I TOO AM IN AGREEMENT WITH THE CONCEPT OF... SHLOK AS SHIVA...ASTHA HIS SHAKTI...ASHLOK...ARDHANARISHWARA...BOTH EQUAL AS ONE... INSEPARABLE.. EVEN IN DISTANCE... AS THEY RESIDE IN EACH OTHER'S HEART...AS SOUL.
AS WELL KRISHNA AND RADHA... AS LOVERS IN ESSENCE... DEEP FROM THE SOUL...
IN A WAY TODAY ...WAS THE REAL MARRAIGE OF ASHLOK ...WITH COMPLETE LOVE FOR EACH OTHER ... MAKING THEM ...REAL SOULMATES ...FOR SEVEN LIFETIMES ...
SHLOK AND ASTHA HAVE THE LUCK TO NOT ONLY BE HUSBAND AND WIFE ...BUT THEY ARE LOVERS AS WELL... A RARE COMBINATION ...FOR INTENSE PLEASURE...AND PERFECT BLISS...WITHIN THEMSELVES. ..IN THEIR HEARTS .
Astha who uncertain of shlok's love ...even though shlok had many times proved to astha his love even though unyielding to her ...started the stranger game ...to prove her importance to shlok in his life ...but herself was stuck in the game ...as now shlok who realised that adtha also loved him and couldn't stay away from him...for a minute ...now decided to show astha ,her immaturity in playing childish games ...and so now was adamant and not giving into astha as well as the temptations of her beauty and desire ..she was now alluring shlok with . ...who now was wanting shlok to end the game she started ...instead of stopping it herself ...and declaring her love for him ...and surrendering to him ...AND SO SHLOK BEHAVED LIKE A STRANGER HIMSELF AND ANNOUNCED HIS DEATH ...to show her how it felt to be treated as stranger ...as astha didn't tend to his wound herself but sent kavya to do it ...WHICH WAS LIKE DEATH OF SHLOK TO ASTHA ...to which astha now understanding her love for shlok.. ...was more than her ego and immaturity ...AS SHLOK WAS INDICATING TO ASTHA IF HER WINNING WAS MORE IMPORTANT THAN HIS DEATH ... and so went and surrendered to shlok immediately ...as his wife for seven lifetimes...as now astha couldn't live without shlok for even a moment ...AND COULDN'T BE A STRANGER TO SHLOK ANYMORE ...AS IN FAR AWAY FROM SHLOK ...HER SOUL . ...BUT WITH SHLOK AS HIS WIFE ...AS HIS HEART ...AND SO MERGE AS ONE ...ASHLOK ...
Astha who now realised that shlok and his love was more important to her than anything else ...went to shlok with the prasad she had to eat with shlok ...for performing kanyadaan ...but which shlok rejected to eat ...as astha was acting as a stranger instead of his wife... and varamala...as she found out that the muhuraat was auspicious for marriage made in heaven for seven life times...and now wanted to be with shlok more than anything in her life ...for seven lifetimes...with love and surrender(as shlok's life and heart too ) ...but astha even though realised her love for shlok ...was in still uncertainty ...that shlok himself had not accepted his love for her by ending the game ...instead had made her end it by withdrawing from her like before in the first suhaagraat ...and so got very scared and surrendered to shlok ...as astha knew how adamant shlok could be ...when he was angry ...and so went to shlok in love dressed up as a bride to become his wife ...
Shlok now dressed up handsomely in a dark blue sherwani ...with the brooch astha seems to have given him... now turned to adtha in a questioning but still stubborn expression ...even though was sure of astha's surrender ...as she loved him very much more than her life ...AS SHLOK WAS ALSO SURE OF HIS LOVE ...WHICH WAS VERY STRONG . ...pinned close to his heart and which showed astha ... her real place in shlok's life ...in his heart as his lover ...and so made astha happy now to surrender to shlok ...and so ASTHA NOW CONFESSED HER LOVE TO SHLOK WITH TEARS IN HER EYES ...BY SAYING ...SHLOK TO BE HAPPY THAT IT WAS SHE WHO CAME IN SURRENDER TO BE HIS WIFE ...AS ASTHA LOVED HIM MORE THAN ANYTHING AND WANTED TO BE HIS FOR SEVEN LIFETIMES ...THAT NOW SHE REALISED THST HE WAS HER WAJOOD...PEHCHAAN ...AND THAT SHE WAS IN COMPLETE WITHOUT HIM ...THAT SHE BREATHED FOR HIM ...HER HEART WITHOUT THEIR BEATS WERE OF NO USE ...LIKE ASTHA WITHOUT SHLOK...CALLED OUT TO SHLOK ...AND THAT SHE COULDN'T LIVE OR DIE WITHOUT HIM PEACEFULLY ...HER EVERY BREATH AND HEARTBEAT WAS FOR HIM ...AND THAT HER EYES ALWAYS SEARCHED FOR HIM ...AS SHLOK HAD SAID THE SAME WORDS TO ASTHA.. ...MAYBE WHICH ASTHA UNDERSTOOD NOW...AS HER DEEPEST FEELINGS FOR SHLOK ...IN FEAR OF LOOSING SHLOK ...AND HIS LOVE ..
