All the beautiful daughters of Mara by Ashok Aatreya (books to read for 12 year olds .TXT) 📕
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A novel written by Ashok atreya is an attempt of embodying the para-psychological, ethereal and day-to-day experiences of the hero. The Key to this novel is very clearly explained in the 54th chapter with the same title " All the beautiful Daughters of Mara", in which Anand, the hero, tells us the story of his previous births, where he visualizes the past and present where his unfulfilled desire for eternal love accentuates with unending lust for life, get freely expressed.
The myth of "All the beautiful Daughters of Mara" existing parallel to his own span of life, of which only present is visible and the rest of the episodes in his previous births, Anand experiences as and when he encounters them.
The overall development of this novel could only be examined with the help of a "Tantrik-based parody", where not only the sequence of Janma-Janmantra is added for an additional fervor, exposing the hero's passion and lust through and through but also his predicament of being a helpless victim in the hands of mystic destiny.
The author has picked up an apparently mystic theme. Unconsciously, as he has inherited the tradition of religion, Indian mythology and Tantra from his ancestors, but the beauty of the work lies in the fact of a secular approach to life omitting the bondages of caste and creed. In this background, this work of fiction becomes para-modern!
The libidinal instinct of Anand in his present and previous births, attaches with himself a number of voluptuous women belonging to various ethnic backgrounds. Tantra, as a distinctive sect of Hindu worship tradition, has very significant role of "Panch-Makars" and, therefore, the Omni-presence of women around the hero is the internal necessity of the theme, which results into many neo-vam-margi experience. This is, thus, a novel-departure in the field of contemporary Indian English writing.
The novelist has very aptly casted valid comment on the degeneration of present political scenario by elevating the police -shooter, an encounter-specialist to the supreme office of the President. (this is just like The then President of Pakistan General Parvez Musharraf (Who started his career as an ordinary military commando) These are not mere fiction fantasies but all around us, we find such absurdities taking shape !
The sub-titles attributed to 58 chapters lucidly establish the internal consistency of unbelievable episodes full of love, lust and crime, tied with an unseen threads of births and rebirths.
Naturally such a theme has interminable prospective of constructing stories -interesting and unending, of which Ashok Aatreya, as a fiction writer, has all the potential.
The myth of "All the beautiful Daughters of Mara" existing parallel to his own span of life, of which only present is visible and the rest of the episodes in his previous births, Anand experiences as and when he encounters them.
The overall development of this novel could only be examined with the help of a "Tantrik-based parody", where not only the sequence of Janma-Janmantra is added for an additional fervor, exposing the hero's passion and lust through and through but also his predicament of being a helpless victim in the hands of mystic destiny.
The author has picked up an apparently mystic theme. Unconsciously, as he has inherited the tradition of religion, Indian mythology and Tantra from his ancestors, but the beauty of the work lies in the fact of a secular approach to life omitting the bondages of caste and creed. In this background, this work of fiction becomes para-modern!
The libidinal instinct of Anand in his present and previous births, attaches with himself a number of voluptuous women belonging to various ethnic backgrounds. Tantra, as a distinctive sect of Hindu worship tradition, has very significant role of "Panch-Makars" and, therefore, the Omni-presence of women around the hero is the internal necessity of the theme, which results into many neo-vam-margi experience. This is, thus, a novel-departure in the field of contemporary Indian English writing.
The novelist has very aptly casted valid comment on the degeneration of present political scenario by elevating the police -shooter, an encounter-specialist to the supreme office of the President. (this is just like The then President of Pakistan General Parvez Musharraf (Who started his career as an ordinary military commando) These are not mere fiction fantasies but all around us, we find such absurdities taking shape !
The sub-titles attributed to 58 chapters lucidly establish the internal consistency of unbelievable episodes full of love, lust and crime, tied with an unseen threads of births and rebirths.
Naturally such a theme has interminable prospective of constructing stories -interesting and unending, of which Ashok Aatreya, as a fiction writer, has all the potential.
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the clothes that covered her.Turning this way or thatway she moved in the room occassionally gazing into the mirror.
Anand was puzzled by all this.It was a sort of new metamorphosis in her life and for the first time not a good experience for Anand since he never thought of such a low level of inclination and lust before on part of Divine, who had been in touch with Anand for a very long time.Any way, since Anand also knew his own weakness of sex, he didn’t bother about the newly developed relationship of Divine with any Tom, Dick and Harry…..! No…he immediately gave his mind second thought….. All this all will not make any difference and will not affect his relationship with Divine.
