Love, Betrayal and Compassion

Gayatri Devi, the cultured and the aristocratic:


Gayatrri devi’s character was designed to represent the ordinary and the most common.

The character has a façade that we all keep in front of our true selves. Unlike Gayatri however, who was blessed to have a daughter like Shwetambari, to break her spell, most of us live and die in complete illusion.

Gayatri Devi is born in aristocracy with a feudal mind and is used to getting things done her way. In her mind, what she does is all good and what she despises is all bad. She is used to writing the rule book. Though her regal beauty and inherited royalty still rules in Banaras, she is ignorance personified... She is illustrative of the lives of the majority.

Imagine the paradox; a person who lives in Banaras in the company of the great masters remains full of fear, ego and lives in total illusion. On one hand you have Buddha, Kabir, Vyas and Kabir and on the other you have Gayatri Devi.

Just peek into the mind of a convoluted mother who actually believed that her action was to rescue Shwetambari out of the clutches of Soham. She convinced herself that her daughter had gotten completely insane in love and that she was incapable of knowing the consequences of her own act. This action of Gayatri Devi is also illustrative of how millions of parents interfere in the lives of their children with "insane" mind and impose upon them their thoughts that destroy the lives of their children.

On the other hand, Shwetambari loves her parents so much so, that despite learning the truth about Soham’s death, she is able to relate to the mind of her mother and forgive her. However there are millions of children who succumb to the wishes of parents but continue to hold a grudge against them for life time.

Shwetambari’s character depicts two vital points. First, that parent must listen to the children’s wishes, analyze and communicate to them their "wisdom" but never impose upon them; The second is that even if parents make a mistake, they may be forgiven, as their intents are seldom to harm the interests of their children.


In the next blog we will look into the psyche of a murderer who creates a perfect hell, suffers through and finally gets redeemed.

Gayatri's story continues.....