Shlok now happy with astha's declaration ...wipes her tears ...AND DECLARES HIS LOVE FOR ASTHA TOO and then both eat prasad together as husband and wife happily ...and then astha garlands shlok ...SAYING THAT SHE WAS HIS FOR SEVEN LIFETIMES ...AND GARLANDS SHLOK ...AND ASKS HIM IF HE ALSO LOVES HER ...BUT SHLOK STOPS HER ...AND NOW SHLOK GARLANDS ASTHA... WITH THE SAME GARLAND ...BUT PUTTING THE FLOWERS AROUND ASTHA ...WHEREAS ASTHA PUTS THE THREAD THAT BINDS THE FLOWERS ...AROUND SHLOK ... INDICATING...
THE THREAD OF THE GARLAND AROUND SHLOK...WITHOUT THE FLOWERS SHOWS THAT ...SHLOK IS ASTHA'S SOUL COMPLETELY ...WHEREAS SHLOK PUTS THE FLOWERS AROUND ASTHA AS IN ONENESS ...SHOWING THAT ASTHA WAS SHLOKS ...ESSENCE. ...AND LIFES HAPPINESS ...AND THEN SHLOK LIFTING ASTHA AND PLACING HER ON THE MARRAIGE BED ...INDICATES THAT SHLOK HAD MADE ASTHA FINALLY ACCEPT HER LOVE FOR SHLOK BY HERSELF. ...LIKE HE DID MAKE ASTHA ACCEPT ... HER DESIRES TOO BY HIS DESIRES. ...AND SO ASTHA IS NOW UPLIFTED IN HER LOVE AND WOMANHOOD TOO ...BY HER OWN ACCEPTANCE OF THEM ...AND SHLOK FINALLY CONFESSESS THAT EVEN HE WAS INCOMPLETE WITHOUT HER ...AS NOW SHLOK NEEDED ASTHA AS HIS WIFE AND PARTNER IN HIS LIFE ...VERY MUCH ...
IN A WAY TODAY ...WAS THE REAL MARRAIGE OF ASHLOK ...WITH COMPLETE LOVE FOR EACH OTHER ... MAKING THEM ...REAL SOULMATES ...FOR SEVEN LIFETIMES ...
SHLOK NOW LIES DOWN ON THE BED PULLING ASTHA DOWN WITH HIM ...TO WHICH ASTHA NOW SURRENDERS SILENTLY ...AND GETS UP TO THE ANNOUNCMENT OF THE BHARAT COMING ...WITH A THROUGHLY MUSED LOOK OF PATIDEV'S LOVE MAKING ...AND TRIES TO GO BUT SHLOK ...ONCE AGAIN ...EK BAAR PHIR...DECLARES HIS LOVE ...BY ASKING ASTHA NEVER TO CALL HIM A STRANGER (AS THAT WAS LIKE DEATH TO HIM )...AS ASTHA WAS HIS ...POSSESSIVE SHLOKY'S PERSONAL LOVER ONLY ...AND TELLS ASTHA NEVER TO GO AWAY FROM HIM...EVER AS SHLOK COULDN'T LIVE WITHOUT ASTHA FOR EVEN A MOMENT ...AND ASTHA PROMISES ONLY TO ONCE AGAIN SO TO JYOTI'S BHARAT...AND SO FREES HERSELF FROM SHLOK AND GOES TO OPEN THE DOOR ...
SHLOK NOW CORNERS ASTHA AS ALWAYS WITH HIS PRESENCE AND HEART TOO INTO AN UNESCAPABLE POSITION FROM HIM (AS SHLOK DID TO HER FROM THE BEGINNING ...EVEN IN ASTHA'S DREAMS IN LOVE AND IN HATE TOO..)... ...AS SHLOK WATCHES ASTHA HUNGRILY AND CARESSES ASTHA WITH AN ...OBSSESSIVE CONSTANT NEED AND LOVE FOR ASTHA AND HER ATTENTION ...WITH AN DEEP NEED TO MERGE ASTHA INTO HIM ...AND SO SHLOK ALWAYS TOUCHES AND MAKES LOVE TOO ASTHA ... AS THAT IS HOW SHLOK CAN BE DEEPLY CONNECTED TO ASTHA ...WITH HIS INTIMATE DESIRE AND POSSESSIVE LOVE ...TO GET CLOSER TO ASTHA'S SOUL AND ESSENCE TOO ...WHILE ASTHA SURRENDERS TO SHLOK AS SHE TOO NOW WANTS TO HAVE SHLOK DEEP IN HER BECAUSE SHLOK IS HER SOUL ..AND SO HIS PLACE IS DEEP INSIDE HER ...WHILE HIS PRESENCE IS ALL AROUND ASTHA...LIKE THE THREAD KEEPING THE FLOWERS UNITED AND IN ONE PLACE ...
