Shivi and Satti And the Warriors of Death book preview

1. Shivi & Satti: And the Warriors of Death Author: Anupama Gupta

2. Contents 1.The Nostalgic Night 2.Strange Acquaintance Niru 3.The Answer 4.About Love 5.The Waking 6.Recovery 7.Mother’s Love 8.The Stunt & Proposal 9.Vrinda & The Informer 10. Vastisso 11. The Gift of Life 12.Kaaleeva’s Presence 13. The Zone 14. Shivi ’s Dilemma 15. The Vrindavanmonk 16. The Ashram 17. Arrival of Savior 18. Guruji 19. This is What Happened 20. The Session 21. Vipin’s Trauma 22.Butterfly’s Place 23. The Meeting 24. Warriors of Death 25. Gates To Eternity 26. Deadly Kaalmedrus 27. Protector Goddess 28.Kaaleeva Commander’s Inception 29. Scars of the Battle 30. The Talk 31.Army’s Liberation

3. 32. Rejuvenation 33. First Confrontation of Kaaleeva

4. Sample Chapter 3. The Answer They both sat on the sofa to talk. Satya looked at Shivi who was still asleep. Then he looked at his new strange acquaintance. “Talk softly, she, (pointing at Shivi) should not wake up.” “Oh! You don’t worry about her.” Satya is making up his mind as to what he should say who are you or what are you, or tell me about yourself. He heard a giggle saying “any of them will do!” “Ohhh... I forgot! It can hear my thoughts! That’s so weird. Now I have to even think in private,” said Satya to himself. “Let me introduce myself, I am Niru. I came to you because you called me.” Satya stunned, “What? I never called anyone! I don’t even know you?” he took a second’s pause and said again with command, “nothing but truth I want, who are you?” “Nothing but truth I speak, I am Niru and you called me here,” its voice was soft and profound. Satya felt the urge to listen to him patiently. So he listened. “I do not belong here, but I am no alien. I know everything about anything you know till now. I am here for you. Whenever you are in great sorrow and feel unbearable pain, you call upon me. Till now you have called upon me four times including this one.” “Have you come before also?” asked Satya.

5. “No. Your intensity of knowing was less in previous times. Only this time your inquiry was so intense that it opened the gate between us, and I came in.” Satya was listening to Niru, watching the tint of innocence & bubble of happiness in his eyes. But the profoundness of his voice did not match the child in his eyes. ‘What is the truth, his childlike eyes or his profound-all-knowledgeable voice, that of an adult?’ he thought. Satya was hardly able to understand what Niru meant to say, intensity; I calling him; opened the gate. Nothing made sense to him but he did not interrupt; something in him wanted so badly, to listen to him. Niru continued “I am neither a woman nor a man neither am I the mideller. Where I come from, there we don’t have any genders. We simply are. I am not a spirit or a ghost, I am not dead or alive...” Satya interrupted “either I am dead or gone mad. Enough! Answer me in one word, why are you here?” Satya asked clearly frustrated. “Answer”, Niru replied promptly. An intrigued Satya said “What answer? Be clear.” “My one word purpose of coming to you is- answer, I am here to answer all your questions.” Niru said. There was a minute’s pause between them. Satya broke the silence, “How do I trust you?” “You don’t need to;See for yourself” replied Niru.

6. Satya knew he already trusted this thing ever since he agreed to talk. Niru said, “I have the answer to your every question, so better ask the right questions or” with a smile he said, “the most important ones.” Satya thought for a while, he knew what was the most important question for him but he was afraid of getting it answered. His heart pounded over the possibility of the answer being what he thinks it to be. If it will be so, he won’t be able to survive this life any longer. Sometimes in life people are so afraid of the answers to their questions that they drop the idea of asking them. But Satya asked the question that was killing him every moment of his life. He gathered all his courage and with a heavy throat he said, “Am I the reason ofmy mother’s death?” He saw Niru eye to eye while waiting for the answer. Niru’s eyes were somehow not same as before, they were much bigger and filled with passion and love. Was this passion and love for Satya? It did not matter; Satya was waiting for his answer. Every breath seemed as long as a decade to him, he could actually hear the sound of his breath moving in and out of his nostrils. He could hear his heart pounding so hard. When it became almost unable to bear the heaviness of his heart, Satya suddenly felt that he was dragged into a whirlpool of windy-watery-firey glu of transparency. It happened so fast that he wasn’t aware of what really happened. In a moment he was stilled and he found himself standing in his own room. It was night and the lights were gone. Satya saw his mother coming from the door with a candle. Seeing his mother alive, Satya came to tears and just as he went towards

