Stages and the basic

It was a holiday. Asthav was lying on his bed, sleeping like a lazy sloth. Suddenly, his alarm rang.

"Awwww man! It's only 10 A.M.!! I wanted to sleep more!!" Asthav said with an irritated tone.

"Guess I'll wake up now" he said and, got up from his bed.

He touches the ground with his hands before his feet and, then touches his own forehead, performing a Pranām towards mother earth everyday. He gets up and uses neem, to clean his teeth. "Today's day is going to be really tiring, I can feel it." he said while rubbing his teeth. After some time, he hears a knock on his door.

"Beta Asthav!! Are you awake yet?" The voice of the Pratham Guruji approaches his ears.

"Uhhhh!! Y-Yes Guruji........I am awake." Asthav said with a little trampled voice.

The temple's bell rang 4 hours ago but, Asthav's eyes opened just a few minutes ago. He was afraid that if the Pratham Guruji finds out that he's been sleeping for that long, then he may punish him.

"Good! As I thought so. I need you to come to the temple's grass fields at 11 o'clock. Your wandering Guru has arrived" Pratham Guruji said.

An amazing mixture of happiness rushed through Asthav's heart and his mouth automatically opened and spoke "YESS GURUJI!! OF COURSE!!"

"Hahahaha! So excited, aren't you!? You're going to become an Aarwan! I am soo proud of you, beta!" Pratham Guruji said. There was a feeling of absolute wholesomeness in his voice.

"Thank you Guruji! I promise, I won't disappoint you!" Asthav exclaimed with passion. "Hahaha! Ok beta! I got it. Just come to the grass fields after an hour, okay?" Guruji said.

"OKAY GURUJI!! GOT IT!" Asthav replied. "Okay then!" Guruji said and left for his office. Asthav got ready and arrived at the the Grass fields.

The cold breeze of autumn was blowing intensely, the sun was shining bright. The rattling of the grasses were producing a soothing sound to the ears.

"Everything feels soo good!! I am glad that I never gave up on my dream!! This environment is soo cool!!" Asthav said with a tone of amazement.

He rolled his eyes to the tree, situated in the middle of the grass field. He saw the terrifying Royal Hawaldar Raman and suddenly, all of the thoughts in his mind got crushed. The cold breeze suddenly started to feel dry, the sound of the rattling of the grasses started to feel annoying, the sunshine started to gave a burning sensation to his head.

"W-what is that?!! I-is that a statue of some kind!??! I cannot believe that it's a Royal Hawaldar!! Why is he here!?!!?" Asthav said with a terrified tone. Raman turned his head towards Asthav. It felt like he was staring intensely even through the mask.

Asthav had no choice but to go under the tree to meet his new Wandering Guru that was the Royal Hawaldar Raman.

He didn't like Royal Hawaldars since he was a kid. He always saw them as a medium to bring fear to people's hearts, so that they would fear doing anything wrong. He also saw them as a failure. Generally, a person who becomes a Royal Hawaldar is someone who has failed as an Aarwan.

A Royal Hawaldar is selected by two mediums:-

1) Through an official examination that the government conducts every 2 year.

2) A person who cannot win the required number of tournaments to proceed to another rank for an extended period of time, gets stuck at the same position and has no choice but to get a recruitment letter from the government.

The second one happens very often. Being an Aarwan isn't an easy job.

"*Sing* looks like I have no choice. Let's go then" Asthav said and started moving towards the tree.

"Welcome, Asthav. I've heard a lot of things about you. It seems like you honed your soul armour to it's limits." Raman said. His voice felt soo heavy to Asthav.

"Y-Yes, Guruji" Asthav replied.

"Take off, your kurta." Raman ordered. Asthav took off his kurta.

Raman saw a perfectly developed upper body of Asthav. His muscles were perfectly developed and trained. His six packs, biceps, triceps, neck muscles, shoulders muscles, chest muscles, back muscles, neck muscles, obliques were fully developed like an adult.

"I am soo amazed of how strong your soul armour is." Raman said with a tone of amazement.

"Thank you, Guruji! I worked 5 years for this" Asthav replied.

"And, what's with that metal arm of yours?" Raman asked.

"Oh! This?" He pointed at his arm.

"My arm got heavily messed up during my fight with Rudra. So, the Aacharya gave me a metal plaster treatment. My arm would keep healing inside the plaster, while I would still be able to use my metal arm" Asthav replied.

"Good. Now, Asthav, sit down and let me revise you, the basics of Mantra." Royal Hawaldar Raman said with a great commanding tone.

