"By promising daksha, sati has closed all options." "But how can sati marry someone other than shiva, o lord?" "You'll surely have to find a solution." "Solution... the solution is the same old one." "Shiva has rescued sati from every danger." "Always protected her." "Therefore, a grave danger will reunite shiva with sati." "That means are you planning a danger, o lord?" "O sage, i don't need to do anything." "Many years ago, shiva himself laid the foundations for it." "Which danger do you talk of, o lord?" "And that too, a danger that was created by shiva himself?" "But my lord shiva is always doing good." "Will you keep smiling to yourself or tell us something clearly?" "You're right, o sage." "Shiva is always doing good." "Then how could he create a danger?" "You're forgetting, o sage that shiva is also known as the innocent one." "And in his innocence, he went ahead to do good." "But ended up creating a danger." "The name of that danger is demon tarakasura." "Many years ago, tarakasura performed a penance in order to please shiva." "Tarakasura!" "My lord!" "My lord!" "My lord... pleased by your penance, i've come to grant you a boon." "Seek... seek the boon you wish for." "My lord, grant me immortality." "So that i may never die." "If you've been born in this world then your death is certain, tarakasura." "This is the law of nature." "Seek something else." "Lord... if this is the law of nature and my death is unavoidable and if you can't grant me immortality then alright, lord... grant me a boon that i may die only at the hands of your son." "You can grant me this boon, can't you?" "So be it." "O lord!" "You're truly innocent, o shiva!" "Even if unknowingly but you've granted me the boon of immortality." "You're a renunciate how can you get married and if you won't get married then how will you have a son?" "And if you don't have a son then how can i die?" "Tarakasura has become immortal, o lord!" "And now, this tarakasura will pose a danger and become the reason for shiva and sati's union." "O sage tarakasura just needs to know that shiva is planning to marry sati." "Praise be to narayana!" "My lord, it's my responsibility to fulfill the rest of the work." "I'll leave now... i'll leave now, to uplift the world." "Praise be to narayana!" "Praise be to narayana!" "Sati." "What are you doing, sati?" "There are some unwanted things i'm removing them." " What?" "!" "But why?" "You had resolved to complete the nanda penance." "I had become selfish." "But not anymore." "Never." "Do you understand the implications?" "Your union with shiva will become impossible." "I was born daksha's daughter." "I'm the virtuous daughter of my father." "And my end should be as that virtuous daughter." "Praise be to narayana!" "Praise be to narayana!" "Sage narada... here?" "Salutations, o sage." "Praise be to narayana!" "Sage narada visits a demon's palace... i'm shocked!" "Tarakasura... it's my duty to bode well to all." "I received a good news so i thought i should share it with you, too." "Good news?" "What good news?" "Tarakasur, you're a great devotee of shiva... yes." "I performed a penance for him once." "Lord shiva is very innocent." "Yes... that's true." "Now the good news is that he's going to give up his stance as a renunciate." "How does it concern me?" "It's good news for every devotee of shiva." "That shiva is going to give up his monkhood and get married." "Wow!" "So has he sent me an invitation to his wedding?" "Yes, you can consider it so." "If not for his wedding then death... death?" "My... sage narada!" "Obviously, you forget that i'm tarakasura." "And tarakasura is invincible and immortal." "You forget, tarakasura that you had sought a boon from shiva that your death will be at the hands of shiva's son." "Shiva's marriage to sati, prajapati daksha's daughter will guarantee the arrival of his son." "That means, now your... - never!" "I'll never let shiva and sati's wedding take place." "I'll kill sati." "If tarakasura has to remain immortal then sati's sacrifice is mandatory." "Vrishath!" "I want the news of sati's death." "At the earliest." "Sati!" "Why... why are you immersing the shiva linga?" "Don't commit this sin." "Don't commit this meaningless act, sati." "It'd be a sin, sister if shiva held some meaning in my life." "What's the purpose of keeping this meaningless and insignificant stone with me?" "It's fate that it should be immersed by me." "Don't be so heartless, sati." "Don't fool your own self." "If you want to then try to attain shiva." "I told you that these words don't hold any meaning for me now." "I've nothing to do with shiva now." "But... immortal and eternal shiva's immersion is impossible." "You cannot immerse shiva even if you want to." "You can remove the shiva linga from the house but your heart... can you remove him from your heart?" "If not love, then as hatred but shiva will reside in your heart forever." "By treading the path shown by lord vishnu and my father i'll erase shiva from my heart forever." "I'm getting late, i'll leave." "O lord, your boon has turned tarakasura into sati's enemy." "Sage... who is this tarakasura who wishes to harm mother sati?" "I'll slay him, right away." "Nandi... even shiva himself cannot slay tarakasura." "Tarakasura can be killed only by shiva's son." "That's a boon granted to him by shiva himself." "When he heard that adi shakti has taken birth as sati in order to marry shiva then he became sati's enemy." "If sati doesn't live, then how will she marry shiva?" "If the marriage doesn't happen, then how will they have a son?" "And if they don't have a son then who will slay tarakasura?" "He'll become immortal." "Now, i know why you don't wish to marry mother sati." "Because you wish to protect your devotee, tarakasura from death, isn't it, o lord?" "Why be so innocent, o shiva?" "Sacrificing your family for the sake of a devotee!" "This is unfair, o lord!" "This is unfair!" "You're mistaken, nandi." "I had granted tarakasura a boon because it was his right." "It was the fruit of his penance." "I couldn't stop myself from granting what he sought." "But my boon has nothing to do with my marriage." "I'm not accepting sati's love, only because sati isn't worthy of shiva's love yet." "But lord it's your duty to make her worthy of it." "Don't forget, o lord that clay isn't worthy of being a pot it's the potter who makes it worthy of it." "But lord by insulting sati you've shattered her tender heart." "And the consequence that emerges is that sati, herself is going to immerse the shiva linga." "What?" "!" "Mother sati is immersing