For the first time in their long relations they had very long but almost silece sitting…as if from both the sides nothing was left to be told. There remained no need of any sort of explanation or excuse from any side.The things moved in their own way and life took shaped was self explainatory.What was the need to think about that again and again…Their closeness and at the same time their distance was to be understoodin relative terms also.So far Anand and Divine both have been observing and understanding their lives with different angles… the raods were zig-zag some times meeting some times going apart as if there was no relation between them and that was life!Rather it’s very nature with those who are in love (?)…It is always advised that dignity without bitterness is the best way to be in intimacy in life.
Yet It was an immature but cowrdice but inarticulate behaviour on part of Mr charan to have left Divine when he heard of his visit…but that was a reality of life also…for keeping dignity of both, rather all three of them,he left the place….and after all he was still a member of Parliament !
And realistic approach kept him in Divine’s touch.In another occasion he visited Kota again…and it was a different meeting.
45/LIVING MIRACLE ON EARTH
Anand the encounter specialist was in the holiday mood. He again thought of opening a new accont with Devine.Actually he became frustrated in the last meeting in Kota so he took one-week leave from his official duty and wanted to enjoy discussions on poetry and arts with Divine again. She was promoted as Dy. Registrar in the Kota Open University and he was in Bombay. Before leaving the most happening wonderful world of Mumbai, where he was posted for a week, he phoned Divine that he was coming to Kota for refreshing himself for two-to-three days and would like to visit a strange place very close to Kota city famous for a living miracle on earth, (as he heard of him but never believed till now) known as Vani Pandit (the seer and orator predictorof anything on earth, past, present or future). He told her that the details of the Pandit he would tell later when he reached there.
It was raining heavily that day, in the morning when all three of them started for Badod by a private taxi. The conversation between them was quite interesting and full of ideas.
The V.C. of Open University Mr. Sharma was also curious about the so called Vani Pandit and hence he came along with them. It was also because of his academic and intellectual background and being a good friend of Anand’s girl friend his company was worth sharing.
‘Don’t you feel, what I’ve known about Vani Pandit through Miss Divine, may be not factual and our going there may not satisfy our purpose- Asked V.C, pointing his preliminary doubt about Badod visit.
‘Well I’m not very much doubtful since I had shared the experience with our Chief Army Commander Mr. Joshi, who had visited Badod and was quite convinced with the miraculous powers possessed by Pandit Gowardhan Sharma who is quite known among higher elite as-well-as common people living in the village.’ …Anand replied V.C..
‘But whatever we have heard is beyond any intelligence and can be doubted by anybody…
It is still interesting to explore all this’. Miss Divine Fernandes said.
‘I feel, the human faculty has limitless possibilities to go beyond and beyond and miracles definitely prove this… Anand was almost certain about the Vani Pandit and what Mr. Joshi told him few months before was going to be the reality for him and his two friends who were accompanying him’.
Badod was a sleeping town and after heavy rainfall, now a pleasure of drizzling! There was a play of sunlight and clouds moving very fast in blue background sky. Very few persons were visible here and there and the settlement was seemingly on the right side of the road. A small street between the Pucca single storied houses was seen when all three of the visitors came out of the car. An adolescent girl just crossed them and Anand enquired about Gowerdhan Sharma’s house. The girl responded fast and pointed her finger towards the same street which was visible to them for reaching Vani Pandit house.
The street was blind at a very little distance and in the left side of the row houses an unassuming person was seen sitting there. He was a middle aged man enjoying beedi (Local smocking). He was purely a village man, not shaven for two-three days and his face was mixed light black. He was wearing a small piece of Dhoti and Gandhi Kurti only his legs were not truly bony but looking feeble. By this time all these three persons – one being a senior police officer, the other an intellectual – artist and young bureaucrat and the third one again a highly placed person known as V.C. of Kota Open University were approaching closely towards the person sitting on the legs like white Crane with black long nose and elongated face. ‘Can you tell us, where Mr. Gowerdhan Sharma lives?’ Enquire Anand from the sitting man.
