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MyBharatha - Devavratha

I heard that she is an angel  and my seven brothers are vasus who were cursed and hence were supposed to incarnate as humans. Do all these justify her to drown all the seven of them? Her own babies, soon after they are born? What happened to the affection of the mother?
  And father stopped her from drowning me. And since he broke her promise she immediately left him. She raised me till I was 16 and brought me back then.
  I am back in Hastinapur and see father has turned more like a hermit. I decide that I will try and correct my mother's mistake. I will always keep my father happy.
  But suddenly father becomes moody. He is lost in thought, he does not eat his food properly. He is flippant when I ask him for the reason. I do my own investigation and come to know that father has fallen in love with a fisher woman and her father is not willing to marry her to father.
  I go to their hut. Asking the hand of Satyavati for my father. Look at the irony of the situation. A son going to arrange the marriage of the father ! I ask her father. This fisher man says " See , I am happy to see that she is going to marry the king of Hastinapur. But what about her children? They will never be kings. They will always be servants of you who will be the king. This is going to cause a lot of trouble to my daughter. Let her stay away from the king" . I try to convince him that I will never become the king and I will make sure that Satyavati's son will be the king. He is still not happy. He asks " What happens when you have children. They will claim the throne from my grand child." Completely desperate, I promise him that I will never marry. He shouts in joy and showers praises on me. Calls me "Bheeshma " for my oath. I am stuck with this new name.
   Now if I look back, what right did that fisher man to completely wreck my life? He wants his grand child as king and I should never see any off spring. What justice is that? And why did not anybody stop me from my useless oath?
   Satyavati comes home as my step mother. Father is happy again and that makes me content. Now I have two brothers. Chitrangada and Vichitraveerya. I bring them up as if they are my own children. I will make arrangements to give them good education.
      Chitrangada died in a war childless. Now at least Vichitraveerya must be married. So I attend the swayamvar of Kasi and defeat all the other kings and win the daughters of the king Amba, Ambika and Ambalika. I bring them home as brides for my brother. But troubles have no end in my life. The eldest princess Amba tells me that she is attracted to Salva and wants to marry him. I agree and send her to Salva. But Salva tells her as he is defeated by me, he will not accept her in marriage and she should come back to me. So she comes back. But now my brother is not ready to marry a girl, who has set her heart to another person. Amba asks me to marry her myself. How can I? I decline. Enraged Amba goes to forest and does tapas and gets a boon from Lord Shiva  that she can kill me. Why does she hate me so much? What is my fault in all this?
   Now look at grand children of my brother. They are fighting and have decided to kill each other and dragging me in this war.
Almighty, you tell me what is my fault in all this and why I am being punished all through my life?
  

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