The next day when Karthi woke up he felt like the body was too light. The mind was very quiet without any thought flow. When he got out of bed it seemed like a very small amount of energy was needed for it. All these are new experiences for him. Made a list of everything he was going to do today and how he is going to handle each one. Today he is going to college. He is going to achieve what he has achieved at home and outside. Definitely he will achieve. The characteristics of the enemy came to mind. That faceless adversary became a role model for him in learning.
All his work began to happen at the same constant speed, as if every particle in the hourglass was hastily falling from the upper jar to the lower jar at the same constant speed. He was vigilant in everything. He did everything he had to do. But he did not stay in any moments unnecessarily. Living with a kind of rhythm is a new experience for him. But it happened that day.
He was the first person in college to see Akash. Akash was sitting on a cement bench staring somewhere like a machine. Karthi went to him and patted him on the shoulder and left with a smile on his face. Akash noticed something extra excitement with Karthi and was looking at him. Upon closer inspection Karthi seemed to have an extra pulse and something else attached. Day by day it seemed to Akash that Karthi was getting more and more of what he was losing little by little. He thought for a long time as to why God discriminates in his creation and did not find the answer.
Karthi looked at Harini in the distance. A small fear lurked inside him that something that had been withheld for so long would go away if it came to her. But it seemed that avoiding was not the same as acknowledging failure. She has always been an integral part of his life. She's going to be permanently intertwined with his life. It was understood that the reason he was afraid that something he had hitherto been able to resist so far would not be possible now was the thought that she would be teasing him. It seemed to him that there were always good times for it, and that sometimes she could understand that observance of control was not a sign of denial, but a sign of tolerance. If he is a drop of God, she is also a drop of God. She too is not inferior or out of control. She was saying something to the college attendant boy without noticing him. Karthi walked towards her naturally.
When she saw him, her face lit up and she turned to the boy and said something brief and nodded. She said as Karthi approached. “This guy have a arrear paper in his degree. He told me that he is not good with numbers. He failed in his attempts three times. He fears that he will have to remain the attendant till his last. Told him not to worry and pay the exam fees. I said it was my responsibility to make you pass”
Karthi smiled proudly. This is Harini!. Harini said as he looked at her and winked. "You look extra beautiful to my eyes today"
She is teasing him as expected. Karthi thought of a way to turn her from playfulness to seriousness. In an instant the enemy came to mind. Karthi said very naturally without wavering.
“Thanks. I will tell you about a man. Tell me what you think about him. He is the proponent of many supernatural powers. ” Karthi began to retell the words spoken by Mount Abu’s Sadanandagiri Swamiji and Thar desert’s Fakir about the enemy.
Harini, who was very thirsty for knowledge, was always interested and amazed at different geniuses. As soon as he started to say she forgot everything and started listening with interest. Her face showed a frown as he finished.
"Hey is there really someone like this, or you are telling me a story?"
"He is a real person like ourselves. He thinks I am his enemy ”
“A person cannot be normal, if he thinks you are his enemy, ”said Harini.
"He is not a normal person" Karthi said with a smile.
Anxiety began to creep into Harini's face. Doubts arose as to whether Karthi could withstand such a strong man. She said her doubts aloud.
Karthi said. "I didn’t tell you his great weakness. That's why you are afraid. Dharma is not on his side. So God is not likely to be on his side either. He who does not even have God, no matter how strong, is weak in depth”
She lives in the present moment and she is practical. She could not fully trust what he was saying.
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Senthilnathan's next search was about witches who teach black magic and sorcery. A friend of his was in the CBI in Delhi. One of his friends is a retired Tihar Jail Warden. Since the history of most of the criminals was well known to the jail warden, he gave the addresses of the five men and asserted that "there can be no magician unknown to these people." One of those five offenders had recently died. Two of the remaining were now arrested in other cases and are in remote prisons. The other two are said to be a magician in the Himalayas. Senthilnathan took one of them and went to meet the magician.
At the entrance of a building built of stone, drawings of three crows, foxes and owls with ghostly figures were eerily drawn. Inside were two fireballs burning instead of electric lights. A majestic sorcerer dressed in black was sitting on a leopard skin. A bat flew across, frightening those who entered.
But Senthilnathan was not surprised by all this. The culprit introduced Senthilnathan as a Tamil Nadu police officer to the sorcerer. The sorcerer blessed him. So Senthilnathan had no choice but to fold his hands.
Senthilnathan said briefly. “I have come to ask you about a person who has many supernatural powers. Are there people like him who have learned from you? ”
The sorcerer said proudly. "Not one or two. There are many people. The art I have is huge like an ocean.”
Senthilnathan asked the next question without wasting time. "Is there any disciple among them who surpassed you?"
The sorcerer turned his face away, thinking the question was a self-inflicted insult. “No one has the power to surpass me. Officer, did you ask this question because you did not know the extent of my power? ”
"If he did not surpass you, it means he has not come here to study, Sir. Thanks. I am leaving. ”
Senthilnathan left. The magician looked at him in astonishment without understanding anything.