7. her, to hug her, he crossed past her. ‘What?’ Satya was shocked. ‘He couldn’t touch his mother’. A voice from behind said “see for yourself.” He knew it was Niru. So Satya stood there, stood still, watching. In a while he remembered that this was the night just before his mother’s death. His mother said, “Satya you should start earning, apart from going to college you should earn a living for yourself”. The other Satya who was standing in the room turned back and said, “Why Maa? Why do you keep insisting on this? I am in my second year of college and I like to study”. They both sat on the bed as they talked. Maa spoke again, “Satya the money I have saved for you will end one day, what will you do then? You should think about your future from now”. Satya never liked this conversation and it was fourth time in the week that mother brought up the same conversation. He was little annoyed. He said, “Maa you said there is enough money for a year or two. Next year I will graduate and then I will pursue a job, I promise”. “Beta, what if I am gone, I should know that you will take care of yourself.” ‘There she goes again,’ thought Satya. This part he could not bear. Thinking of his mother’s demise scares him so much, that his fear disguises in anger. Satya takes a look at his mother. She is just 45, healthy, not a single physical ailment, not even a weak eyesight. Everything is normal then why she talks about her death. Satya said, “nothing’s gonna happen to you, don’t speak such rubbish again mother.” “So you will work?” asked maa.

8. Satya said in anger, “Why do you want to ruin my life maa, I am in college, and I am a great student. I top my class. I am the star of my theatre group, the star of every college function. The whole college knows me maa. They all say that I will get a very good job after college. Why do you want to ruin my dreams? If there is enough for a year or two then I will earn after a year maa. What’s the big deal in waiting for a year? Why do you blackmail me like this?” His mother was calm as usual. She knew that Satya is living the best phase of his life, his college days. But she also knew that it was important for him to start earning. Mother left the room. Satya lay on his bed trying to understand the reason for his mother’s weird behaviour. ‘She was never so adamant’, he thought. ‘May be she’ll understand when I will get a good job after I graduate.’ He slept. Meanwhile, Satya and Niru went to his mother’s room and saw her sitting on her bed and meditating. After a while, she started talking to someone. She said, “he is not ready for this now. How can I leave him unprepared?” The voice said, “Mother he will be fine, but we really need you here. We are unable to handle the situations here. They are growing stronger, faster than expected. At this pace, without you, we cannot save anyone. Mother we request you, please come.” Satya tried little harder to see who it was, and then he saw a figure as translucent as Niru, human form, older and broader in appearance, with joined hands & bowed down on his mother’s feet. Satya was stunned. “The war...” before the being could complete his sentence mother stopped him by hand. Mother took a moment of profound consideration. “Please come mother,” the voice insisted. She said, “Wait here”.

9. In her celestial body mother went to Satya’s room and kissed him on his forehead. Then she entered into her human body, lied on the bed & closed her eyes. And the same moment her celestial body got up from the bed, left the humanly body and went high up in the sky, with the celestial being. Satya and Niru watched the skies till the two of them looked like a speck of light and vanished. As the light vanished, so were Satya and Niru back in the room, where Shivi was asleep. Satya knew in his heart that his quarrel with his mother was not the reason of her demise. Till now he always thought that because of his fight with his mother, may be Maa was so depressed that she had a heart attack that night which the doctors were unable to diagnose. But in his heart he knew that she was a strong woman, it was next to impossible to pierce her inner peace, to make her worry or take stress over something. In his heart he knew that it could not be. But his mind did not have any other ideal reason for the sudden death of her mother. The doctors could not give any reason for her death. She was just, no more. Satya blamed himself for it. But now he has his answer. He looked at Niru. Niru saw the burden of his heart being lifted up as peace crawled over Satya’s face. He knew the answer was accepted.