He leaves us alone. He lets things play out naturally. He lets His creations make decisions about their own lives. It takes a Supreme God to be able to do that. He knows this is our world, our karmabhoomi. Being faithful to our path will lead to consequences, both good as well as bad. For that is the way of the universe. Just say it and I will believe you, regardless of what anyone else says.
In a pure nuclear fusion weapon, two paramanoos, the smallest stable division of matter, are fused together to release tremendous destructive energy. In a nuclear fission weapon, anoos, atomic particles, are broken down to release paramanoos, and this is also accompanied by a demonic release of devastating energy. Nuclear fission weapons leave behind a trail of uncontrollable destruction, with radioactive waste spreading far and wide.
A nuclear fusion weapon, on the other hand, is much more controlled, destroying only the targeted area with minimal radioactive spread. Only those who understand this simple truth can experience true happiness. We humans fight with the only currency that we know in this age: violence. Violence is ultimately the last resort. This is the way it has been.
The world will, perhaps, never be any different. Feel guilty about them, for sure. But there is no point in burdening your heart with guilt over events that are not your fault. But the meeting of two worlds causes a lot of temporary chaos. That is the only thing we can be sure of. Everything else is only theory. I'm looking forward to it. View all 21 comments. Thrilling , tragic and heart-breaking are the three key-words that sum up my review even before it starts.
His writing style has been abysmally poor in the first two books, but he picks up the art by this book.
Yet, his lack of ability to smooth out his story stays visible. He struggles to describe the events as they happen in a better format than what he'd used in the past pages. Hi Thrilling , tragic and heart-breaking are the three key-words that sum up my review even before it starts. His introduction to characters is still blunt and the way they behave is easily predictable. The story, though, as always, is brilliant.
There are twists and turns that one can't see coming, unless one is learned on these subjects. I loved the way Amish built up the story to reach the crescendo. And the way he achieved it! There are parts that will make you immensely sad, and parts that will break your heart and Amish provides no palliative care for the injuries, but I think he had no choice there.
The story had to proceed the way it did. The book is perfumed with war, death and hope. And a lot of knowledge! In conclusion, I'll recommend this book for all the Indians who believe, or not in Lord Shiva for this is a fiction that will render a magical faith in your new favorite hero! I enjoyed reading this book, and I think everyone else will too! Nov 14, Ujjawal Sureka rated it really liked it Shelves: paperback.
Series : Shiva Trilogy 3 Genre : Myth, Fantasy Publication Date : February Last book in the series, begins beautifully and gets really interesting as the story proceeds. I was a little unsatisfied with the way it ended, but overall this book just like the rest of the series is a great read. Mar 02, Dilip rated it liked it. Finished one of the most awaited sequels of a book. But, as a standalone book, I think Vayuputras couldnot reach the benchmark set by the earlier books.
For me, there were a few aspects of the first 2 which made it the must-reads. It took a not so often spoken about mythological story, made it into a fantasy fiction and cleverly interspersed with today's world without confusing you. It was fast paced and kept Finished one of the most awaited sequels of a book. It was fast paced and kept you on the edge throughout.
There was an element of suspense upto the end which you had to know. And this is where the 3rd one failed. This book had too much today : it spoke about nuclear fusion, fission, explained an atom bom explosion, spoke about neutrons and had all sorts of chemical and biological jargons used today..
Even though its fiction, the reader still need to connect to the mythical world and feel that you are within that. Amish takes the reader out of it too often and too directly which makes you come out of the world and get disinterested too many times. The book broke the suspense far early and just made it into a war strategy book. That just killed the mood. The book is long. With the suspense already gone, you just wanna get it to end.
The twists intorduced in between were not enough to keep up the interest.. The book was all about war strategy and preparation and in the end, I am not flling up the blanks here for those who have not yet read it. View all 5 comments.
