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Me: Do you know how many faces a coin does have? – asking to Radha.

Radha: That’s a simple question, 2 faces.

Me: No! It’s not.

Radha: How?

Me: Hmm… It is difficult to explain via this, but let me take you to journey of Light and Dark. You will understand then.

Radha: You want me to open the curtain and let the light came inside. Is that the meaning of Light and Dark?

Me: Very funny! It’s not about sun light (Day or Night), but about the light and the dark which remain inside us. We all are seeking of light in our life and wants to get ourselves away from the darkness. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry – all forms of fear are caused by too much future. Guilt, resentment, sadness, bitterness, regret, grievances and all forms of no forgiveness that causes troubles in our life are the reasons we captured by darkness. When you get angry you can see most of time blank and dark inside your mind. Angeris first reason of darkness inside you that can be seen easily. Actually there is no end of how to describe dark but the major fact is negative traits of life has been caused by the darkness.

Radha: What is Light then?

Me: Happiness, peace, tranquillity and when you feel salvationand no more worries inside you. That means you are inside light. You create things this time; in sort you see the things as humanity perspective. Okay now listen keep quietly the story I’m narrating now, it’s my childhood story and very fond of this. Ask the question at the end.

************************************************Story Narration***********************************************

Face one of coin: Andher Nagari Chaupat Raja (Dark is the Nation and Insane the King)

Once a Guru (Teacher) and his Chela (a Disciple) were travelling around and reaches in a kingdom. Guru decides to stay beneath a tree outside the kingdom and tell his Chela to purchase and bring some food for night.  He gives him few bucks for this and lay beneath the tree. The Chela left him and next enters inside the kingdom. He chose the first food stall and asked price for the spinach.

Chela: What is the price for spinach?

Shop Keeper: Takeh Sher! (let’s assume 1 penny).

Chela: What? That is very cheap!

Chela: What is the price for Dates?

Shop Keeper: Takeh Sher!

Chela: Huh? What’s that mean?

Shop Keeper: In this kingdom everything is for fixed price if you want can check other food stall as well but you will pays a Takeh Sher. Not even food but everything you can purchase for same price Takeh Sher.

Chela: What is the name of this kingdom?

Shop Keeper: Andher Nagari (Dark Nation)

Chela: What is the name of the King?

Shop Keeper: Chaupat Raja (Insane King)

Chela: Hmm! (That’s very good, looks like I’m on the advantage who cares if everything is so cheap, he thinks inside his mind.)

He bought lots of foods and few more items as now he can afford luxurious things and return back to his teacher outside the kingdom. When teacher see that is lots of food and other things as he only gives him lesser money for all this, enthusiastically he asked all the details whatever happens in the city.

Guru: Quickly pack all the belongings, we immediately need to leave this kingdom.

Chela: What? Why? Guruji!

Guru: Do not question right now. Every moment is precious to be risk here.

Chela: But we are hungry since a week and now we find good food in so cheap price. I do not want to leave now let’s stay here at least for a week and enjoy all luxury which we missed all the time.

Guru: Hmm! So, temptation cursed you. Okay! I’m leaving now and you stay but let me teach you a summoning spell. By this you can summon me anytime when you are in a trouble. Adios!

Chela suddenly feels himself in utter freedom and can live lavishly now. He eats well and sleeps beneath the tree.

In this strange land, that night four brothers plan a burglary and try to breach the wall of the house of an affluent family. The bungling incompetent thieves bring the wall down, but in this process caught by the king’s sentries as the wall’s brick fall down over them and presented in front of the king.

King: How did you get all these wounds and caught by the sentries? If you have been found guilty, get ready for death sentence.

Thief Brothers: O Merciful King! The wall bricks fall down over us and we get these wounds. We were only following our profession and the inappropriate constructed wall caused the demise, for which the homeowner is liable.

King: Oh! You can’t be guilty for this, summon the homeowner.

Homeowner(frightened and frazzled):   O Generous King Lord! Those who constructed the wall are guilty party and thus please exonerate me.

King: Oh! You can’t be guilty for this, summon the wall constructor.

Wall Constructor: O Priest King! According to me wall design was perfect it is fault of bricklayer who didn’t matched up the correct size of bricks.

King: Oh! You can’t be guilty for this, summon the Bricklayer.