the shiva linga?" "!" "Yes." "The lord's insult has turned sati into such a stone that the shiva linga is just a mere stone for her now." "Oh lord!" "Stop this cataclysmic event from happening!" "Mother sati immersing the shiva linga!" "Stop this calamity from taking place, o lord." "No, nandi." "If this is what sati wishes, then let her fulfill it." "I'll not interfere." "No, lord." "You're god." "You'll not know the pain of a devotee." "Ask this devotee, o lord will this devotee be able to witness mother sati immersing the shiva linga?" "No, lord... no." "If you don't wish to stop her then don't." "But i'm not going to stop, my lord." "I'll give up my life but i'll not let mother sati immerse the shiva linga." "I'll not let it happen!" "I'll not let it happen!" "My lord... my lord, nandi will stop sati from immersing the shiva linga but how will he protect her from the demon sent by tarakasura?" "Lord, you'll have to do something." "You'll have to protect her life, o lord." "Sati, i've not come to stop you from immersing the shiva linga." "You don't have the right to stop me." "Who are you to stop me?" "First, you put me in trouble then rescue me yourself." "Who are you to rescue me?" "What relationship do we share?" "I don't need your mercy." "I know that i'm dakshayani." "I'm bound by the limitations of this body made up of the five elements." "You called me unworthy that day but today... today, this sati considers shiva unworthy of her." "Shiva is just a stone for me." "Just a stone!" "Neither does it have a place in my heart nor in my house." "A stone that is only worthy of being immersed." "Sati, i understand your pain." "But i... - it was painful when i was under an illusion." "But today my heart has found peace after shattering the illusion." "I'd like to remind you of another thing." "A girl from a noble lineage repeatedly meeting another man is considered despicable by the society of prajapati daksha." "You live on the other side of the funeral ground." "And i... i live on this side." "The boundary of the funeral ground will remain between us forever." "I hope that you'll never attempt to cross that boundary." "Whether i live or die it has nothing to do with you anymore." "Mother!" "Stop, mother!" "Mother, stop!" "Please stop, mother!" "Please stop... do you recognise me, mother?" "I'm nandi." "I know that you're very upset with the lord." "But mother, i also know that my lord is very innocent." "He poses to be a renunciate but his heart is very tender, mother." "But i also know, mother that whatever is happening between the two of you today is because of an excess of love." "Nobody would've loved each other more in this world, as much as the two of you, mother." "It's apparent that he has taught you many a things." "But i'm not interested anymore." "You're very angry right now." "And any act committed in anger always results in regret, mother." "I request you that you take back the shiva linga." "I've full faith that when your anger subsides then you'll not even think of committing this sin." "Dakshayani cannot break her resolve." "Move aside." " No, mother!" "Do as you wish you can kill me if you wish but this devotee of the lord can't bear to see the immersion of the shiva linga." "I cannot see it, mother." "Mother... i request you please give it to me." "Please give it to me, mother." "But i'm giving it thinking that i've immersed this shiva linga." "I've eradicated shiva from my life forever." "Prajapati." "The preparations for the worship are complete." "Come, dear." "I was awaiting you." "The invitations for your wedding will be sent today." "The demi-gods and all celestial beings... suitors from all the three worlds will be sent invitations for your wedding." "Are you pleased to know, sati?" "Yes, father." "Send it." "First of all the invitation cards will be smeared with sandal, rice and turmeric and bestow divine grace on the invitation cards." "Come, sati." "Now, one by one, you should bless these as per ritual." "What happened, sati?" "Your face fails to betray signs of joy." "Is it so that you're unhappy that you'll be separated from your father post marriage?" "Rest your worries, dear." "I've clearly mentioned in the invitation cards that i'll get my daughter sati married to the person who'd agree to be the resident son-in-law of prajapati daksha." "I cannot imagine to see you away from me." "I'll keep my daughter near me forever." "Sati." "What is it?" "Aren't you happy with the decision of your marriage?" "Don't talk about happiness, mother." "I feel pain." "Have you and father taken this decision for the sake of my happiness?" "Then why won't i be happy?" "Why do you repeatedly keep asking me this?" "It appears that you don't trust your own decision." "I've told you earlier too, mother." "My happiness lies in the happiness of my father and this family." "There's nothing more left to say." "Don't ask me this question again." "Listen to me." "The 'tripura' mark!" "How did this appear on your arm?" "Sati!" "Where did it come from?" "This unholy and cursed mark... did shiva touch you?" "You cannot please anybody." "And you talk of pleasing your family and your father?" "Who will marry you now after seeing this mark?" "Answer me!" "Do you know the meaning of this?" "In this civilised society created by prajapati this is looked down upon." "This mark will turn into a curse and cast an omen upon your life." "Who will marry you?" "What will we tell the people?" "Who is our sati?" "Shiva's devotee?" "Who's mark is this?" "Shiva's?" "After hearing this, which noble lineage will agree to accept you as their daughter-in-law?" "And if prajapati's accomplishments and his prestige finds you a groom then it won't be a wedding it'll be a trade." "And relationships based on trade are never true!" "After such a wedding neither will you be respected as a wife nor will you receive the love of your husband." "That's why, sati you'll have to erase this mark." "Erase it!" "I tried, mother." "But this mark is indelible." "Then even this curse is indelible." "And the solution to this can be found only by prajapati." "Come with me." "Look carefully, sage brighu." "When will the day come all the stars and planets of the planet will be in an auspicious position." "I wish to conduct sati's marriage in such an auspicious hour." "I don't wish that even the shadow of despair should befall my daughter sati after the wedding." "The shadow of gloom has been cast, prajapati." "All the sorrow and misery has aligned itself to our family." "See this!" "Unholy!" "Very unholy!" "If i've loved someone