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Breaking illusion's chains...
Sharane
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Submitted to Contest #2 in response to the prompt: 'The lines between fiction and reality get blurred when your character starts writing a new book.'

With more curiosity, Bhavya starts reading the most awaited book “A old story- King Puranjan” for her new play script. Making her mind positively she came across the 1st chapter.

Chapter 1: Introducing the King
This starts in Sathya Yuga. Puranjan, the mighty king was full of big dreams. Sometimes this lead him to become greedy. He wanted to be the No.1 king and not interested in hardworking. He just wanted direct results. A day, he searched for the land which wants to be the best, beautiful,holy and seems equal to heaven. Fortunately, after long journey,he was successful with his goal and found a beautiful place, Bharat Varsh to rule.

Knocking sound disturbed her and she went out. Then her mother told her a happy news that Bhavya’s brother bought a new land. This correlated with Puranjan as he found a new land. After her dinner,she rushed her room to read next chapter with positive vibes .

Chapter 2: The enchanting stranger
King Puranjan planned to construct a kingdom. Suddenly Puranjan hit by the cupid’s arrow as he saw a beautiful woman who seemed to be directly came from the heaven. He fell love with her at the sight. She was coming with protection by many guards and by huge 5 headed snake. He approached her and conveyed his feelings. She too accepted him with a condition that she will leave him after her particular time gets over. Then Puranjan asked about her native and about her protection as she looked like an angel and not like a normal woman. She replied, “I don't know about my parents and I just grown up with my friends who are here for my protection. This snake is like my shield. It won't leave me alone and always protect me even if I don't know that snake”. These are all not a matter for him as he loved her blindly.

Suddenly, Bhavya’s dad called her and delighted that he had selected Rahul as Bhavya’s groom. She connected her with Puranjan as he selected his life partner and with that excitement,she started next chapter.

Chapter 3: Pleasure's poisoned grip
King Puranjan married that woman. He started his ruling with his new kingdom and with his lovable wife. As the days passed, the king began to neglect his duties. Not only he immersed in excessive pleasures, but he was also very attached to his wife. He always kept his wife's hand in his pocket. He can't live a second without his wife.So people started to hate him as he didn't care about them.

A loud phone ring disrupted her. She attended the call.Bhavya's future husband Rahul spoke. He told Bhavya that he liked when seeing her in the photo very much and that he would do anything for her. Then he told her about him. Hearing Rahul talking like this, Bhavya remembered Puranjan. Because he also loved only his wife like this. Because of this, people disliked him. She thought that this situation would happen to Rahul too. So she was curious to read what was the next.

Chapter 4: The fall of Puranjan
Seeing Puranjan immersed in his pleasures, the Gandharva thieves easily overpowered him and looted all his wealth. Even he can't save his wife and children from them. Also their guards and the 5 headed snake also died in that battle.As per her previous condition,his wife had left him as she disgusted him. But the reason of such an incident happened was because he was not doing his duties properly and was solely dependent on his wife.

As she finished reading this chapter, Bhavya felt a fear. She was afraid that if Rahul loved her too much, he would abandon his duty. So she decided to read the last chapter and then talk to Rahul.

Chapter 5: The path to liberation
Puranjan died after being badly beaten by the Gandharva thieves. The messengers of Lord Yamadharmaraj took the soul of the Puranjan to Yamapuri. Lord Yama sent him to hell because he did not done his duty properly and only wanted his wife and other pleasures.Apart from that a man should worship God wholeheartedly in his birth with the intention of attaining Him. But Puranjan never thought about God at any moment. That's why he threw Puranjan into the evil hell. After completing his punishment, Puranjan was reborn as a princess in the royal family in his next birth and married a king named Malayathvaj. Puranjan, who was born as Puranjani, was married to a pious and heroic Malayathvaj in this birth, so she regularly performed her devotional duties along with him. Having a good-natured husband, Puranjani accumulated many merits in this birth. Finally, by the grace of God, Puranjani attained the Supreme Godhead after the death of Malayathvaj. But Puranjan had not given his wife such an opportunity. But in this life, even though he was born as a woman, Puranjani had found a suitable husband.Therefore, the conclusion is that even if we like things, we should not get caught up in illusion and enjoy them and not perform our duties. We should keep our mind strong and perform our duties properly.

As soon as Bhavya finished reading this, she first wrote the script of Puranjan for her drama. She called Rahul and met him in a park. That was their first meeting. Rahul was so excited and expressed his feelings. After Bhavya showed her script to him,she requested him to read. He read Puranjan’s story completely and thought “How fool I was! Almost I was like Puranjan before reading this.He lost everything because of fake hapiness. I blindly love Bhavya and decided to be her slave. But now I understood that this is not a true life. Really life is to spend with positive devotional thoughts and to do our duties without fail. Also not to fall into illusions”. Rahul told Bhavya that she had opened his eyes.

At that time, Bhavya thought that when she first read Puranjan's story, she thought about how he was immersed in pleasures, and that life would be better if it were like that. But as she read on, she came to know about the bad consequences. When she read that legend, it seemed like a story. But she realized that if something like that happened in real life, it would be a very sad thing to experience.That's why she thought that Rahul shouldn't make this mistake.

Bhavya won in the play for which she started reading this story. After watching that play, Rahul realized that it was not good to greedily pursue wealth and love only wife with excessive affection, without performing one's duties properly and without worshipping God.

In reality, one should never get caught up in this world of illusion and neglect one's real duties. Bhavya, who started reading for a script , realized the good in it and transformed herself in real life.





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Super story again

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This was a fantastic story ????

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Explained a deep meaning in a short story. Very worth to read. All should definitely read this and need to break these illusions.

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A story contains 2 stories in it. Amazing!!

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Conveyed a beautiful story in a clear way.

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