Bricklayer: O Sky high King! It is not my fault as brick size perfect and strong, you can notice no brick breaks during this accident but the cement must have been of poor quality and then descends on the cement mixer who is accused of pouring too much water during mixing.

King: Oh! You can’t be guilty for this, summon the cement mixer.

Cement Mixer: O Earth greatest King! I admit this happens and too much water pours during mixing. But immediately that moment distracted by the Prayer of Mullah and that’s the reason of diluted the cement and it is mandatory for me to do greeting the lord.

King: Oh! You can’t be guilty for this, summon the Mullah.

The honest man has no excuse and the King pronounces death by hanging for the convicted till the death. The national legally prescribed fixed size noose is brought to the courtyard to string up the guilty offender. Whatever the fault of the Mullah, he is a decent god-fearing man who has refrained from indulging in sin, including gluttony. His neck is thin and his visage lean and his head and cranial capacity on the small side. The noose keeps slipping off his head and neck.

The irritated King then pontificates that the deaths must be punished as the justice demand and since the circumference of the noose is unalterable by the national religious code, the only way for justice to be done, is to hang the first person whom the noose fits by the morning.

Search has been started for whole night until they found the Chela sleeping in the morning beneath the tree and they measure his neck fits in the noose. He has to be hanged in the public square this morning as an example to the citizens and to emphasize that justice not only should be done, but it must also publicly seen to be done.

The King offered him to accomplish his final wish to be filled before hanging. He pledge by this and demand to chant the prayer of his Guru (Teacher). The desperate chela quickly enchant the summoning spell and the guru promptly appeared at the public square, when he saw his chela in this position, he understood the whole story and appears near to him and whisper in this ears something.

Guru: No, I must be one who should hang to this moment.

Chela: No, I had been chose for this glory and amazing moment. It’s my right to be hanged.

The guru created a ruckus by insisting that he be hanged instead of the chela. The intrigued Executioner was taken aback at this strange self-destroying demand and even the Mullah suspected some theological mystery. They kept asking the guru for the reason and he refused. The irritated King then threatened him that if he refused he would be beheaded instead of being hanged. The guru pleaded that he must be hanged. Under further intimidation and duress, the guru confessed that on this day of the new moon, anyone who was hanged would go straight to heaven. By hearting this everyone started to demand to be hanged and controversial appeal starts. The Executioner, then insisted since he is the once who really going to execute them, he would decide who would be hanged. He decided he would hang himself. In the meantime the news had reached the king. He repaired to the scene and used his primate privilege to be hanged. The relieved guru and disciple promptly crossed the borders of the strange realm, vowing never to return again.

**************************************End of the Story***************************************

Radha: Hiya! Truth won again, happy ending! Well done!

Me: What is your conclusion of this story?

Radha: Light conquered the Darkness even it was tricky but ultimately light wins. King was really insane.

Me: Actually it is not always King’s Fault in this story, sometime it is around the peoples he hired to work. They are the major source of corruption and manipulate him this way that it shows everyone is happy in the Kingdom and he starts living the mirage of profit sharing. But it is short time profit at the end King will be doomed, if he don’t awake, sooner or later good people will start leaving the city. Meantime, all honest people gets hanged one by one because they don’t know how to use blame game theory.  

Also, the major fact of this story about the good teacher is the one who saved the disciple threaten life. A teacher is the source of lightness in everyone life, he is the most merciful even at first disciple refused to take advice of him. He understood the better way to teach him the lesson same time gave him precaution spell. It’s like he knows the all weakness and strength of him to the moment. Someday disciple has to leave the teacher but then he/she has the wisdom and knowledge which learned from him/her and always protect in the darkness. Look at this world and near about you, darkness and blame-game theory can easily haunt you. If you have knowledge of your teacher you may survive, so always respect your teacher first, even it seems to be annoying sometimes. Sometime you won’t agree to the moment but later you will understand the fact of whatever told you based on experiences and by knowing your weakness.

Knowledge, it is ultimate thing which saved us from the darkness when you learn this under the guidance of good teacher.

Radha: True! But it is about the good teacher, and up to finding good teacher. How if we influenced by the bad teacher?

Me: I showed you the one face of the coin, now let me show you the second face of coin. J

Face two of Coin: Donkey and the Carrot!

Radha: Hehe! Very funny, donkey looks so cute and happy and teacher looks so handsome, smart.

Me: Yes! That’s the teacher who wants to carry his luggage to other side of city and he is motivating the donkey to go further. A carrot dangling from a stick is motivating the donkey to pull the cart.

