The Secret Of The Nagas Full Book

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Inthis installment of the series, Shiva and his companions travel the breadth and length of the country, from Swadeep to Kashi, then to Branga and finally to the land of the Nagas. Shiva learns that he can communicate with the mysterious Vasudev pundits with his mind. Several well-documented geographical attributes of the Indian sub-continent are featured in the story, like the famed Sunderbans.

Sati unearths startling discoveries about her Suryavanshi heritage and discovers several long-lost relatives along the journey. As a result of these, there is a rift between Shiva and Sati for the first time in their entire wedded life.

It portrays a budding romance for the stern Suryavanshi General, Parvateshwar. It is also revealed to Shiva that people he once trusted, have not been so forthcoming to him, and have several secrets to hide, which is left to his to ferret out. In fact, almost everything that Shiva believed to be true earlier, is now exposed to be half-truths, and Shiva is forced to reassess his beliefs once again.

Another interesting aspect of the book is documenting the existence of ligers, in the form of a fatal attack on a Kashi village. After reading about it, I checked out ligers in Wikipedia and it does say that in the ancient past there were legends of the existence of ligers in the wild. Kudos to Amish for having researched his history well, and adding them into the story-mix.

The language of the book is no better than that of The Immortals of Meluha, with the people speaking in perfect English, irrespective of which country they are in. Considering that India is famed for the thousands of languages and dialects spoken all over the country, it is a little hard to believe that Shiva is able to travel all over the country with no need for a translator anywhere. Everyone speaks the same everywhere, be it Kings, soldiers or even an uneducated peasant. I would have liked it better if the author had at the least, infused a few sentences in local languages, just for a change from the boring monotone.

Again, this book irritates me because it jumps straight into the story with no regard whatsoever for someone who might have stumbled upon this book first. There are no explanations whatsoever for what might have transpired in the earlier book (The Immortals of Meluha). The author simply assumes that whoever reads this book would have read the first one as well, and just plunges headlong into the next set of incidents that befall Shiva and his family. So, for someone who sees this book first and considers reading it, I entreat you to not do so; because, you will be completely lost and hate the tale as you have no clue what is going on.

Apparently back in the 1980s a man decided to, illegally, interbreed tigers and lions. He went about it for years with no luck. And since this was Idaho, which really, is in the middle of nowhere, and since this was a small town in Idaho, even farther into the middle of nowhere, this man set up acres of fenced-in breeding grounds and went about his business undisturbed for decades.

Word around town was that he succeeded. Although nobody really knew what a liger was supposed to look like. I believe he bred them improperly and ended up with a ferocious, feral cross-breed inbred animal who tore through his barricades and, along with a few of its siblings, terrorized the town, until, and this is so sad, they were shot.

The Secret of the Nagas is the second novel of the Shiva trilogy series by the Indian author Amish Tripathi. The story takes place in the imaginary land of Meluha and the inhabitants of that land are saved from their wars by a nomad named Shiva. This Trilogy starts with Shiva trying to save Sati from the invading Naga. Later Shiva takes his troop of soldiers and travels far east to the land of Branga, where he wishes to find a clue to reach the Naga people. Shiva also learns that Sati's first child is still alive, as well as her twin sister. His journey ultimately leads him to the Naga capital of Panchavati, where he finds a surprise waiting for him.

The story begins where The Immortals of Meluha ended. Shiva, the fabled savior of the land of Meluha, rushes to save his wife Sati from the Naga, the supposed killer of Shiva's friend Brahaspati. The Naga escapes, dropping a coin with strange engravings. After consulting with Sati's father Daksha and Dilipa, the king of Ayodhya, they come to know that the coin belongs to King Chandraketu, the ruler of the land of Branga in eastern India. Shiva and Sati travel to Kashi, where a community of Brangas inhabit, in order to get more information on the Nagas. They are accompanied in their journey by Shiva's General Parvateshwar, his associates Nandi and Veerbhadra, Ayurvati the doctor, and Bhagirath and Anandamayi, the prince and princess of Ayodhya. At Kashi, Parvateshwar gets mortally injured while trying to pacify a riot at the Branga community. Bhagirath is given a medicine by the Branga leader Divodas to administer on Parvateshwar. The medicine works and Parvateshwar is healed, but Shiva comes to know from Ayurvati that it contains herbs which is only available at Panchavati, the capital of the Nagas. He consults with Divodas and comes to know that Branga suffers from a plague, which has led them to ally with the Nagas, in return for benefits. Shiva decides to travel to Branga but Divodas informs him that to reach there special ships need to be made, which would take about six months.

