Diary #3 - Happy to be alive again
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Dear Diary,
Sorry it's been so long since my last entry. Getting burnt to a
crisp in the name of love and then reincarnated as your good friend's son
before re-ascending to your godly status can keep a god really busy.
I will say, as much as I definitely did not enjoy getting
incinerated by dear old Shiva, I am genuinely proud of why I did it. See, Shiva
was married to Sati. Sidenote, big fan of Sati. Anyway, Sati’s dad and Shiva did
not really get along. It got bad enough that Sati killed herself in protest of
their arguments (a little extreme if you ask me). Luckily, Sati was reborn as
the goddess Parvati. However, Shiva was so heartbroken he had refused to
remarry, and worse, refused to do his job. If I hadn't sacrificed myself Shiva
would never have been reunited with his soulmate and the world would have descended
into chaos.
Shiva's despair was so great that he was not only refusing to remarry, he was completely refusing visitors of any sort. I knew that whoever interrupted Shiva's self imposed isolation would most likely die. Shiva has a third eye that he opens when he is angry. Anything or anyone in the direct blast of that eye is destroyed. My original plan would have been to send Parvati alone to see Shiva. I knew that as soon as he laid his two normal eyes on her all would be right agin. However, the threat of the third eye made that plan far too dangerous. I could not risk Parvati getting burnt to a crisp and waiting till she was reborn for Shiva to find love again. So I decided that Parvati and I would go together to meet with Shiva, and I would block her from his view until I was certain he would not use his third eye.
We approached Shiva. I shot him with a flower arrow (hoping to put him in a good mood) to wake him up, and he immediately turned his third eye on me (so the flower arrow definetely did not have the intended effect). I wish I could describe what happened next but I honestly don't know. One minute the image of Shiva sleeping is clear as day and the next thing I know I am slowly reawakening inside a mortal body.
I found out exactly what happened next when I reascended from Rati. She said that once Shiva's anger had been spent on me he closed his third eye and opened his other two. The second he saw Parvati his soul recognized hers and they fell deeply in love. He restored order to the world and all was well.
So you see, love really can save the world.
Shiva's despair was so great that he was not only refusing to remarry, he was completely refusing visitors of any sort. I knew that whoever interrupted Shiva's self imposed isolation would most likely die. Shiva has a third eye that he opens when he is angry. Anything or anyone in the direct blast of that eye is destroyed. My original plan would have been to send Parvati alone to see Shiva. I knew that as soon as he laid his two normal eyes on her all would be right agin. However, the threat of the third eye made that plan far too dangerous. I could not risk Parvati getting burnt to a crisp and waiting till she was reborn for Shiva to find love again. So I decided that Parvati and I would go together to meet with Shiva, and I would block her from his view until I was certain he would not use his third eye.
We approached Shiva. I shot him with a flower arrow (hoping to put him in a good mood) to wake him up, and he immediately turned his third eye on me (so the flower arrow definetely did not have the intended effect). I wish I could describe what happened next but I honestly don't know. One minute the image of Shiva sleeping is clear as day and the next thing I know I am slowly reawakening inside a mortal body.
I found out exactly what happened next when I reascended from Rati. She said that once Shiva's anger had been spent on me he closed his third eye and opened his other two. The second he saw Parvati his soul recognized hers and they fell deeply in love. He restored order to the world and all was well.
So you see, love really can save the world.
Rati did a great job of handling my job while I was away. While
she did modify my curse on Vishnu while I was away, her intentions were
good.
Dear old Vishnu had incurred my wrath as Rama when he was a total idiot. I had basically cursed him to be separated from his soulmate and wander alone throughout his next mortal incarnation.
Dear old Vishnu had incurred my wrath as Rama when he was a total idiot. I had basically cursed him to be separated from his soulmate and wander alone throughout his next mortal incarnation.
Apparently after Shiva killed me Rati was of course heartbroken.
Shiva promised her that I would be reincarnated as a child of Krishna and then,
once that body had died, I would return to my rightful place amongst the gods.
That turned out to be a slight issue when Vishnu's next reincarnation was none
other than Krishna.
Because of course it was.
Between the fiery death and my own curse preventing my rebirth it
was not a super great time in my existence. To be fair, when I cursed
Vishnu to lose his next incarnation's soulmate because of pride and be
alone for that life , I certainly hadn't expected my reincarnation to be
contingent upon Vishnu's reincarnation getting hitched. Luckily for me Rati had
the perfect idea of how to still punish Vishnu for what we now refer to as
"the incident" with Rama and Sita while making sure that I was
reborn.
While Krishna (Vishnu) did marry, several times in fact (Rati
wanted to be really certain that he would have kids), he was barred from being
with his actual soulmate. When Krishna was a young man he fell in love with
Radha, a village girl. Unfortunately for him, Rati is a genius. She disguised
herself as the village priest, Gargacharya, and informed Krishna that he could
not marry Radha because his destiny lay elsewhere. In reality, the only reason
Krishna and Radha could not be together is because Rati was honoring my curse.
I do feel mildly bad for Radha. She had done nothing to incur our
wrath and be denied her soulmate. However, Rati made sure that she had a wonderful life even though she could not marry Krishna.
wrath and be denied her soulmate. However, Rati made sure that she had a wonderful life even though she could not marry Krishna.
Well, like I said before, diary, saving the world, rebirth, and
rejoining the gods can take quite a lot out of you. I think I'll rest
now.
Author's Note:
This
narrative combines a few different sources along with a few of my own personal
twists. The story about Sita/Parvati and Shiva wasn’t changed at all from the
source I read. I tried to put the story in a first person perspective and give the reader some insight into Kamadeva's plan. Also I liked trying to keep my curse from my second story (that Vishnu would have to live one of his mortal lives without his soulmate after Rama had treated Sita so poorly) while still sticking to the original narrative of Kamadeva's rebirth as Krishnu's son. Even though Krishna does
get married and have Kamadeva's human incarnation, he is unable to marry his soulmate according to the Epified videos. I wanted to find a way to still keep
Kamadeva's curse intact without diverging too much for the story line. I also
wanted to explain who was running the show while Kamadeva was dead. Having Rati
modify and carry out the curse seemed like the most logical course. Kamadeva is
slightly less snarky in this diary. I wanted him to be tired from the turmoil
of the events between Diary #2 and Diary #3. He will be back to his normal self
in the last diary.
Bibliography
Wikipedia, Pradyumna, wikipedia.org
Wikipedia, Kamadeva, wikipedia.org
Wikipedia, Parvati, wikipedia.org
Epified Tv, Krishna, Part B
