But to her wonder, she couldn’t evade or shun away the thoughts as they got implanted deeply into her sub-conscious mind. “What has become of me? I have been so far controlling my mind and thought but now my mind and thought is controlling me. What’s wrong with me, I know not. “Soon you are going to marry your student, younger to you. Soon or very soon? Oh, God! Why don’t you give me power to quell my thoughts? Hadn’t I met the sage in the temple, I wouldn’t have the mental torture. Now I understand that the common desire for marriage have been hidden in my sub conscious mind and when the sage stirred away them, like a fountain, they grow in my mind unconsciously to dominate me. “Swathi had been listless and a bit depressed ever since she received the vatic pronouncement from the mysterious sage.

Though she was born in a rich and noble family, she lost her parents due to nature havoc occurred in her native place. She joined the Vivekananda Mission and pursued her studies to become a Professor in English and got a job in a reputed college. Steeped in the mechanical and monotonous life of teaching in the college, she had no time to think about her future or marriage. She had tight schedule throughout the year by working in the coaching centre, tuition centre and spoken English classes to augment her deposit amount in the bank. The tenement she had been residing had ten floors and she was residing in the fourth floor, single bed room. There was a Brahmin family at the first floor from which she received her meals, tiffin etc,. at her convenient time. She was taciturn (habitually silent, reserved or uncommunicative and not inclined to conversation unnecessarily) so she was disturbed by none.




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