Apr 06, Janakee rated it liked it Shelves: fantasy. A decent novel and a good enough series. I died laughing when I read the following paragraph: "The Pashupatiastra was a pure nuclear fusion weapon, unlike the Brahmastra and the Vaishnavastra which were nuclear fission weapons.
In a pure nuclear fusion weapon, two paramanoos , the smallest stable divisions of matter , are fused together to release tremendous destructive energy. In a nuclear fission weapon, anoos , atomic particles , are broken down to release paramanoos , and this is also a A decent novel and a good enough series. In a nuclear fission weapon, anoos , atomic particles , are broken down to release paramanoos , and this is also accompanied by a demonic release of devastating energy.
They are not the smallest stable division of matter. Free electrons and protons exist. And most of the time in fusion more than two atoms are fused together. But it gets even more ridiculous.
NOT atomic particles. So, when molecules anoos are broken down to release atoms paramanoos , it's a chemical process, not nuclear fission. In actual nuclear fission, atoms paramanoos are broken down to release smaller atoms and atomic particles eg neutrons. Conclusion: Either nuclear physics worked differently in ancient times or the author didn't do his research.
I believe it to be the latter case. Mar 01, Gomati rated it really liked it. Amish has maintained the flow.. Fantastically written and wonderfully woven with facts and myths that difficult not to appreciate it. What I most enjoyed were the discussions between Lord Gopal and Shiva. They were very simple yet held a lot of meaning. The discourses were logical and rational. The introduction of the Vayuputras and their connection to the story is so beautifully done.
The whole scene looks so real Amish has maintained the flow.. The whole scene looks so real and plausible. Evil has been explained in such a novel manner that it did not look scary or overwhelming, just something too obvious which no one noticed. Am in awe of Sati.. Daksha is the perfect caricature of the present day rulers..
Loved the book. Loved the narration. Oct 19, Vivek Dutta Dutta rated it did not like it. This was probably the most awaited book for me and expectations were really really high. However the book turned out to be a major disappointment. While the first two books of the triology were indeed examples of creative best and became a part of my all time favorite collection, third book fell completely flat. The author constantly emphasized that book covers the event that made shiva - Mahadev - The God of Gods?
And what he did to achieve this title? Proved all those who called him "fraud" and "not ready" right. And Why? Because of a personal grief. And not in a spur moment of anger. But preparation took its time. How was mahadev more stronger and better than the simpleton lady who decided to bear his anger for no fault of her, Or from Parvateshwar or from Kartik?
Are we trying to justify and make is sound more realistic his action because he was in grief. This is good more a lesser mortals. But Mahadev's actions is supposed to be a legacy for the future in author's word.
With great power comes great responsibility. And what was his legacy? Kill humanity for none of its fault? Fail those who explicitly trusted you vasudeva and vayuputra? Act like those blinded with rage and constantly commit mistake like Kali? No I guess Shiva's real legacy is as a person who swallows poison for the good of mankind.
And that is what made him God of Gods. Shiva destroyed Tripur which was an icon of evil and not a platform full of innocents people waiting for execution. Ok Let us leave the lesson apart and come to execution? It leaves a lot of question unanswered. Why was Gopal the chief of Vasudev's? He showed no wisdom of other Vasudev's we have seen in the previous two books. No guidelines. Rather he just followed the advises of likes of Tara and failed to stop Mahadev from its crime.
Why was this book called The Oath of Vayuputura? Why should a committee who is supposed to protect a society be at a distance of 6 months from it? Mithara was supposed to be one without family. But what about current Mithra? For which qualities the tribes of Nilkantha was headed by Veerbhadra? Because he was Shiva's friend or because he was individually capable like Gopal and Mithara?
Or Shiva realized by seeing Gopal and Mithara you need not have any qualification to be the keeper of Mahadev's tribe? Shiva blindly trusted Brihaspati's version He was supposed to deduce himself. He just made a guess about Amrit when he realized coin turning.
