Chapter 22 : mother kunti reaction
"The subjects who had been cheering 'Jai Jai Kaar' at the king's signal all suddenly fell silent."
I took an oath to protect you sir as your king, I am not your king but a servant, I try to fulfill all your needs...
Some time passed, and the king's speech hadn't ended yet, and these stupid citizens were listening intently. I could clearly see the devotioness in their eyes.
I knew that this devotion was due to the slavery they had been living in for so many years. And the blind faith of their parents for their king .
They themselves become slaves and do not even spare their children. In their minds, they used to say good things about the king, due to which in the minds of the children, their king is considered no less than God.
Let me tell you an example, in the original Mahabharata story, there was only one Karn who questioned his low caste.
If someone starts asking questions, the society cannot tolerate it, in this first of all your parents will stand against you.
The same thing happened with Original Karna who went beyond his caste and did something that no one had ever dared to do.
Karan came from the charioteer caste, but we all know that Karan was Suryadev's son and his mother was Kunti. Therefore, Karan came from a royal family.
But his mother abandoned him, Karn was adopted by the Sarthi family, who, as they had no son, considered him a boon given to them by God.
Because of this, Karna became known as the Sarthi caste. Everyone knows that in this era, the Sarthi caste belonged to a lower caste.
The charioteer caste should only move the chariot and obey every order of the caste above them, which has always been the case in this era.
This caste was clearly forbidden from ever taking up arms.
But Karna broke this rule, he picked up Dhanush.
He took Parashurama as his guru and learned all the archery skills from him. But when Karan returned to Hastinapur and displayed his archery skills in front of everyone, they cursed him, calling him the son of a charioteer.
That sir started telling Karn that you are not worthy of this, you come from a lower caste, and said many other things also.
Karn was silently enduring all this bitterness, his father came out from among those people, Karan was hopeful that his father would support him, but nothing like that happened. His father asked him to apologize to everyone and go back home.
This is what happens in slavery, at that time Karan was no less powerful than any warrior, with his power Karan could prove his worth in front of everyone.
But in Karn's father's view, his son shouldn't have achieved this. He should have accepted the fate of a charioteer like him.
This is a sign of slavery, if he wanted he could have even given his son along. But this very slavery did not allow him to do this. It did not allow him to see her in a different way.
Whenever I used to watch on TV, Karn was about to do something, but his father would come and advise him not to do it, due to which Karan would become helpless.
I used to get most angry about this thing, especially on Karn's father, his father knew that Karn was not his son, he belonged to some other caste, which was much higher than his caste.
But he would come back every now and then to remind him that Karn was the charioteer's son. No one else had reminded him of Karan's son as much as his father had.
I did not think much about it and started waiting for the competition to happen.
"That's all I had to say for today, After this the competition will start soon.
He finished his speech and went and sat on the throne placed there. After he sat down, the rest of the people came one by one, first his wife, Queen Ghandari of Hastinapur,
then Ghandari's brother Sakuni, then Bhishma, Minister Bidur, Kunti and some special people came.
He went and sat on the seats that were reserved for him.
I saw my mother Kunti for the first time. I woke up a day after my birth and could not see my mother. Now I saw her for the first time from that distance.
I don't hold any resentment towards him for abandoning me. But that doesn't mean I have any love for him.
Mother Kunti, who was sitting on her seat, had recovered from the grief of losing her husband and had decided to live for her five sons.
She had come to see her five sons perform. Then she realized someone was watching her.
All the people were sitting on the stadium seats and watching the royal family, so it was not a big deal for anyone to see them.
But Kunti felt something different in this sight, something familiar, someone close to her, but apart from this, Kunti felt a very cold feeling which she had never felt with anyone before.
Mata Kunti decided to see who was watching her. She looked around the stadium, noticing several people one by one.
Finally, I went and saw a child who was looking at him with special feelings and was around 10 years old.
The child She noticed was me. I felt the gaze of my mother Kunti, I immediately looked down.
Please! Please! I wish he hadn't seen me... Hmm, how could he recognize me? It must have been 10 years since he last saw me, and he might have forgotten about me.I am just taking tension for nothing.
"At first, I was a little nervous, but soon I calmed myself and, thinking this, breathed a sigh of relief."
"On the other hand, contrary to my expectations, Mother Kunti had seen me."
What... he is my son... he is not Karn...
Mother Kunti was looking at me in disbelief. I wasn't paying attention to her anymore, so I didn't notice her look.
To be continued...