Message from the Heavens -Part 2

The world around her stopped making any sense to shakti “So you guys are immortals or you have been resurrected or are you ghosts hey wait you are not transparent like casper “

“Stop freaking out ok else I will javelin throw you to outer space, like how you threw your chappals.”Draupadi’s hoarse voice spoke

“Relax draupadi you know this is how these mortals react. Ohk now lets get to work”  Sita opened a long parchment that was long enough to carpet the hall of  an Indian 2BHk flat  . “This is a list of your complaints that you have been constantly registering with the  heaven right from the day  you puked cerelac on you’r mother’s sari to this very moment ”

 “ So you guys are here to solve my problems” blurted out shakti

“No shakti we will teach you to solve your own problems” sita spoke with a caressing look

“Do you know how the Ramayan and Mahabharat would have sounded had it been written by a woman”Draupadi asked her with  a jeering look.

“I am sure the Bajrang dal and VHP would have burnt that lady’s idol “

The Heroes would no longer have remained Heroes don't you think so ? The world was praises for the Hero while it failed to acknowledge how a woman’s soul was ripped apart by her very own love. A princess who was the consort of the greatest men of his times  was meted out to such absolute indifference by a society that was inhabited by noble men and you expect the kaliyug to listen to your whining “

“And you still tell all of this without  even the slightest feeling of remorse and hatred”. Shakti was baffled

“Remorse ..no I do not regret loving Ram so madly ,don’t you think it takes a lot of courage to love someone in spite of the absence of the same level of passion from the other side? As for hatred do you think I could have survived those years of captivity and subsequently the years of abandonment by my husband if I had nurtured hatred and frustration within me. I have lived a dignified life, fell in love, learnt to control my mind and stay sane during my captivity , loved myself and lived a complete life, and in the end  detached myself from all human bonds".

Shakti turned to draupadi she was indeed distractingly beautiful …. No wonder why all the five brothers wanted to have her.

“You indeed were the most controversial woman in the trethayug were’nt you ??”

  She laughed ………. “Oh yes wasn’t I the overtly audacious   woman to have married five men and the root cause of one of the bloodiest wars the mankind ever witnessed  "Well that’s how history would remember me"

“No no ….. I dint intend to offend you I am so sorry but I was just curious to know how the assertive and aggressive Draupadi let people have their will on her ”

“What else could I have done I was 16 ,a motherless child devoid of fatherly affection living on the hope of  an overprotective brother  . Kunti gave her final verdict I either had to marry all five of them or I’d be sent back to my so called father as a disgraced woman. Despite my brother’s intense love for me he had to stay tongue tied in front of the royalty”. “I cried ,wailed, created a ruckus and then finally settled down to their agreement under a 16 year old’s delusion that perhaps now I will be cared for and loved by not one but 5 men thereby filling up the void that absence of affection  had created in my childhood” 

 “The rest is the bird’s song that sings on how all the men she trusted and vouched for gambled her soul . You must derive lessons from my life shakti and try to understand how a man’s mind works. 

For men, the softer emotions are always intertwined with power and pride ,they may love you with utmost honesty but there are other things they love more like notions on loyalty,honour and reputation . Yes my husbands did avenge my insult but it was cleverly timed with circumstances that would fetch them fame and heroism”

“Then why did you decide to go on a vanvaas with the pandavas despite their folly and was the void for love ever filled?”

“Vengenance shakti it was vengenance that  aggravated my determination to venture out for that vanvaas I wanted to keep reminding them of how they let me down and it was this very same vengeance that led me to hate myself in the end when I realized that thousands of women were widowed and a million children were left fatherless in the process of extinguishing the raging fire inside me. It was vengeance that distanced me from my karma of being a mother, leaving my children to be cared for by subhadra.Don’t you think that was so selfish of me ??”

 “As for love I was so stupid to have gone searching for it my entire life while it was right there in front of me all long” there was a surreal smile on her face

“Who was it draupadi ?”