"Yes, Guruji." Asthav replied and sat down on his knees.

Raman pulled out a wooden board from the back of the tree and a white powder. He put a small amount of the white powder in his hand and turned it in a cylindrical shape.

"Now, let us start." Raman said and began explaining him about the concept of Mantra from the beginning.

*"There are veins in your body that are connected to your spirit that are called Niveda (spirit veins) and connects in the middle of your chest, to your Spirit (Aatmn). Just like the nervous system, the spirit veins are spread throughout your body and they help you cast Mantras. There are pronounceable words and symbols that are carved on your spirit veins and, when the spirit energy passes through them, your spirit automatically generates a pronounciation that echoes throughout the entire interior of your body. It's up to you whether you pronounce it or not. If you're teaching someone about how to caste Mantras, then it is compulsory to teach them the Mantras by speaking but in the battle however, it's not very useful."*

*"You can increase your spirit stages. It is confirmed that a person's spirit has no limits and every spirit connects to the realm of Brahman, a spiritual deity that guards the gate of afterlife. There are five confirmed stages of spirit evolution but, most of the people think that there are infinite stages but it's just a theory. The stage that you get taught by the temple is known as Stage Shoonya (Zero). This stage is the most basic stage that fits in every profession. In this stage, you basically use your spirit energy to enhance your physical strength and launch massive attacks on your opponents."*

*"Shoonya stage has two types of forms.

(Form 1)- Your spirit energy stays in your body and enhances your physical strength and it's attributes.

(Form 2)- You are able to transfer your spirit energy in other objects and increase their temperature and weight"*

Asthav remembers his fight with Rudra. When Rudra increased the ground's temperature. "Oh! I got it!"

*"Spirit energy, when comes out of the body is basically a light blue coloured steam that represents the sky. Now let's talk about a Full Spirit Release also known as a Shakkri. Performing a Full Spirit Release in this stage could be extremely dangerous, because you're basically releasing your entire soul out of your body. Shakkri attacks directly to your opponent's soul armour and demolishes it. You shouldn't perform a Shakkri right now, first you need to evolve your spirit. You can increase your spirit energy by meditating, but it cannot increase your spirit stage. You can increase your spirit stage by the help of the Dhyan Mantra. Now let me teach you that how the Dhyan Mantra works."

*"There is a limit of the Shoonya stage. There would be a time where you wouldn't be able increase your spirit energy any further. Then, there is an indication that you need to increase your spirit stage. Dhyan Mantra is an extremely powerful version of meditation. When you apply spirit energy to your meditation, then it becomes a Dhyan Mantra. There are many types of Dhyan Mantra taught by the various Guru Ji around the world. There is a cycle in Dhyan Mantra, that lets you increase your spirit energy infinitely. That is known as The Anant Chakra."

   *"You use spirit energy to meditate"*

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*"Your meditation increases your spirit energy"*

*"And the cycle continues till infinity but, don't get too excited. If you don't prepare your soul armour enough, then your body would shatter into pieces. That's why Aarwans don't use Dhyan Mantra so often. They first have to train their body to handle the spirit energy. Dhyan Mantras were only meant to be used in evolving the spirit stage, when you are ready. So don't use Dhyan Mantras to increase your spirit energy, use it to increase your spirit stage. Got it?"*

"Y-Yes Guruji." Asthav responded.

"Oh! Look! It's almost evening. Let's continue this next day." Royal Hawaldar Raman said.

"Okay Guru Ji" Asthav replied. "Tomorrow I shall teach you about the first stage of mantra evolution and, we would have a long training session afterwards. So, be prepared for tomorrow, Got it?" Raman said again with a commanding tone.

"Okay, Guru Ji. I got it!" Asthav replied and they both left.

Asthav arrived to his room and crashed down on his bed.

"Ahh! That was terrifying! It felt like he would murder me any second if he wanted to! His voice was soo heavy and sharp. Why was he here anyways?! did something happen to the real Wandering Guru?! Who knows!" Asthav said with a tired tone.

"He said, that tomorrow he would begin my training. I need to do something about that locket. Looks like that he didn't know yet that I am powerless. Maybe, he would cancel my training if I told him. I cannot afford to miss such an opportunity to become an Aarwan." Asthav thought.

"Ok! I've decided now!! I am going to take that locket from the basement tonight!! I am going to become an Aarwan!! No matter what comes in my way!!" He said with a prideful and determined tone. Asthav was waiting for the night to come. He wanted to prove himself so badly, that he was willing to risk everything for it.

                                    -(Episode 6 end)-

Next Episode's quote: "Do it on your own, no one would help you"

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