the most in this world then it's only my daughter sati." "And if somebody has hurt me the most then it is you, sati." "You!" "But today it's the worst!" "Explain everything in detail." "Tell me, sati!" "It was an accident, father." "During the spring festival and after that this tripura mark became indelible." "Trust me, father." "Now, in my life shiva or any of his marks bear no importance." "When i've thrown him out of my soul then how am i concerned about his mark?" "My lord this mark is indelible." "It cannot be erased." "It is imprinted on her skin." "It can be erased." "It has to be erased." "I'll call all the doctors of the world." "I'll seek their opinion." "No, my lord." "It won't be advisable to do so." "It's a question of our family's honour and integrity." "You forget, my lord that today, we've sent invitations for sati's wedding." "If anybody comes to know then calamity will befall us, my lord!" "It has to be removed." "Why are you all quiet?" "Why doesn't somebody give me a solution to this?" "Tell me, how can this be removed?" "There's one way to remove this, prajapati." "The skin should be cut off." "Or that place should be burnt." "What an inhuman suggestion!" "I'll not let this happen with my daughter." "I'll not wish so either, mother prasudhi." "But there's no other solution." "Even you don't have any solution today, sage kashyap?" "!" "What happened to your knowledge of medicine?" "During aditi's wedding i didn't make you the master of medicine so that during times of distress you stand in silence!" "At any cost i need a medicine to remove this mark." "As you command, prajapati." "I'll surely try." "You'll have to be erased today." "No mark of shiva has any place on my body." "It's your imagination, sati." "Remove it from your mind." "Those who shirk from their duty under the cover of novel talks, are cowards." "And if somebody has hurt me the most then it's you, sati." "This mark will turn into a curse and cast an omen upon your life." "Our union is impossible." "Forget me, dakshini." "Your well-being lies in it." "If somebody has hurt me the most then it is you, sati." "Our union is impossible." "You can never please anybody." "There's only one way to remove it, prajapati." "The skin should be cut off." "Or that place should be burnt." "When i've removed you from my heart then this mark of yours cannot remain on my arm." "This mark has to be removed." "I accept your show of compassion!" "You couldn't stop yourself from showing compassion, could you?" "If i burnt my arm to remove the tripura mark then the burnt mark would've reduced my beauty." "Nobody would've married me." "But by protecting my beauty you've opened all the paths to my wedding." "I'm grateful to you, o lord." "I'm grateful to you." "Do me one last favour." "Henceforth don't bother to save me from any danger." "If you attempt to rescue me again then i'll give up my life." "And this is dakshayani's promise to you." "Sati, wake up." "The sun has risen." "Sati... today, the sun has brought endless joy with it." "Now, i truly believe that you've erased shiva from your heart." "That's why the mark has been removed too." "C'mon, are you going to sit here like this?" "Come, let's go to your father." "For all the grief that you caused him yesterday seeing this will grant him as much joy." "Come, sati... tell me." "What inauspicious news have you brought now?" "No, my lord." "The doors of this palace have been closed to inauspicious news, now." "See this." "What's this?" "The tripura mark... it has been erased." "When sati erased shiva from his heart then the mark had to go." "I can't believe it." "It's said that happiness never come alone sage brighu has come with proposals for sati's marriage." "Here he comes." "Did everybody accept the proposal?" "But sati's suitor will be a very fortunate man." "Why are you standing quietly, o sage?" "Mention the names of the most valiant among the suitors." "Who has come from heaven?" "Prajapati... the news isn't an auspicious one." "What do you mean?" "Nobody accepted the proposal." "What?" "!" "What was the reason?" "What did they say about sati?" "They all gave the same reason, prajapati." "That sati is shiva's lover." "By marrying sati nobody wishes to invite shiva's wrath." "Some even said that it'd be advisable if you personally got sati married to shiva." "What are you saying, sati?" "You didn't complete the nanda penance?" "But why?" "You love shiva, don't you?" "I used to." "But not anymore." "This isn't good, sati." "I had warned you." "I had told you that if this penance isn't completed then you'll be further distanced from shiva." "Why did you overlook my warning, sati?" "Something untoward takes place if this penance is broken midway." "I'm worried about you, dear." "Praise be to narayana!" "My lord... what will happen now?" "Sati has forbidden you from appearing before her." "If you appear before her then she'll give up her life." "And if you don't protect her now then the demon kantak will slay her." "What will you do now, o lord?" "How will you rescue sati?" "My lord... death approaches sati... do something!" "Kantak will kill sati!" "You can't play hide and seek with death for long, sati!" "Death has cast its shadow upon you!" "My lord will rescue mother sati." "Somehow!" "For my lord nothing is impossible, o sage." "So many satis!" "Tarakasura had asked me to kill just one sati." "Here comes, kantak with the good news of my immortality." "Sati isn't an illusionist." "She's not!" "Yes... there could be an illusionary power that armors sati's life." "Before sati we've to deal with the power that protects sati's life." "Praise be to lord shiva!" "Praise be to the innocent one!" "Did you see, o sage?" "I knew that my lord will surely protect mother sati." "He'll surely protect her." "O sage my lord rescued mother sati." "He rescued her!" "Yes, nandi." "But for how long?" "For how long?" "How long will you keep protecting sati with these temporary solutions?" "Tarakasura will repeatedly keep trying to kill sati." "I accept that you rescued sati from this external danger." "What will you do about the sorrow that kills her from within, o lord?" "How will you rescue her from that?" "How will you bring her out of this emotionless state?" "Greetings, father." "Tell me, son." "What brings you here all of a sudden?" "What can make a father feel more helpless that the fact that he can't get his daughter married?" "Everybody around the world claim sati to be shiva's lover." "Nobody is willing to marry sati." "You're the reason for this, daksha." "I'd told you