Vardaan 1...The Ultimate Boon

Chapter 10: The Uttarasaadhaka gurukul (Part 1)

Tejasraja, assuring aacharya Krishna Chandra Shastri, went straight to his friend Satvendera.

It was the same friend who had always criticized Tejasraja. Tejasraja knew that Satvendera was his only true friend. That was why he went to meet him with hope.

"Finally you have found a good job," Satvendera said happily.

Satvendera's happiness was pretty clear. As if he waited for it so long.

"It's not a job... it is cooperation. I simply want to help him." Tejasraja said.

Tejasraja was trying to clear his intentions so that his true friend didn't take it otherwise.

Satvendera smiled.

"Tejasraja, look from my point of view, you have caught the first good work... if you cross it, then your life will be successful. Yes, my dear friend, you are actually helping yourself." Saying Satvendera went inside.

The wise words of a true friend were deep. Tejasraja was smart enough to feel the depth of the words. He was filled with a new spirit. Within moments, Krishna Chandra's dream gurukul became the goal of Tejasraja's life. Just then he heard the noise.

Satvendera's wife was not so happy.

Satvendera came out with two bags. His wife was just behind him. She was crying badly.

"Some money and wasted jewelry...for the moment I just manage this only," Satvendera said.

After listening to that, Tejasraja understood the matter.

"No...no friend, I can't...."

"...Don't say a word further, or else our friendship will be in jeopardy," Satvendera said while interrupting Tejasraja.

Tejasraja became silent instantly as he did not want to risk his friendship with the only true friend he had.

That was the heaviest moment of Tejasraja's entire life. What should he do? What shouldn't? He couldn't understand anything.

"Tejasraja, my wife does not understand this. Please, you understand it. This money will help in grooming the lives of many children. We don't have children, if we had, wouldn't we have spent on them? Your sister-in-law loves ornaments more than children; perhaps that is why God kept us childless..."

Satvendera said it with great difficulty because he was trying hard to stop his tears.

Hearing that, Satvendera's wife suddenly stopped crying. Tejasraja saw the remorse in Satvendera's wife's eyes. He took both bags and left without saying anything.

That night both the husband and the wife kept on weeping and kept on erasing the distance between them. The wife apologized for her greedy behavior while the husband for his rude nature.

Tejasraja set out on a journey. He began to meet his acquaintances and the acquaintances of his acquaintances. Everyone supported him as much as possible.

It had been four months since Tejasraja was gone. Krishna Chandra felt that he had gone only after giving false assurances. He was completely unaware that Tejasraja was very close to achieving the highest goal of his life.

After a total of five months, Tejasraja reached his true friend again with several bullock carts.

"I started with you, so I have returned to thank you. My dear friend, all went well." Tejasraja said with great pleasure.

Tejasraja could feel the pride for himself in his friend's eyes.

"I believe that if anyone can do this, it is you," Satvendera said with pride.

Both hugged happily.

"If it started from here, then it will end from here too." The friend's wife said smiling without wearing any ornaments with a bundle in her hands.

Tejasraja instantly felt ashamed.

"I'm sorry sister-in-law... I have come to return your jewelry. The money has accumulated so much that your ornaments will no longer be needed." Tejasraja said without looking at her in shame.

"Brother-in-law, don't ask for forgiveness. Pleased with my husband's generosity, God has decided to give us the real jewel. Know the truth, now we don't need these useless ornaments." Satvendera's wife said with pure joy.

Tejasraja did not understand anything, he started looking at his friend in shame.

"Yes, it is a bit late, but I am glad that someone is coming who going to call you uncle," Satvendera said with wet eyes.

Tejasraja instantly started crying with joy. He was more than happy.

Satvendera and his wife were not so surprised by Tejasraja's gesture because they knew that a true friend like Tejasraja would be pleased to hear about the arrival of a new baby.

With a triumphant smile, Tejasraja returned to Krishna Chandra and told him everything.

Krishna Chandra could not believe that his dream was close to coming true. He was about to bow down in front of Tejasraja. Something came to his mind, so he stopped.

"My friend, grow my honor by hugging me," Krishna Chandra said.

It was the moment when Tejasraja felt that he had conquered the world. An extraordinary person wanted to hug him with respect. It was like a victory feast. Both hugged each other with pride as well as happiness.

Both happily started planning.

Ten days later they got a message. Some unknown person had called them, requesting to get special help. The two could not ignore it and left with the messenger.

After crossing many villages they came to a deserted place. Both were very surprised, but both kept walking. After walking some distance, they saw a dwelling house made of forest grass.

"Let's get something to escape from the sun, but who would have built a house in this deserted land?" Tejasraja said thinking.

The messenger was also moving towards the same house. As they got closer to that house, its size kept increasing. Some youths started appearing there. Aacharya Krishna Chandra gradually started to recognize them.

A young man full of sweat placed a bundle of grass on the ground.

"Keshava...Prince Keshava Kumara!" Tejasraja said in bewilderment and looked at Krishna Chandra, who was already failing to stop his tears of happiness coming with pride.

Tejasraja took a new look at that big house with the proud eyes of Krishna Chandra, then he started seeing a gurukul, which was made by Krishna Chandra's shishyas with their own hands.

"Gurudev, you are not a lamp, you are the sun. That is why your light should not be given to anyone but to the whole world," Keshava Kumara said while touching the feet of his aacharya.

"But how do you know..." Krishna Chandra could say only this.

The words were stuck in Krishna Chandra's mouth.