Vardaan 1...The Ultimate Boon

Chapter 21: This Is My Friend (Part 2)

Before Jagdeesh could tell Rasik that it was the reason why I was stopping you from asking, Dev again turned Rasik's neck towards him.

"My dear friend, Dev is not there, I am here. I asked angrily why I should send my wife to her old house. So they send a reply that their great pundit Ji says that the next month and a half is inauspicious, and the bride and groom should not stay together. What is auspicious and what is inauspicious for the student of Uttarasaadhaka Gurukul, this was my mistake. Neither my wife studied in Uttarasaadhaka Gurukul, nor did my family nor did my wife's family. The ignorant people together did such wretched things that even I got scared. My wife went back to her maternal home. Don't look there; look here, after that only I know how I spend the inauspicious period of a month and a half, in three months. My idiot in-laws were not ready to send their daughter. I said that you have got the girl married, now at least send her. But every day they used to make some stupid excuse. I, the ex-meritorious student of Uttarasaadhaka Gurukul, once again pleaded to that pundit and with great difficulty got an auspicious time to bring your sister-in-law back. I was waiting for the letter from my in-law's house as a doorman outside my house..." Dev was Saying Rasik wanted to turn his neck again.

That time Dev caught hold of his neck with his hands and kept holding it.

"You know, friend Rasik, I did not get the letter from my in-laws, instead your messenger came and told me that Rasikananda ji has just called, there is a big problem," Dev said everything in one breath.

By now the badly frightened Rasik had confined himself.

"I strangled my desires and went immediately, fulfilling the duty of friendship. When I come here, what do I see that the name of Rasikananda ji's biggest problem is Rasikananda ji himself... Oh! Wicked, how can we tell what you want? You call yourself such a great scientist and you don't understand what we need, either our Prudence knows it or our conscience knows it. Even then both of us have been trying to remove the stone lying on your thick intellect for three days, but you are not understanding even after understanding. And now Rasikananda ji wants to know what happened to Dev after marriage. Should I tell you what has happened to me?" Dev shouted.

Hearing Dev's roar, Rasik's family members came running to his room. They saw that both of Rasik's friends were very tense and Rasik was sitting calmly.

"Hey, I am telling you to get him exorcised by a proven tantric. He had made our life difficult. Now he is after our innocent guests.' said the distressed mother crying.

Rasik felt very bad, but he was helpless too.

"Dev, I will do whatever you say now," Rasik said firmly.

"You will back down," Dev said angrily.

Rasik gestured with his hand near his head as if he had imprisoned his mind in his fist. Then he went to the window and pretended as if he had thrown his mind away.

"Now you are convinced?" Rasik asked firmly.

"After being a scientist, you have also become an actor," came out from the mouth of a perplexed Dev.

Rasik stared at him. Then Jagdeesh came forward and took care of Dev.

Dev calms himself down watching Rasik's body language. Then Dev-Jagdeesh sent Rasik and meditated deeply in solitude.

"Leave your rope in the hands of Mother Nature. Whatever the first offer comes to you, you will accept it. See, we fall in love with inanimate objects too, so if not today then tomorrow you will definitely fall in love with that girl. If it is a matter of virtues or demerits, Mother Nature has made you a scientist. You will fill that girl with virtues by making her practice. That's why throw away the bundle of all worries. Whatever first offer comes to you, you should accept it." Dev said seriously.

Dev had thought that Rasik would at least say something silly. But Rasik only said 'Tathaastu'.

"Come on now," said Rasik.

"Where?" Jagdeesh asked.

"Where else we can go, we are going to get sister-in-law... I felt that we did not give enough time to Dev's in-laws, so they failed to give us the best hospitality they wanted to give us. So now we will give them a second chance. Now we will go there and lie there till they sadly send us off along with our sister-in-law." Rasik said seriously.

At first, Dev was very happy to hear that, but in a short while he remembered something. Something which was called 'son-in-law's dignity'.

"But..."

"...if you get entangled in the affair of ifs and buts, you will remain a bachelor even after being married for the rest of your life. Habits my Friend, Habits... These are the habits that make the thinking mind of a human being its slave. If you do not correct the habits of your in-laws now, then this will continue for the rest of your life. So put the shame of living in the in-laws' house on the stove and pretend to be top-rated brazen." Rasik advised, interrupting Dev.

Hearing everything, Dev looked at Jagdeesh.

Jagdeesh thought for a while and said yes. He had thought that both of them would go, but they forcibly took Jagdeesh along with them to create additional pressure on the in-laws.

Rasik's plan worked. After serving Jamai Babu (son-in-law) and his friends in just fifteen days, the in-laws gave up. But the Jamai Babu was not even taking the name of leaving. Dev annoyed them so much that they would not even call their daughter the next time they met her in the market.

Dev's wife was not able to understand whether she should be happy thinking about her husband's love or be sad seeing the condition of her family members. She asked her husband to go to their home, but Dev showed his helplessness in front of the wishes of his friends.