before sati's birth that adi shakti will be born as your daughter in order to unite with shiva." "How then can you even think of getting sati married elsewhere, daksha?" "I don't consider shiva to be worthy of sati." "How then can i get sati married off to him?" "But daksha... - no, father." "I don't wish to listen to anything." "I'll only return when i get what i came for." "You'll have to find a suitor for sati." "Promise me that you'll find a worthy suitor for sati." "This is impossible, daksha!" "Impossible!" "Who will agree to marry shiva's lover?" "I don't know." "Just promise me." "Son... try to understand what i say." "You try to understand your son's needs." "Can't you fulfill this small wish of your son?" "If you send me back empty-handed today then i'll give up my life." "Enough, daksha!" "Enough!" "Alright." "I promise you that i'll find a suitor for sati." "You should find a solution to this, o narayana." "I'm compelled by my son's stubbornness." "So that shiva and sati are married soon somebody has to agree to marry shiva, brahmadeva." "Upon seeing somebody willing to marry sati shiva might agree to marry her." "But who will be willing to marry sati, narayana?" "We'll have to incorporate greed into the ego, o brahma." "Only then can we fulfill our objective." "Narayana... i didn't understand." "Your son daksha represents ego." "And greed is represented by sage angira." "When the two come together... sage angira's son will surely be willing to marry sati." "Brahmadeva... tell daksha to take sati's wedding proposal to sage angira." "Prajapati daksha and sage bhrigu are welcome to this poor sage's hermitage." "What brings you here?" "Prajapati daksha himself has brought the wedding proposal of his daughter for your younger son, sadhbish." "Only one of your daughters is unmarried." "Her name is sati." "But... she's shiva's lover." "I've heard many say so." "Those who envy prajapati daksha spread such rumours about my family in order to defame me." "I didn't intend to insult you, prajapati." "In fact, i'm willing to accept sati as my daughter-in-law." "But i've a condition." "In return, you'll have to give me your position as prajapati (ruler)." "You might remember, prajapati." "In the race for the position of prajapati i was much ahead of you." "But you were dearer to brahma." "He was unjust towards me." "And made you the prajapati, instead." "You're welcome if you accept my condition else, forget about sati's wedding." "Nobody will be willing to marry shiva's lover." "I'll give you half of my powers and half of my authority." "But your son will have to be my resident son-in-law, post-marriage." "You trade well, prajapati." "I accept." "But it'd be better if you first meet my son, sadhbish." "I don't wish to hide anything from you." "I accept your son." "However he is he'll have to live in my presence as my resident son-in-law." "The prajapati is doing grave injustice to her own daughter sati!" "You could've summoned me if required why did you take the trouble?" "We've come to invite you, o lord." "Invitation for what?" "Invitation for a meal." "I want you to come to our place for the same." "Food is a need of the mortal world, o goddess." "Since when have you started behaving like humans?" "If adi shakti can be born in human form then can't we follow their customs for a while, o lord?" "It has its own pleasure." "If your intention is to make me attain human form in order to meet sati then your idea is futile." "You know very well that i'm bonded to renunciation to knowledge... tricks and ploys aren't a part of my nature." "God has to resort to tricks for the welfare of the world." "He even has to assume human form." "If sati isn't able to overcome her limitations then you go within her limitations." "If sati is upset with you and has stopped you from appearing before her then assume another form and pacify her." "This is love." "Until now, you were afraid that if you marry an unworthy sati then calamity will befall." "But what could be more catastrophic, o lord that adi shakti is married off to a mere mortal." "My egoistic son has fixed sati's marriage to angira's son sadbish." "Do you think that sati can stay alive after marrying him?" "Adi shakti is your consort." "She is born only for you." "If a mere mortal even touches her as a husband then all hell will break loose, o lord." "If this insult gives rise to adi shakti's wrath then not even the trinity can stop the world from reducing to ashes." "All of creation will be destroyed, o lord." "You'll have to stop this marriage." "And you'll also have to console sati." "This is possible only when you assume human form and approach sati." "Yes, my lord." "This is the only solution." "Our union is impossible." "Because you're the daughter of prajapati daksha... a dakshayani." "The truth is that your life is bound by limitations." "And i'm much beyond that." "The people of daksha's world and daksha's daughter end their journeys here." "And from here starts my world where i live... why do you keep appearing before me?" "Don't you know that he's the supreme among the gods?" "And i'm just an ordinary human." "I can receive his mercy not his love." "It was my mistake." "When he has left my heart then why are you still here?" "You'll have to go from here." "You'll have to go." "You'll have to go!" "Sati." "Yes, father." "I've fixed your marriage, sati." "I've fixed your marriage to sage angira's son and brihaspati's brother, sadhbish." "Sadhbish is a very knowledgeable man." "And you know that you don't need anything else in the place where knowledge resides." "You'll be very happy with him." "They're coming to meet you today." "And we'll formalise the wedding today." "My lord... there's great urgency... the countdown has begun." "Sadhbish is about to visit sati." "If they formalise the wedding then we'll not have any options left." "Lord, you should meet sati right away." "There's no time to think, o lord you'll have to pay sati a visit." "Salutations, o lord." "You've given me a place on your forehead." "That's why i can sense your thoughts." "I know that even though you might not say a word but your mind and heart are eager for sati." "Then, why this adamancy, o lord?" "Why don't you accept your love?" "Forgive me, lord." "Your behaviour is beyond my understanding." "Mother sati is your consort." "She has taken birth for you, o lord." "How then can she marry another, o lord?" "Does she really mean nothing to you?" "Tell me, lord." "It's impossible that i assume human form." "I always care for humans." "I even help them." "But i