The master stared at Karthi, who was embarrassing himself and asked. "Did your friend told you to ask like this?"
He did not try to get rid of the sharpness of his vision. He said as he met the sight straight away. "Nobody has told me what I should do. Until I came here to see you, I never thought of asking you to be my guru. I felt like asking when I saw you. I asked. That's all. ”
His ordinary perceptions were not hampered except that he could not know his mind through the power of yoga. A good man like him cannot go on without blinking. He knew Karthi was not lying.
Yet he asked with a stern look on his face. "Why should I teach you anything?"
"For the same reason that your guru taught you," he said with a smile. "Knowledge must be shared. Only then will the debt be settled”
The master could not help but smiled. If he had not been the dice of enemy he would have hugged and celebrated him today.
Suresh, who was watching the discussion, looked on in amazement. No one he knew had ever spoken to a master like this in such a way. No one dared to speak. Suresh thought that there was humility in the speech even though Karthi was still on his knees and his hands were holding the master's legs. The master smiled instead of getting angry and he was stunned.
The Master remembered his first meeting with Guru. He had spoken disrespectfully and mockingly to the Guru. He had disrespected the monks. He could not have been a master today if the Guru had not forcibly taken with him a young man named Ramana regardless of all those words. He would have been one of the many men who would have disappeared without a trace.
His conscience told him loudly that not even one of them had reached the heights of Karthi, even though his mouth was saying, "I've taught to a lot of people and settled my debt."
"Won't you teach me then?" He looked at him and asked with minor regret.
He could not see that regret. He could not bear to look at his face and firmly deny it. What would he answer if he asked the next question why? Is it your 'friend' who killed my guru? Is that the right answer? Certainly he would not have known how his guru had died. If he had known, he would not have called him a 'friend'. He is good to him. The one who saved his life. What he will do if the enemy had trapped him skillfully? When the fate already decided 'the alien force is going to use someone as his puppet who is pure, and supreme in his knowledge?’ Will he be able to act differently against the fate?
The master's voice softened. "Then why not drop out of IIT?"
Karthi said. "I will not drop out. I could not become a disciple of the gurukula system of the ancient time. I will go to college and study with you. But I will study with all my heart genuinely. I will be a good student. ”
The master looked at him for a few seconds. Denying a student like him would be a disgrace to the knowledge he has learned. Fate is stronger. The two had met each other. He is not completely mesmerized by the enemy. He has the opportunity to raise the good in him. In thinking this way the confusion was removed.
Told him. “The art you want to study requires a lot of restraint and discipline. It is not a game”
He remembered Harini the moment he was about to agree. For the first time he saw a reluctance on his face. Slowly he told the master. "I am in love with a girl,"
The manner in which Karthi spoke hesitantly and shyly for the first time, who spoke firmly and clearly till then made the master to smile. Said softly. "Love is not a problem until it becomes a full-time job and does not cause distractions during the training. The sages of that time who were at the peak of this art were the ones who got married and had children”
With huge burden removed from his heart, he looked at master thankfully. Then he asked, "When can we start, Master?"
The master said, “There are some good times to start studying the arts like this. I will look at it and tell you later. To read all this, the time before Brahma Mukurtham, that is, before sunrise, is good. Can you come every day at same time? ”
"Master, is it okay to come before four in the morning every day?" Karthi asked passionately.
None of the disciples said with such an eagerness to come to study in such an early morning. He nodded. He bowed and got up to say, "Thank you, Master."
Suresh, who was watching all this, could not recover from the shock. How fast Karthi caught the master in his web of deception on the first encounter.
Uday finished his talking on the phone and came fast.
“Sorry Swami. A political issue. I cannot talk to you soon ”
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The mysterious man was bored waiting on the way to Karthi’s home. He did not like Karthi being with Master for so long. Master was seeing Karthi as an enemy and his suspicion and hatred increased when he could not know his mind by his yoga power. That, he predicted, would shorten the length of their meeting. But as time began to lengthen slowly the mind felt something paradoxical.
The mind of Karthi, which cannot be read by the master, can be read by him and know the full details immediately with his supreme powers. Then he will decide the next step. The only problem is if he can't. Nothing can be determined without Karthi coming.
Uday's car was seen coming in the distance when the suspicion began to arise in his mind that Uday might have gone somewhere with Karthi. The relieved mystery man mentally concentrated all his energies and stood ready.