‘Hukam, I’m Gowerdhan…, please tell me what service I’ve to offer to you gentlemen?’ Very politely Vani Pandit replied.
‘We have heard very high of you and your miracles, we want to take some part of your valuable time’
‘Yes, please come with me’. and he just stood, turned left, gone few steps ahead and further turned left in the small court yard of a very small house and without any hesitation and formality told them to sit on the left side of the entrance, erected for seating made of simple stone slabs. On the opposite side Goverdhan Sharma, Vani Pandit took his position and asked all three of them if they had any problem! Anand decided not to talk in beginning and requested the V.C. to know the realities… ‘Well, we have come here not with any problems but I am particularly interested in knowing something about the special faculty you possess I have heard about you that you can answer any question of any background and I will be very happy if you can very kindly reflect upon the meaning of religion in context of Indian and Western Philosophy…! For giving replying to V.C.’s question, Vani Pandit (V.P.) brought a piece of an old newspaper just lying, on the right hand side of his seat and put it before his eyes, as if he was going to read something printed on it. He was holding the paper by both his hands and started reading the text abruptly…
“The meaning of religion which is known as Dharma in India is different in the Western Philosophy. The sun is the highest and the biggest beholder of religion who in constant penance and austerity and devotion…there is no day and light for sun who is the preserver of the entire universe...! The Religion is reason…Duty and obligations and dharma totality in our country… In the west it's a belief and particular system of faith.
It was really surprising and to to their great satisfaction, all the answers of any type of their enquiry were just ready-made there and Vani Pandit was very quick to speak, whatever he was seeing on the printed sheet of newspaper, he was reading and on that basis he would express himself. It was a miracle and in their life time they had not yet seen or heard of such a miracle. Vani Pandit was half-literate and in reality could not even read and write much. But when he used Sanskrit stanzas and contexts from Kabir, Tulsi, Meera and even quoted Urdu poetry for supporting his versions, ideas and thought of well known epics...that went beyond anybody’s imagination… V.P. was truly a miracle on earth. He replied all questions of science, politics, literature, theater and even future predictions of existing political parties of this country even about spreading of Aids and its dangers on the global scale. Besides so many other interesting things V.P. also told them about their old age-connections and previous birth stories which was full of excitement according to him…Before this birth they all three were in the employment in the house of Kuber… the lady Registrar was a milk maid and Anand was the In-charge of the biggest Dairy Farm of heaven under the kingdom of the Indra… the present V.C. was holding an important portfolio in the kingdom of the heaven … because of some miss happening and irregularities all three of them were expelled out of the heaven and taken birth on earth as humans as they are today. V.P. also told Anand that this is his 32nd birth on earth again as human because of his partial but true religious commitments and before that he has lived so many lives of different creatures also.
Vani Pandit answered Anand's many other questions, particularly about the distinct characterstics of Shaheen, Sonal and Bhairvi and their special role behavior in his past present and future life.
Anand never thought of his previous births before and since he was not very much seroius about his last birth he was keen on contemplating new ideas through these fantasies. There were definitely certain hidden facts.
Anand’s first birth was in some ancient city famous for business and the name of city was Kanchanpur where he was born as a son of a businessman. The entrance of the house was always crowded by people from different walks of life, since everyone wanted the blessing of his father. His father had the direct access to the king of that time and was a very rich and privileged man having all comforts.
Decorative elephants, horse, camel and palanquins carved with silver & gold were at his doorstep. Anand was growing like full moon and had the unparallel handsome face and strong built body un-matching to anybody on earth.
His name was Chandra Bhan who was perhaps waiting for some mis -happening in his life. It so happened that the court-dancer of Haven, Rambha fell in love with him and managed to meet him in some beautiful garden.
The love was endless and both of them were enjoying the life on earth… but there was something else cooking in the mind of Rambha, who had also thought suddenly about her exciting time in heaven. She wanted to dance in the court of Lord Indra again from where she came here and fell in love with Chandra Bhan… her state of mind was in confusion because she also didn't’ want to lose the company of his lover… she made Chandra Bhan a black bee… and put him under her bra.