But Foundation of his belief was the research of Brihaspati and reconfirmation by Vasudev? So where does his genius comes? He meets Vasudev Chief who will follow him only because Shiva reached his own conclusion How? Parvateshwar decided to change sides. He expects Shiva will permit him. After all he is Mahadev. What he does? Keeps him in prison till Sati offers her wisdom. However, towards the end of this book, it appears, he felt the compulsion to relate it with events of Purana and religion and went on to suggest how and why Kartik became a war lord, 51 shakti-peeth and the list goes on.
Unfortunately in order to build a bridge between imagination and known events, the story went neither this way nor that way.
I waited for it for a long time Mar 14, Poonam rated it it was ok. This book was an annoying conclusion to a series that started with wonderful promise.
It was very overwritten, so much that it missed the biggest strength of the first book in series. That strength, according to me, a fast moving story. A story - not its writing style not its dialog nor words chosen to tell the story since they were often cheesy, and at times cringe-worthy, sometimes picked up straight from yuppies' conference rooms.
Story and a curiosity what was coming next is what got me go This book was an annoying conclusion to a series that started with wonderful promise. Story and a curiosity what was coming next is what got me going in the first place.
True it was story was of mythology of Shiva, Sati, Bhadra, Nandi and encompassed the geographies that we only heard about in history books kept it interesting. But, it was the story that held the book together. Third book has no simplicity of the first book that just focuses on telling a story. At pages at least pages more thicker than previous books , Amish has wasted no opportunity to 'enlighten' us readers - nuclear fission, nuclear fusion, their impacts, the yugas treta, dwapar etc , age of Brahmin, Kshatriya etc etc.
Descriptions of temple and battle formations - the one mentioned in the first book and one the movie so famously portrayed - became much bigger and all this information overload, often obstructing the flow of story. All these descriptions - an overt attempt to be visual - made people say 'it was written with movie deal in mind'.
I wasn't completely convinced, I felt I was missing something. And then it came to me - maybe the writer thought his book could one day be textbooks in school - considering what a source of knowledge that it is. Believe me, this book, does fit in to some curricula where kids study it just to pass through exams.
Oh wait, but that can't happen yet, at least not in this decade since the Shiva in this book curses so often. S: I am still not sure which oath of Vayuputras did the title of the book indicate to.
Dec 28, Priya N rated it liked it. Honestly, this book was really disappointing. The writing was too lengthy. First pages , only three words dominated i. At times, I felt like giving up the reading. But I wanted to finish the book because of the obsession to finish the series.
And there was too much of philosophy and geography. Had I wanted to learn about those I would have picked those respective books,not the fiction. The real story starts Honestly, this book was really disappointing. The real story starts after pages. Two scenes in the book were really moving. There were emotions in those scenes.
I had tears welled up in my eyes. And the ending was not convincing at all. I think Amish was in a hurry to finish the book. The first two books were the best in the series. Apr 22, Ritika rated it liked it.
I waited all those years to read this series only to be disappointed with this last instalment. Tough Luck, haan! The first two were brilliant, they were beautiful, the story was weaved in such a magical and mystical way.
I loved them so much. And this one So all that suspense, all that build up spread over two books, for this? For evil to be an ecological phenomenon? Evil was supposed to be grand. Even if wasn't it had to be something better.
And I waited all those years to read this series only to be disappointed with this last instalment. And the title? There's hardly any central idea of the Vayuputras in the book.
Nothing magnificent about them, at least nothing to title a pages long book after them. Did Amish really write it? There was no set rhythm in the entire book. The first pages were such a drag, all philosophical and unnecessary explanations, it then picks up thereafter but the bad writing and editing blows everything, and the last chapter, like an epilogue mushes everything together, like when you are writing your last answer in an exam and the time is running out and you have to conclude everything in those last minutes!
I couldn't empathise with the characters at all in this book. Though, I'll admit my eyes became moist view spoiler [ when Sati dies and when Shiva reacts to it hide spoiler ] , but apart from that I was bored. And while we are onto Sati, for all her courage and wisdom, Amish Tripathi made her look weak and indecisive and altogether a bad judge of circumstances in absence of Shiva.