can never assume human form." "There's a funeral ground that separates me and humans." "Neither has your father daksha, accepted me." "And nor have i accepted your love." "Forget me." "It's just your imagination." "Our union is impossible!" "Try as you may want, sati, you can't live here." "Sati!" " Mother!" "Rudraksha?" "!" "Send for sage kashyap." "Go!" " Yes, mother." "Sati... careful... shall i go to kailasha?" " Why, sister?" "My offense is much greater than that of chandra." "My offense is that i'm human." "And being human, i aspired to attain god." "Sati's blood cannot go waste, o lord." "I wish to meet you, chandra." "Call me." "Call me, chandra." "Such pain!" "Such grief for mother sati!" "Then why don't you go to fetch her?" "I'm unable to understand your stance, o lord!" "Now, there's very little time left." "Daksha is getting mother sati married to someone else, o lord." "If this happens then calamity will befall." "You'll have to go to her." "You'll have to decide on sati today, o lord." "I don't know the compulsions that keep you away from sati." "But i surely know that without you, sati dies with each passing moment." "Only you know your compulsions, o lord i'm very small to judge it." "I haven't come to seek sati's life." "I've just come to tell you that if you can't accept sati then atleast grant her death." "The conqueror of death can surely render this favour to sati." "Atleast she'll be saved the pain of dying every moment." "You bade well to your enemies too then sati's your lover." "Won't you..." " even i care for sati." "Go on no trouble will befall sati." "You mean... you're willing to marry sati?" "Only time can reveal what it stores." "But nothing will be against sati anymore." "That's my promise." "Go on." "What is it, sage kashyap?" "Prajapati, there's nothing to worry." "I've given sati a healing potion." "Sati will regain her senses in a short while." "Sage angira and sadhbish must be on their way." "But our daughter isn't ready yet." "Tell your daughter to dress her up." "My lord..." "in this unconscious state how do we dress her up?" "Why can't it be done?" "Sage kashyap has said that she'll regain her senses in a short while." "The groom's family will reach by then." "The auspicious hour waits for none." "Moreover, this auspicious time is very short and i don't wish to miss it." "We're battling against time now." "Try to understand." "And tell your daughters to dress up sati." "When will you rid sati of her woes, o lord?" "Once the wedding is formalised nothing can be done, o shiva." "The groom's family is here." "Go ahead with your daughters." "Sage kashyap will sati regain her senses?" " Surely, prajapati." "We've to welcome them." "But my lord, how will you help sati?" "You cannot appear before sati in your actual form." "Then i'll go as a human." "You'd told me, brahma that sati is my responsibility." "I'll fulfill my responsibility." "Shiva has to assume human form for sati." "My lord!" "I'm greatly pleased, o lord!" "I'm greatly pleased!" "My mother will come to kailasha!" "There might be shortcomings in my service to you but i'll cause any inconvenience to mother." "Never!" "You're great!" "You're great, o lord!" "My heart rejoices, o lord!" "It rejoices!" "All of creation will rejoice today, o lord." "No, brahmadeva." "I'll surely assume human form for sati's sake." "But the truth is that sati is still unworthy of union with me." "But the truth is also that sati is a part of me." "If she's wounded then i experience the pain." "I've always loved sati." "And i'll always love her." "But i'm under compulsion." "I cannot accept sati's love." "You know, brahma that if i accept an unworthy sati then the consequences can be terrible." "I refuse to accept her only to save her from that grave calamity." "But the truth is also that i'm unhappy without sati." "Shiva is incomplete without sati." "He's partial." "He's lacking." "And i'll have to bear this lacking till sati doesn't become worthy of union with shiva." "Shiva awaits his union with sati." "But i can't leave sati helpless... i can't see her drown in the ocean of misery." "Sati can't emerge out of this sorrow alone." "Knowingly or unknowingly, i'm the reason for it." "Love without duty is incomplete." "I've loved sati and now, in human form, i'll fulfill my duty." "I'll surely go to sati." "Praise be to narayana!" "My lord... shiva amazes me every moment." "Shiva has agreed to meet sati in human form." "But now he says that he'll meet sati in human form but not marry her." "Shiva will only lift sati out of her misery." "I'm unable to understand him." "O sage... he appears simple but it isn't so simple to understand him." "That's why we're gods and he's the supreme amongst us." "Let shiva go to sati once this story will slowly progress towards their marriage." "It's time for me to rest, o sage." "My actions end here and shiva's begins." "But lord shiva is innocence personified." "Without your help how will he able to play his part?" "You too have made a mistake in understanding him." "Shiva is the master of all virtues and arts." "He's all-knowing... he's the guru everything... he knows it all." "Just wait and watch what shiva does now." "It's time now for the world to witness shiva's miracles." "Prepare to witness his miracle." "Prajapati, they're coming." "What sort of a suitor has prajapati brought?" "Despite being the father he's being so unfair to his dearest daughter!" "He decided on such a vital issue and kept us all in the dark!" "Prasudhi... the auspicious time is passing by... welcome the guest." "Isn't it time?" "Shall we go?" "On whose trust do you forge this alliance?" "Your parents?" "But you're being cheated, sati." "Shadbish isn't worthy of you." "He's so ugly so disgusting that let alone marriage you won't even be able to look at him." "Sati... are you listening to me?" "Refuse the alliance, sati." "Refuse it." "I've promised father." "If this is the case, then i prasudhi, the daughter of the self-manifested manu liberate you from this promise." "Prasudhi." "Sati is a wise girl." "She very well knows that the beauty of a person is not by his appearance but by his soul, his thoughts and his knowledge." "Beauty fades with age." "But knowledge increases with age." "For pleasing your ego how much more will you argue?" "What's the reason for declaring sadhbish unfit for sati?" "What does he lack?" "Hadn't he been worthy then brahmadeva wouldn't have sent me to him." "This is the heart of a mother." "Prajapati's arguments aren't going to melt it." "I know very well what's good or bad for