The dance of Rambha in the court of lord Indra was in full swing and she was so excited that she did not know when she fell down… she was sweating badly and her falling down in the middle of dance
Anand was puzzled by all this.It was a sort of new metamorphosis in her life and for the first time not a good experience for Anand since he never thought of such a low level of inclination and lust before on part of Divine, who had been in touch with Anand for a very long time.Any way, since Anand also knew his own weakness of sex, he didn’t bother about the newly developed relationship of Divine with any Tom, Dick and Harry…..! No…he immediately gave his mind second thought….. All this all will not make any difference and will not affect his relationship with Divine.
For the first time in their long relations they had very long but almost silece sitting…as if from both the sides nothing was left to be told. There remained no need of any sort of explanation or excuse from any side.The things moved in their own way and life took shaped was self explainatory.What was the need to think about that again and again…Their closeness and at the same time their distance was to be understoodin relative terms also.So far Anand and Divine both have been observing and understanding their lives with different angles… the raods were zig-zag some times meeting some times going apart as if there was no relation between them and that was life!Rather it’s very nature with those who are in love (?)…It is always advised that dignity without bitterness is the best way to be in intimacy in life.
Yet It was an immature but cowrdice but inarticulate behaviour on part of Mr charan to have left Divine when he heard of his visit…but that was a reality of life also…for keeping dignity of both, rather all three of them,he left the place….and after all he was still a member of Parliament !
And realistic approach kept him in Divine’s touch.In another occasion he visited Kota again…and it was a different meeting.
45/LIVING MIRACLE ON EARTH
Anand the encounter specialist was in the holiday mood. He again thought of opening a new accont with Devine.Actually he became frustrated in the last meeting in Kota so he took one-week leave from his official duty and wanted to enjoy discussions on poetry and arts with Divine again. She was promoted as Dy. Registrar in the Kota Open University and he was in Bombay. Before leaving the most happening wonderful world of Mumbai, where he was posted for a week, he phoned Divine that he was coming to Kota for refreshing himself for two-to-three days and would like to visit a strange place very close to Kota city famous for a living miracle on earth, (as he heard of him but never believed till now) known as Vani Pandit (the seer and orator predictorof anything on earth, past, present or future). He told her that the details of the Pandit he would tell later when he reached there.
It was raining heavily that day, in the morning when all three of them started for Badod by a private taxi. The conversation between them was quite interesting and full of ideas.
The V.C. of Open University Mr. Sharma was also curious about the so called Vani Pandit and hence he came along with them. It was also because of his academic and intellectual background and being a good friend of Anand’s girl friend his company was worth sharing.
‘Don’t you feel, what I’ve known about Vani Pandit through Miss Divine, may be not factual and our going there may not satisfy our purpose- Asked V.C, pointing his preliminary doubt about Badod visit.
‘Well I’m not very much doubtful since I had shared the experience with our Chief Army Commander Mr. Joshi, who had visited Badod and was quite convinced with the miraculous powers possessed by Pandit Gowardhan Sharma who is quite known among higher elite as-well-as common people living in the village.’ …Anand replied V.C..
‘But whatever we have heard is beyond any intelligence and can be doubted by anybody…
It is still interesting to explore all this’. Miss Divine Fernandes said.
‘I feel, the human faculty has limitless possibilities to go beyond and beyond and miracles definitely prove this… Anand was almost certain about the Vani Pandit and what Mr. Joshi told him few months before was going to be the reality for him and his two friends who were accompanying him’.
Badod was a sleeping town and after heavy rainfall, now a pleasure of drizzling! There was a play of sunlight and clouds moving very fast in blue background sky. Very few persons were visible here and there and the settlement was seemingly on the right side of the road. A small street between the Pucca single storied houses was seen when all three of the visitors came out of the car. An adolescent girl just crossed them and Anand enquired about Gowerdhan Sharma’s house. The girl responded fast and pointed her finger towards the same street which was visible to them for reaching Vani Pandit house.
The street was blind at a very little distance and in the left side of the row houses an unassuming person was seen sitting there. He was a middle aged man enjoying beedi (Local smocking). He was purely a village man, not shaven for two-three days and his face was mixed light black. He was wearing a small piece of Dhoti and Gandhi Kurti only his legs were not truly bony but looking feeble. By this time all these three persons – one being a senior police officer, the other an intellectual – artist and young bureaucrat and the third one again a highly placed person known as V.C. of Kota Open University were approaching closely towards the person sitting on the legs like white Crane with black long nose and elongated face. ‘Can you tell us, where Mr. Gowerdhan Sharma lives?’ Enquire Anand from the sitting man.
