Satyavatee Leaves Hastinaapur

Fate is not the same as destiny. Destiny is "the events are happening in whichever fashion the future will depend on it. The design of wall depends upon how the bricks are laid down. This wall's first brick is Dhritraashtra, so when the very first brick is not laid down straight then how the rest of the wall can rise straight? Among other bricks, one brick is of Satyavatee's ambitions also."

After all rites were over, Vyaas Jee came to Satyvatee and said - "Now I have to do my final duty. Kaal (time) flows like a river and this body is like a boat which cannot stay stable in that river, and the soul is like a traveler who is in continuous search of his Ghaat (staying place on the bank of a river) or aim." Satyvatee asked - "Putra, What are you saying today?"

Vyaas said - "How would you understand it? Neither Dharm has its consciousness, nor mother is aware of herself. But for how long you will be standing on the Ghaat of your motherly love? Mother, crying on one's generation's dead bodies cannot be the aim of one's life. Come out of this bondage." Satyavatee said - "But where do I go?" Vyaas said - "Mother, Tapovan (in forest where many Rishi do Tap etc religious duties) is open for you. Your work in Hastinaapur is over now. Take along Ambikaa and Ambaalikaa also."

Satyavatee asked - "Why are you talking like this today?" Vyaas said - "Dhritraashtra is blind, he cannot see it, and you will not be able to see it. This is good that a family person doesn't know the script of Fate, and this is also true that whatever has to happen, the same will happen. Whatever is going to happen here, you will not be able to see it." Satyavatee got surprised to hear this, she asked - "Putra, What is going to happen here?" Vyaas said smilingly - "Whatever is going to happen tomorrow, why do you want to know it today? Sometimes A-Gyaan (ignorance) becomes shield and Gyaan (knowledge) becomes the cause of sorrows. I will say only this much that whatever I am foreseeing, you will not be able to see it, so come with me. Another few years and sin will prevail in the mind of your grandson Dhritraashtra and his sons. Mother, you have no strength of mind to watch your great grand-children's destroy each other. Your son has come to take you."

Hearing all this Satyavatee got ready to go with Vyaas along with Ambikaa and Ambaalikaa. They all went to see Dhritraashtra. As they entered his chamber, he said - "Oh Rishi Vyaas?" Vyaas said - "As you recognize the sound of everybody's footsteps, may God give you the power to recognize the sound of your future also." Dhritraashtra said - "How this unfortunate Dhritraashtra will recognize the sound of anybody's footsteps?"

Vyaas said - "Don't blame fate for any kind of event or accident, because if the fate had been everything, then there would be no meaning of Karm (actions) in life. Whatever happens, a person himself is responsible for it. Fate means that only Bhagvaan knows that what a person is going to do in future, but He never interferes in his Karm. Therefore if Gaandhaaree has tied the strip on her eyes, then at least you don't tie any strip on your soul's eyes (soul's eyes means consciousness); and at the same time don't forget this also that Duryodhan is only your eldest son, but Yudhishthir is the eldest of Kuru family."

Dhritraashtra said - "Guruvar, then please take me also along with you." Vyaas said - " Sanyaas is not the name of running away from oneself, rather it is the name of facing one's own "Aham" (ego or self). If you can follow, then be the Sanyaasee of Grihasth Aashram." Dhritraashtra asked - "How?" Vyaas Jee said - "Whatever is not yours is not yours. You should know it and you should be aware of it."