my child." "And there's no doubt that your decision regarding sati isn't well-meaning for her." "I accept this alliance." "Why are you doing this, sati?" "Why do you sacrifice yourself in order to satisfy your father's ego?" "Why?" "!" "You heard the decision of prajapati daksha's daughter." "Now perform your duty." "Go on." "Attend to the groom and his father." "Go on." "Never!" "I'll never let this happen." "This very moment i give up food and water." "Either this alliance will break or i'll give up my life." "This is the oath of manu's daughter prasudhi, my lord." "Daksha had promised me that upon completion of your marriage to sati he'll give me half the authority and powers of a prajapati." "I'll not leave without taking them." "And that's not possible without the..." "It's your duty to agree with your father." "Whether sati sees your inner beauty or not you'll have to marry her for your father's sake." "What mistake have i done, o lord that i've to see this day?" "My fail mistrusts me so much?" "My wife looks upon me as the enemy of my daughter." "My lord, i'm unable to understand anything." "Please guide me." "I've none except you." "You all are upset about sadhbish's ugliness." "Greetings, father." "But... by questioning sadhbish's appearance you're questioning my intent." "I've created sadhbish after considering sati." "If his ugliness is the cause of disagreement then i've a solution to make him handsome." "What solution do you have, father?" " The solution is difficult." "But i'll tell you." "Listen carefully." "There's a magical sculptor." "Sculptor?" "If he demonstrates his true skill and creates a realistic idol depicting a handsome sadhbish then sadhbish will become handsome." "But what's the difficulty in it, father?" "The only difficulty is in convincing him, daksha." "Tell me, where will i find that sculptor?" "I'll summon him here right away." "Situated in the middle of the desert in the karvata shrinkhala he lives atop jateswara mountain." "He's unique independent and an impressive man." "Even the trinity of the gods can't force him against his wishes." "For him, your status your order hold no value, daksha." "Remember daksha that if you try to impress your position upon him or if you anger him, maybe he'll never help you." "But definitely if he accepts your invitation then assume that nobody can stop sati's marriage." "It isn't right to give meaning to this, sati." "You'll not attain anything by misleading yourself." "It isn't possible for me to see my daughter waste away her life for shiva." "This mark wil become a curse and ruin your life." "Our union is impossible." "Because you're the daughter of prajapati daksha... a dakkhini." "The truth is that your life is bound by limitations." "And i'm much beyond it." "Our union is impossible." "Are you insane?" "Can't you see?" "What do you intend?" "Do you wish to die?" "What is it, revati?" "What's all this?" "Sati's drape had caught fire and she was unaware of it." " Sati... her body has turned cold." "Sati... come, rest for a while." "Your worries have been laid to rest now." "Brahma himself appeared and gave us a solution to this problem." "Please give your consent to this wedding now." "Give up your anger and break your fast." "No." "Until sadhbish turns handsome i'll not give my consent for this wedding." "And neither will i break my fast." "What is it, o lord?" "Why do you smile to yourself?" "I was wondering how shiva's miracles might be." "I've never seen shiva's divine act." "He speaks in simple terms, the personification of innocence." "But he'll meet daksha tomorrow in a new form." "That's what i'm worried about too, o lord." "What if daksha realises shiva's reality... if daksha could realise shiva's reality then this problem wouldn't have arised in the first place." "O goddess... are you prepared?" "Shiva's divine act begins after yours." "You'll take shiva to daksha." "Yes." "I know what i've to do." "Let the sun dawn on earth tomorrow." "O sage!" "It appears we've lost our way." "Father brahma had said that jata lives on the mountains." "But i see no mountains here." "You can't see jata's mountain so easily." "If you ride an elephant then you can't find jata!" "If you wish to meet him then like me you'll have to tread the earth." "Get down." "Let's go." "Welcome, prajapati daksha!" "In your arrogance you considered yourself greater than shiva himself!" "As long as i'm here until then, i'll repeatedly deal such blows to your ego that you'll never forget." "Go and fetch water." "My curry will get burnt." "This is jata's servant." "Without his permission we can't meet jata." "Let jata make sadhbish's idol after that, i'll punish this servant such that he'll never dare behave uncouth!" "Master." "Tell me." "What is the matter?" "I wish to get my daughter sati married to sage angira's daughter, sadhbish." "But sadhbish is very ugly." "Brahma informed me of your extraordinary powers." "Hence, i've come to requet you to make a beautiful idol of sadhbish so that he can turn handsome." "If you wish for a handsome groom then find one for your daughter." "Master, he's prajapati daksha." "His daughter sati loves shiva." "But he... he detests shiva." "That is the reason for getting sati married to sadhbish." "Surely... surely this marriage is against sati's wishes." "This is untrue!" "This marriage has the consent of my daughter." "My wife wants a handsome son-in-law." "That's why i request you to come along with me." "No, master, he's misleading us." "The truth is something else." " Sevakram!" "As a sculptor, i breathe life into lifeless stone." "But never have i turned a living man handsome." "Go on, prajapati daksha." "I'll surely pay you a visit." "Go on." "Prepare for my master's arrival." "And remember my master is a very stubborn man." "He can become displeased without warning." "Hence, there should be no lacking in his service." "Understood?" "And remember, whatever is happening is for your daughter sati's wedding." "That's why your daughter will welcome my master." "Look, dear." "I'm being forced to do so much for you." ""Praise be to narayana..."" ""praise be to narayana..."" ""praise be to narayana..."" ""praise be to narayana..."" ""serene in appearance, resting on a serpent..."" ""with a lotus emerging from the navel..."" ""the core of all creation the cloud-complexioned one, the embodiment of holiness."" ""Beloved of goddess lakshmi, meditated upon by the yogis."" ""I bow to thee o vishnu, remover of all inequality and fear, the master of the universe."" ""Praise be to narayana..."" ""i bow to thee o