‘Hukam, I’m Gowerdhan…, please tell me what service I’ve to offer to you gentlemen?’ Very politely Vani Pandit replied.
‘We have heard very high of you and your miracles, we want to take some part of your valuable time’
‘Yes, please come with me’. and he just stood, turned left, gone few steps ahead and further turned left in the small court yard of a very small house and without any hesitation and formality told them to sit on the left side of the entrance, erected for seating made of simple stone slabs. On the opposite side Goverdhan Sharma, Vani Pandit took his position and asked all three of them if they had any problem! Anand decided not to talk in beginning and requested the V.C. to know the realities… ‘Well, we have come here not with any problems but I am particularly interested in knowing something about the special faculty you possess I have heard about you that you can answer any question of any background and I will be very happy if you can very kindly reflect upon the meaning of religion in context of Indian and Western Philosophy…! For giving replying to V.C.’s question, Vani Pandit (V.P.) brought a piece of an old newspaper just lying, on the right hand side of his seat and put it before his eyes, as if he was going to read something printed on it. He was holding the paper by both his hands and started reading the text abruptly…
“The meaning of religion which is known as Dharma in India is different in the Western Philosophy. The sun is the highest and the biggest beholder of religion who in constant penance and austerity and devotion…there is no day and light for sun who is the preserver of the entire universe...! The Religion is reason…Duty and obligations and dharma totality in our country… In the west it's a belief and particular system of faith.
It was really surprising and to to their great satisfaction, all the answers of any type of their enquiry were just ready-made there and Vani Pandit was very quick to speak, whatever he was seeing on the printed sheet of newspaper, he was reading and on that basis he would express himself. It was a miracle and in their life time they had not yet seen or heard of such a miracle. Vani Pandit was half-literate and in reality could not even read and write much. But when he used Sanskrit stanzas and contexts from Kabir, Tulsi, Meera and even quoted Urdu poetry for supporting his versions, ideas and thought of well known epics...that went beyond anybody’s imagination… V.P. was truly a miracle on earth. He replied all questions of science, politics, literature, theater and even future predictions of existing political parties of this country even about spreading of Aids and its dangers on the global scale. Besides so many other interesting things V.P. also told them about their old age-connections and previous birth stories which was full of excitement according to him…Before this birth they all three were in the employment in the house of Kuber… the lady Registrar was a milk maid and Anand was the In-charge of the biggest Dairy Farm of heaven under the kingdom of the Indra… the present V.C. was holding an important portfolio in the kingdom of the heaven … because of some miss happening and irregularities all three of them were expelled out of the heaven and taken birth on earth as humans as they are today. V.P. also told Anand that this is his 32nd birth on earth again as human because of his partial but true religious commitments and before that he has lived so many lives of different creatures also.
Vani Pandit answered Anand's many other questions, particularly about the distinct characterstics of Shaheen, Sonal and Bhairvi and their special role behavior in his past present and future life.
Anand never thought of his previous births before and since he was not very much seroius about his last birth he was keen on contemplating new ideas through these fantasies. There were definitely certain hidden facts.
Anand’s first birth was in some ancient city famous for business and the name of city was Kanchanpur where he was born as a son of a businessman. The entrance of the house was always crowded by people from different walks of life, since everyone wanted the blessing of his father. His father had the direct access to the king of that time and was a very rich and privileged man having all comforts.
Decorative elephants, horse, camel and palanquins carved with silver & gold were at his doorstep. Anand was growing like full moon and had the unparallel handsome face and strong built body un-matching to anybody on earth.
His name was Chandra Bhan who was perhaps waiting for some mis -happening in his life. It so happened that the court-dancer of Haven, Rambha fell in love with him and managed to meet him in some beautiful garden.
The love was endless and both of them were enjoying the life on earth… but there was something else cooking in the mind of Rambha, who had also thought suddenly about her exciting time in heaven. She wanted to dance in the court of Lord Indra again from where she came here and fell in love with Chandra Bhan… her state of mind was in confusion because she also didn't’ want to lose the company of his lover… she made Chandra Bhan a black bee… and put him under her bra.
The dance of Rambha in the court of lord Indra was in full swing and she was so excited that she did not know when she fell down… she was sweating badly and her falling down in the middle of dance
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