At Branga, Shiva learns that the only person aware of the medicine recipe is a bandit named Parashuram, who leads a secluded life and kills any man coming near his abode in the jungles. Shiva and his men defeat Parashuram, and to his surprise comes to know that he is a Vasudev, the group of scholars who have been guiding him on his journey. Parashuram is also surprised to see Shiva as the fabled Neelkanth; in remorse for his actions, he severs his left hand. He gives the recipe of the medicine to the people of Branga and leaves for Kashi with Shiva. At Kashi Shiva is introduced to Ganesh and Kali by Sati. Shiva recognizes Ganesh as the Naga who tried to attack on Sati and as the killer of Brahaspati. Severely angered, he leaves Sati and takes up residence at the Branga locality. One day, while playing with Kartik at a local park, three lions attack them and Ganesh becomes severely injured while saving Kartik. Shiva forgives him and together with Sat, confronts Daksha, who confesses to murdering Sati's first husband and denouncing Kali and Ganesh. Daksha blames Shiva for causing distrust between him and Sati, who disgusted with Daksha's deeds, asks him to leave Kashi and go back to Meluha.

Shiva decides to travel to Panchavati under the guidance of Kali, who is the Naga queen and knows the path through the Dandak Forest to the Naga capital. While traveling they are attacked from the river side by a cache of ships containing the weapons of mass destruction known as Daivi Astra that was once forbidden by Lord Rudra, the legendary supreme ruler of India. After fleeing from the attack and safely reaching Panchavati, Shiva and Sati suspect Daksha to be behind this. Kali takes Shiva to a nearby school in the capital, where she believes that the greatest secret of the Nagas lie. There in a classroom, Shiva finds Brahaspati, perfectly alive and teaching a class.

In the venture, Shiva finds out that Nagas are not evil. There are incidents when the Nagas save the lives of his wife, Sati, and son, Kartik. In these incidences, a major secret about Naga Queena- Kali and Lord of Naga People- Ganesh is revealed, which keeps everyone stunned.

The chapters are woven into each other trying to keep the reader stick to the book. In every episode, a new fact reveals, new characters come to life. In few parts of the book, I felt this is unnecessary addition of events and characters in book, but later on realized those things had an impact on the happenings later on. Each Event in the book controls the Flow of the book.

Being a Hindu, the description of Goddess kali and Lord Ganesh as Naga (Characters with Deformities) was difficult for me to digest. Still, I kept in my mind that this is just a fiction with names from mythology. Over all a good and satisfying read.

I recently wrote a book review on the first book of Shiva trilogy The Land of Meluhas. Now its time to review the next book. Well well, those who read my previous review know that I thoroughly enjoyed reading the first book. I had to start the second book immediately.(You will come to know why I am saying this when you read the end of the first one)

The Secret of Nagas is full of twists and turns. The entire perspective about most of the characters in the book changes. There are moments where your jaws will just drop when the secret is revealed and few of the twists were quite predictable.

We live in a universe full of electro-magnetic, subtle energy and pranic currents embedded in our own bodies and in the very fabric of space. These cosmic forces are symbolised as serpents (nagas) in yogic thought. Mastering them is the key to the unfoldment of higher awareness.

Nagas are not simply snakes but represent all the transformative electrical forces of the cosmos from the material level to that of pure consciousness. Unfortunately, today we have forgotten how to read the symbolism of nature, such as rishis and yogis can, and see only a literal serpent worship in the traditional honouring of the Nagas.

As modern physics notes, the entire universe and all of space consists of various wormholes through which subtle currents are relentlessly flowing. These currents are all Nagas, snakes or serpents in a metaphorical sense, powers arising out of a hole or moving through a channel. They are all forms of lightning or dynamic energy strikes that have their enlivening power and their danger or poison. We must recognize that we live, breathe, speak and think in and through the serpent forces of the greater cosmos.

The human body is composed of numerous channels from the digestive tract to the respiratory and circulatory systems, to the brain, from gross to subtle levels, through which the prana or vital force flows at various vibratory frequencies as our main stimulating lightning energy that keeps us alive and awake. All these channels within and around us are connected in the vast fabric of life and awareness, of which we ourselves are but a focus, a point or a transmission center.

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