vishnu, remover of all inequality and fear, the master of the universe."" ""Praise be to narayana..."" ""praise be to narayana..."" ""praise be to narayana..."" ""praise be to narayana..."" "just a few moments back sati wasn't able to get up." "But now... i'm very pleased to see you healthy." "Chanting vishnu's name in the house of the devotee of vishnu bestows happiness and prosperity." "Sevak!" "Sculptor jata has brought you a gift." "Accept it." "Accept it, dear." "I'm pleased that you..." " did i seek your opnion?" "Did i ask you how you felt?" "No, right?" "Whatever i do here, i don't need anybody's opinion on it." "Do you understand?" "I was just... - sevak!" "Didn't you tell him that i don't accept any comments on my orders and instructions?" "!" "I did, master." "Then why does he wish that i don't respect or honour him?" "Forgive him, master." "Maybe due to his old age his memory has become poor, master." "Sevak!" "Tell your master not to forget his manners." "And always remember that this is daksha's palace." "And the one in whose presence you stand is prajapati daksha, himself." "The ruler of this world." "A daughter like her is begotten through rigorous penance and worship alone." "You're fortunate, prajapati daksha!" "A goddess... she's a goddess." "You've forgotten sati's reality, daksha." "After years of penance you pleased goddess shakti and sought a boon from her that she be born as your daughter." "So that shiva can marry sati and uplift the world." "When will the work begin, sir?" "Sevak." "I had informed them, master." "But as i said due to old age his memory has weakened." "Why do you annoy my master?" "Don't you understand the temperament of an artist?" "If my master loses his temper then let me warn you none will be able to convince him." "But i just..." " the master told just now about his temperament." "Have you forgotten?" "Can't you just keep quiet and liseten?" "And remember whenever my master wishes he'll do his job." "I've searched long for such a girl." "Practising any form of art with her will allow the artist to reach the pinnacle of his skills." "Now, i don't just hope... i believe that sadhbish's idol will be my most beautiful creation." "But until completion of the work sati will have to be with me." "Ill-mannered!" "Don't be so unethical." "And you've to create sadhbish's idol what does sati have to do there?" "He left!" "Master's angry!" "Make your idol now." "Make the idol of all these people." "Wait, great sire!" "Wait!" "I'll keep everything in mind." "But it isn't possible for sati to be with you." "What are you saying?" "!" "Sevak... make your master see reason." "My daughter sati is about to get married." "In the presence of the groom's family how can sati go with jata." "What will the people say?" " Sevak!" "If it's my master's wish, then so it is." "Now you think of it." "What do you want?" "But this isn't right." "Wait!" "Give me some time." "I can give you an answer after consulting my family." "Master... give them some time." "My master has given you a last chance." "Consult your family if you wish." "But remember that if you refuse now, then my master will never make any idol for you." "If you all agree then my master will start work on the idol, tonight itself in the light of the lamp that sati holds." "Be patient, sire." "I'll consult my family and return." "It's surprising, my lord." "He talks of staying with your daughter and instead of opposing him you're being influenced by him!" "His arrival is very auspicious for us." "Think of it." "When the music of his hymn reached sati's ears she regained her health." "What's wrong in it?" "As you wish." "How do you like our room of art?" "I hope that you'll soon start work on the idol." "C'mon... we shouldn't delay any further." "Come, let us leave." "Prasudhi... come." "Unfair." "Unjust!" "Shiva has been unjust to you." "I'm aware of everything." "It isn't right for you to take interest in this matter." "Please complete the job assigned by my father." "Don't waste time." "I can understand your desire to get married." "But in the language of art this isn't called wastage of time." "I was just trying to estimate whether your mind is steady or not." "Is it steady?" "What does the steadiness of the mind have to do with sculpture?" "A question in reply to a question!" "You don't wish to speak the truth." "I haven't come here to solve riddles." "Please do your job." "Trust me." "That's what i'm doing." "You haven't forgotten shiva completely yet." "Isn't it?" "You didn't answer." "Sculptor!" "Remember that i'm prajapati daksha's daughter." "Don't exceed your boundaries." "Transparency between the artist and his inspiration is unavoidable." "Or else, all these efforts are futile." "Don't you understand the difference between transparency and getting personal?" "Why did you promise your father when you didn't wish to fulfill it?" "Who are you to question me?" "And what do you know about my desire?" "A question in reply to a question!" "You don't wish to speak the truth." "Let it be." "This idol can never be made." "And neither can sadhbish ever be handsome." "Your mother will not give her consent for this wedding." "Can't the idol be made or are you incapable of making it?" "It seems your father hasn't told you about my skills." "With these hands, i can give the idol, the form that you imagine." "If you think of shiva, then the idol will resemble him." "And i'd never want that." "Because, like your father, i too am anti-shiva." "What does shiva have?" "He's beyond civility." "To him, order and rules hold no meaning." "Why is the lord speaking thus?" "But your father wishes to live in society." "He wants to conduct his daughter's marriage." "This will further distance mother sati from shiva." "That's why i came to help him." "But i didn't know that i was wasting my time." "It seems the lord doesn't wish to marry mother sati." "I'm giving you one last chance, lady." "Think about it." "You picked up the lord's scent after all." "The god may have changed his form for the world." "But how can he hide from you?" "You're his dearest after all." "Go on, meet the lord." "And tell him not to speak ill of himself to mother sati." "Invoke love towards him in her heart." "Will you tell him so?" "Will you tell him, o serpent-iord?" "Go on... hurry up." "Oh no!" "Oh no... what have i done?" "Even mother sati is present in the room." "Seeing the serpent-god in fear, if she touches shiva then calamity will befall." "Upon touching him mother sati will realise that this is the lord." "My lord!" "He could've harmed