry, we will all stay together."
Bodha keeps a few drops of happiness from his drying ocean and looks at Bhairav and gives a smile. Just then Oliver and Viraj come to Bhairav.
Viraj says to Bhairav
"Tomorrow morning you and I will practice together. I would love to practice with you".
"I would also love to practice with you."
Then Oliver says
"And Bodha, you and I will practice together tomorrow".
"Yes, you said it right".
Then Vedha says
"It is good that we are getting a good opportunity to know each other".
Then Dhruv is listening to all of them behind them. He comes from behind them and
Says "You are right Vedha. This is a very good opportunity. To know each other and also to work hard."
Bhairav says,
"Tomorrow is a very important day for all of us. From tomorrow we will all get to learn different types of exercises".
Bodha says,
"I am also very curious about the new practice".
Then after having dinner, they start laughing and go to their respective rooms to sleep.
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While going on the way, Vedha, Bodha and Bhairav see each other leaving, smile and say "good night" and go to sleep in their respective rooms.
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Bhaskar stands up and says "Bhairav cannot stay in this Gurukul."
Bahu says in his mind, "Now I understand how that mark went so deep. His body is made to absorb power."
Bakula says, "Bhairav can prove to be a threat to all of us, anyway we are all surrounded by Tantra."
Dhiman says, "And it is also possible that he is a spy sent by one of our enemies."
Then he just takes his arms towards Bhairav and says, "Don't worry, all of you. I understand the tantra very well and I don't think he will be a spy sent by anyone."
Indra says, "He cannot be a spy because his own colleagues work in the ashram from where he has been brought."
No conclusion can be drawn by dragging on the issues. Everyone starts giving their own arguments as to why Bhairav should not be in this Gurukul.
One arm does not work against six. Indra says
"According to the opinion of all of you, we will expel Bhairav from this Gurukul."