In the depths unfathomable to man, under the earth, a Dehtya guru is chanting a mantra incomprehensible to all creatures, an army of Dehtya waiting for their promised general.

As the chanting stopped and silence filled the ground, the Dehtya grew impatient and shouted, “Where is our promised Dehtya that can overpower even Indra?”

Shukracharya calmly said, “He is coming, the Rakshash that can fight toe to toe against Vishnu and Lord Shiv at the same time, the Rakshish that can split the earth and shake the sky.”

Suddenly, the pressure in the air started increasing, and the earth started shaking with the sound of each step. With the ninth step, all the Dehtya of the army fell unconscious. There he emerged from the darkness, his eyes shining through the darkness, his horns resembling those of a buffalo capable of intimidating even Indra.

Shukracharya amusingly said,” I thought you would kill them all when pressure started.”.

Mahishasur, with a serious expression, said, “What’s the point of that? You’re just going to resurrect them.” Mahishasur looked into Shukracharya's eyes and said, “Why did you resurrect me? What is your purpose? What do you want ?”

“It’s strange~ so strange I can't recognise this rakshash in front of me........ that power hungry fire in his eyes has gone? How!? ”, thought Shukracharya. Shukracharya said, “We are preparing for war, and we lack a worthy leader. I want you to fill that role”. While saying that, Shukracharya saw regret appearing in the eyes of Mahishasur, the eyes that once were filled with arrogance and wickedness are now filled with regret and pity, which frustrated Shukracharya a little.

Mahishasur replied,“ I refuse...”.

Refusal became a blow for Shukracharya. In anger, he shouts, "Rambha's son, who do you think you are talking to? I am the Rakshash guru Shukracharya, you can't refuse me!" With a face full of seriousness,

Mahishasur said, "I am the one who is going to hurt, and I am the one who is going to get hurt, so I refuse to be bled again and let others be bled again, it's my actions and it's my fruit".

These words of wisdom were so unexpected that they washed away the fury of Rakshash guru, again trying to convince Mahishasur to fight in the upcoming war, Shukracharya said," You were killed mercile-".

Suddenly Mahishasur interjects, "I have murdered numerous innocents without mercy, I didn't spare kids, I didn't spared elderly, I don't think I was a worthy of mercy ", with these words, tears of regret flowed relentlessly, that power hungry fire is no longer there, only thing that remained in those eyes is the ocean of regret and acknowledgement of gravity of one’s action.

Shukracharya said,”...I’m completely taken aback by the sheer ridiculousness of this change!!, What did you go through?... What’s your journey?”

After Shukracharya had calmed down, he closed his eyes and, with the wave of his hand, conjured the two chairs. Shukracharya said,” I, as an aacharya(teacher), can recognise another aacharya, even though it’s hard to believe, but I have to accept your insane change. I want to hoard your knowledge, so let’s sit and talk.”

They sat on the freshly conjured chairs with the companion of silence, both of them didn’t wanted to speak first with time silence stretched longer, then finally Mahishasur resigned and let go off the silence.

Mahishasur said, ” When the trident of Maa was inches away from my neck and my life was flashing right before my eyes...... I realise that nobody would have any happy memory about me, I was a symbol of arrogance and ignorance even though I had conquered the heavens, I still wasn’t satisfied.... ever after killing many innocents, I still wasn’t satisfied, Naturally I thought that I just desire more, and I kept committing atrocities, but I thought wrong, it’s wasn’t ’I desire more ’ it was my karma weighting down on me. After realizing that I look into the eyes of Maa, her eyes were filled with the anger but there was flickering sadness, I got confuse and thought, ‘why are you sad, don’t you hate?’ and suddenly her furious expression got soft as if saying ‘I don’t’, Why? Why doesn’t she hate me?, I have killed so many dear to her, she has every right to hate me! But she didn’t.... After my death, I was sent to the judgement room of Yama, and I saw the rakshash ascending to heaven, how! Why!? Don’t they hate rakshash why would they judge a rakshash to be in heaven, then a yamdut told me that ‘No fool!, judgement is not something to be measured upon the favorability, only karma is measured in this judgement, that rakshash is Niru, he worked for the betterment of weak and always protected the weak that was only reason for which he is ascending to heaven’, When I was judged for the atrocities I committed I was sent to the deepest part of the hell, from where you resurrected me back.”

After that, they sat in silence until the fire went out and Shukracharya tossed another skull into the sizzling coal; that skull immediately started burning.

“Ha Ha” chuckling, Shukracharya said, “These are the weak rakshash who died due to starvation... that the brutality of this place. And it’s the only thing we could get, we can extinguish these sufferings once we get what we deserve.”

Mahishasur asked, ” What do we deserve?”

Shukracharya answered, ” Heaven.”

//please let me know if i made any mistake//