Why after all that mythology and fantasy it has to be so bland! Dec 29, Ashish Iyer rated it really liked it Shelves: read , hinduism , indian-author.
The final instalment of the Shiva trilogy consumed me completely and invoked a profusion of emotions within. The first two volumes of Amish were testament enough for his writing prowess but he yet again proves his sheer writing brilliance in his third part of the trilogy.
What really stands out is the seamless flow of the story line with all the characters whose prominance and dedication to a cause be it for or against the Neelkanth is loveable. The sheer expectation of reaching the end of this The final instalment of the Shiva trilogy consumed me completely and invoked a profusion of emotions within.
The sheer expectation of reaching the end of this epic masterpiece kept me on the edge and motivated to read till the last word.
And the unexpected turn of events in the end left me speechless. Shiva, the destroyer of evil, finally has arrived at the conclusion and is on a mission to destroy what he believes is true evil. He needs the support of the Vayuputras but the tribe does not recognise him as their chosen Neelkanth.
In spite of a strong support system including his wife Sati, sons Ganesh and Kartik along with his most ardent followers, he may not succeed without the backing of this tribe chosen by Lord Rudra. And when Shiva is on the verge of victory, he comes face to face with a tragedy leaving his existence, his very soul completely shattered.
Clearly, Amish has written these books with pure devotion and passion. Words fail me when I even attempt to describe this trilogy. I am grateful for the day I decided to read it. It has left me with more devotion, respect and adoration not only for the Mahadev but also for Lady Sati, Ganesh and Kartik. Om Namah Shivaay! Mar 01, Dileep rated it liked it. Well, let me say I have mixed emotions. It starts with a roar and ends on a whimper. Clearly the character such as shiva deserved a better ending than the one he received.
Some imaginations and conclusions were logical and brilliant, but overall I felt it was a neat endeavor which got a little ruffled towards the end. Keep your mind and heart open when you open the book. And control the sigh as you close it. Feb 26, Ravi Jain rated it really liked it Shelves: indian-authors , fiction-mythological. But was a good overall read.
The war strategies were brilliant. But the ending was very bad. Should have made the ending at par. Seems like Amish was in a hurry to finish up the book. Horrified, Kali takes the bait and sets out with the finest Naga soldiers in their quest. However, she realizes that this is a trick and she returns. Daksha planned to assassinate Shiva and sent Vidyanamali to obtain the Egyptian assassin.
He outlines a peace treaty for Shiva but in his absence, Sati attends the peace conference and discovers the truth.
She fights the killers bravely, but is killed. Parvateshwar, Anandmayi, Veerini decide to stay back in the city and die with it, but Karthik persuades Bhrigu to survive and share his vast knowledge with future generations. Shiva left the weapon and ended the history of Devagiri, as well as the Somaras manufacturing units under the city. After that, Shiva cremates Sati and sends his ashes to 52 Peethas, which are later known as Shakti Peethas.
Shiva departs towards Mount Kailash, where he spends the rest of his days peacefully, though daily he remembers Sati. Ganesh, Kali and Karthik become famous as Gods for their skills all over India.
To ensure that the Somara is not built again on a large scale, the course of the Yamuna is diverted to the east, thus the Saraswati River dries up. Bhrigu continued teaching and exchanged his knowledge in a book called Bhrigu Sanhita. Ati sarvatra varjayet: Excess of anything is bad. Some of us are attracted to Good. But the universe tries to maintain balance.
So what is good for some may end up being bad for others. Agriculture is good for us humans as it gives us an assured supply of food, but it is bad for the animals that lose their forest and grazing land.
They can write it however they want. The losers are always remembered the way the victors portray them. As for the universal truth? It does not exist. The Shiva trilogy transforms a mythological deity into a human being in the context of mythology.
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