Radha: I thought this image symbolizes the motivation; it’s a carrot and a stick.

Me: Let me rephrase the symbols of every element in this picture. Handsome Man (A teacher), Carrot (knowledge and wisdom), Cart full of luggage (hidden motive which donkey never knows) and Donkey (A Disciple).

Radha: You are full of speculation and negative traits inside your mind. I would say darkness is inside of you. 

Me: I can’t help as you asked me how we can actually influenced by the bad teacher. That’s the truth of bad teaching when bad teacher motive ends he will give the carrot to feed the donkey. Donkey will be happy by this end of the reality. It’s the knowledge he gave to the disciple. But can you really think this knowledge will be used next day or later in this life. In reality if his motives don’t finishes yet he will not give the carrot to the donkey and use the same carrot all the time to greed the poor donkey.

Radha: Disgusting! It would be digest next day and just by the sheer moment, it will give him the pleasure. That cannot be knowledge.

Me: Yes! But poor donkey can never understand this. He will be happy by this and always ready to pull the cart next time to waiting for the immense pleasure. He will remains in the darkness all the time until one day he found to be useless by the teacher and throws away. It is actually the feeling and interests motivates us – What happens when the feelings evaporates? If we do something so that people will like us, appreciate, admire, affirm or praise us, what will we do when they don’t do that or worse when they criticize us? We hurt and now darkness start rising inside us and make us gloomy.

Radha: Horrible! Let skip this and show me the third face of coin. 

Third face of Coin: When toss the coin and its stand on the edge, neither it’s the head nor it is the tail.

Radha: Interesting! I never thought by this way.

Me: Let me first speak a dhoha then will start the explanation.

Pothi Padh Padh Kar Jag Mua, Pandit Bhayo Na Koye
Dhai Aakhar Prem Ke, Jo Padhe so Pandit Hoye.

                                                                     By Saint Kabir Das

Radha: Could you please translate this in English?

Me: Translation in English.

Reading books everyone died, none became any wise,
One who reads the word of Love, only becomes wise.

Radha: Hehe! Now you make me laugh and butterfly dancing inside my belly. You suddenly leave the books/knowledge and everything then you finds this topic to talk. Okay tell me how this can help us from darkness?

Me: When you are in true love, your heart surrounds by lightness and covered it all, the aura and glow changes of your body. Once the heart shines with this light, there cannot be a place for darkness inside. All the emotions of darkness can never cross your mind. Good things starts happening automatically around you and you mesmerised by the feelings, it seems to be miracle part.

Radha: Wow! Now I want to know the functionality of love.

Me: Let see this Human in love!

Radha: What the hell is this?

Me: This is love light and it is shining a human’s heart. Rest 1 to 6 are dark traits against the love and these traits always try to break the yellow aura around the heart which is actually trust. You can see that in this sequence they try to hit one by one. If somehow these traits are able to break the aura of trust, then it’s the end of love. Without trust there is no love. It’s all in the game of love. But if love is strong, you can’t be attack by the darkness of love.

Radha: Is this love theory works with other kinds of love?

Me: Of course! A mother finds the love in her children. Spouse finds the loves in each other arms. Brother and sister love. All relative loves are easy to explain because there is no place of darkness to be spread easily, trust stronger in this. But in the name of girl-friend – boy-friend love, which most of the time explain to be complicated and controversial because trust is easy to shatter anytime, there you can use this figure.

Never fall in love with a woman who sells herself. It always ends bad! - Moulin Rouge! (2001)

I admire this movie so much and help me to clear lots of doubt because it explains ‘Love is not blind’ always. You can wait for the right moment in your life by just controlling the desire and then darkness will never happens. The best thing in this world you will ever learn, in love and in return to be loved.

Find the light and stay away from the darkness always, find peace and tranquillity, to be wise enough, even it sound to be foolish. Best thing love yourself and soon you will see everyone loves you. You can love everyone and see the change; everyone will love you in return always. Love is light and light is strong energy which shows the path.

Radha: Why jealousy is in shadow?

Me: Because whenever you are in love, jealousy remains with you as like a shadow. Without jealousy you can’t feel love.

Radha: Hmmm… What now?

Me: I want to sing a song and finish the blog.

PS: Thank you everyone who help me to write this blog (Direct or Indirect) without your help it's not feasible to write this. :)