you." "This innocent being who struggles for his own survival how can he harm me?" "O lord i'll place him in a safe place." "Did you meet the lord?" "And you even touched him." "Go now but remember that whenever the lord is with mother sati nobody should come near him." "Convey this to your friends too." "Because even the lord has a personal life." "Do you understand?" "Go now." "I stopped mother sati from touching shiva but nothing else should come in between now." "Nothing else should come in between." "I'm ready." "Tell me, what do i have to do?" "Just like how the reflection is clearly visible in still waters similarly, the imagination of a still mind inspires me in a new direction." "Now the responsibilities rest with you." "You should imagine an attractive form of sadhbish." "Remember, o lady the form that you imagine will be the one that i'll grant this idol." "I'm unable to imagine sadhbish." "Try first, lady." "Think of him." "Try... now think when you met sadhbish for the first time when you saw him first... now think, if that sadhbish had been handsome then how'd he have appeared?" "Imagine... you saw shiva!" "My lady, this means that you promised your father and relieved shiva from thinking about you." "But what about the one whom you've hidden in your heart?" "An unfulfilled desire." "An incomplete dream." "But how do i liberate myself from it?" "My lady, you'll first have to shatter this illusion that you've to liberate yourself." "After that, there are just two options." "Either you fulfill your desire if not then let these memories and thoughts vanish." "Until you empty your heart of these thoughts how will you fill it with another's thoughts?" "Come... let's try it together." "I can't do it." "I can't do this." "Only your efforts can create sadhbish's idol." "Then i don't wish to make sadhbish's idol." "I can't bear this torture." "However sadhbish is i accept him in the same form." "But your mother's opposed..." " i've to marry him." "I'll convince mother." "She has to accept." "She has to accept." "But... my lord... what happened?" "Shiva has filled her heart with such sorrow that there's no hope left in her life." "She has stopped dreaming." "She doesn't know the difference between joy and sorrow." "She has to start dreaming again." "She has to give rise to new hopes in her mind." "And this is possible only when she leaves daksha's abode." "I don't wish to be handsome." "Then how will this marriage happen?" "I don't want such a marriage." "However i am it is my identity." "Why should i sacrifice my identity for marriage?" " Sadhbish!" "Not just that in order to make me handsome, my future wife is with another man alone, all night... i don't see anything wrong in that." "Before everybody comes to know of your opinion..." "What's this?" "You said that this idol will look better in the light of sati's lamp." "Your stone is of poor quality." "How can stone crumble like sand?" "How can it crumble?" "Since when have you become more knowledgeable about sculpture than my master?" "If it is so then why don't you sculpt the idol?" "Why don't you make sadhbish handsome?" "Calm down, sire." "If we had to make the idol then we'd not have troubled you." "The work should begin at the earliest." "We'll arrange for the type of stone that you need at the earliest." "What do you think that you can fetch everything?" "Not at all." "These ordinary stones won't do." "Sati has to accompany me to fetch the stone needed for the idol." "Alone... i won't let my daughter go alone with this man on an unknown journey." "If you believe that i'm capable of enhancing sadhbish's beauty then you should also believe that sati is safe with me." "If you don't believe so then you can ask somebody else to make it." " Let's go." "Don't be angry, sir." "There are many solutions to a problem." "Let me know if there's another option." "Had there been another option i'd have told you about it earlier." "Sire... such a big decision is possible only after consulting my family." "I need another opportunity." "Please rest until then." "Arrangements for your rest... it's not required, prajapati." "I'm a renunciate." "I put up camp anywhere." "Moreover, it's very suffocating here." "I'll arrange for my stay in the city." "Sage... whichever place he likes in the city please arrange for his stay there." "Grant me leave, sire." "I'll return at the earliest." "But my lord why do you wish to stay in the city?" "If i've assumed human form for sati then i should spend some time with humans as well." "Alas!" "Sin!" "Grave sin!" "You're stamping lord shiva?" "!" "What are you staring at, sinner?" "Go away!" "I bow to thee, o shiva!" "Praise be to shiva, the supreme!" "Eat it, dear." "No." "I'll go home and eat it with mother." "Due to her ill-health mother couldn't fetch wood from the forest." "So nothing could be cooked at home." "I'll take both the fruit and the wood home." "You're very innocent, son." "I'll fulfill all your wishes today." "What do i ask... yes!" "My mother misses my uncle a lot." "My mother says that when my uncle will return he'll bring me a lot of toys and clothes." "Grant me a boon that my uncle returns home today." "So be it." "I'll inform mother right away that my uncle is going to come back home today." "Sati... let's go to the river bank." "We'll immerse the flowers." "You'll feel refreshed too." "Come... separation from shiva is the sole reason for sati's plight." "I'll not let her come back here." "Help me." "The lord's boon came true." "My uncle's here." "Uncle!" "Lord shiva appeared before me today." "I told him to send my uncle back home today." "See this." "I've brought many toys for you." "See this." "I'll keep them inside." "By reviving your dead brother i can't disturb the cycle of creation." "But in order to please a child i can surely pose to be his uncle." "Henceforth shiva is your brother, sister." "And whenever sukarna needs his uncle then he'll surely come." "I won't let you go, uncle." "I'll not let you go anywhere." "Oh... sukarna only if uncle goes can he bring aunty." "You know..." "we're going to appease her because she's very upset with him." "And do you know, she's the daughter of a great king." "And also a very arrogant girl." "She can't be convinced so easily." "That's why you should let us both go there." "Alright?" "You eat these savouries." "You keep this." "Why hasn't he turned up yet?" "Sister... what are we doing here?" "C'mon, let's go back home." "You don't have to go back home now, sati." "Sati... come, let's take a stroll on the other side." "I'll find a boatman."