Astha asking shlok to leave her as she was late in getting with shlok holding astha and smiling at her as now shlok is satisfied at last that astha is back to him with love and surrender as opposing to shlok demanding astha to confess her love by forcibly pinning her to the wall...and astha biting shlok's palm..then and now... With shlok licking the bite...shows shlok felt the same way even then...love for astha...completely.
SHLOK AND ASTHA HAVE THE LUCK TO NOT ONLY BE HUSBAND AND WIFE ...BUT THEY ARE LOVERS AS WELL... A RARE COMBINATION ...FOR INTENSE PLEASURE...AND PERFECT BLISS...WITHIN THEMSELVES. ..IN THEIR HEARTS .
AS A WIFE NEED NOT BE A LOVER ...AND A LOVER NEED NOT BE A WIFE ...LIKE VARAD...SOJAL..
MANSI...LEADING TO UNHAPPINESS...IN LIFE ..
SHLOK HAD TO MAKE ASTHA HERSELF ACCEPT HER LOVE FOR SHLOK BY HERSELF ...TO SHLOK ...AS NOW ASTHA WAS NOT ONLY TAKING ...SHLOK'S LOVE FOR GRANTED ...BUT ASTHA ...ALWAYS FROM THE FIRST DEPENDED ON SHLOK COMPLETELY TO SAVE ...ASTHA ...THEIR LOVE ...AND RELATIONSHIP FROM PROBLEMS ...AS ASTHA KNEW THAT SHLOK LOVED HER VERY MUCH ...AS SHLOK'S ACTIONS HAD PROVED TO ASTHA HIS LOVE FOR ASTHA EVEN THOUGH NOT IN WORDS ...AS SHLOK HAD SAVED ASTHA FROM LIFE THREATENING DANGERS TOO...BY PUTTING HIS LIFE IN DANGER...MANY TIMES. ...BUT ASTHA WHO SENSED SHLOK'S LOVE ..BUT COULDN'T UNDERSTAND IT ...WENT AWAY FROM SHLOK . ..MANY TIMES...AS IN ...REJECTING SHLOK'S ADVANCES ...TRYING TO CANCEL THE MARRAIGE FOR JYOTI BEFORE ...AND FOR SWATI ...TRYING TO DIVORCE SHLOK WHICH SHE DIDN'T WANT ...GOING AWAY FROM HIS ROOM ...UNTILL SHLOK SAVED THEIR RELATIONSHIP BY HOOK OR CROOK ...AND GETTING ASTHA BACK TO HIM EVERYTIME ...FOR LIFETIME .;
From the beginning of their fake love story ...till their true love story ...it was shlok who was the major decision player in saving ashlok and love...from astha and her impulsive and immature acts... as well as from those against their union ...WHEN SHLOK NOT ONLY REALISED THAT ASTHA LOVED HIM TOO ...BUT WAS SCARED OF THE CONSEQUENCES OF DECLARING HER LOVE FOR SHLOK...EVEN THOUGH SHLOK HAD FORCED HER TOO ...BUT WAS UNYEILDING TO SHLOK ... DUE TO SITUATIONS AND MISUNDERSTANDINGS AND FOR HER FAMILY...BUT ASTHA WAS LOOKING COMPLETELY TOWARDS SHLOK EVEN THEN...FOR GUIDANCE TO SOLVE HER PROBLEMS BY HIMSELF ...BY TAKING THE RESPONSIBILITY COMPLETELY ON HIMSELF ...WITHOUT GETTING ASTHA IN TROUBLE AND SO SAVING HER FROM THE CONSEQUENCES ...in her telling him the reasons that she couldn't confess her feelings and love for shlok as well as her actions and words ..which seemed to be ...showing shlok astha's love for him .
As well as clearly if observed astha was asking shlok himself to solve her problems for her love for him ...AND SO SHLOK HIMSELF NOT ONLY DECLARED MARRAIGE TO ASTHA PUBLICALY...BUT HAD TO CONVINCE ASTHA TOO ABOUT HER LOVE FOR SHLOK WHICH SHE HAD MADE OBVIOUS ... BUT WAS NOT EXPRESSING IT...FOR FEAR OF CONSEQUENCES...
THE TERRACE SCENE ...where astha who was being questioned by her parents because of shlok's declaration not once told her parents the truth about shlok and her but instead denied that she didn't know anything ...when she was the one who had told shlok that she wont declare her love for him unless shlok speaks up first about his love ...WHICH HAD SHLOK ANNOUNCING ASHLOK MARRAIGE PUBLICALY AT THE ANNIVESARY EVENT...SO THAT NOBODY COULD GO AGAINST IT HER PARENTS AND ESPECIALLY NOT BABA FOR IMAGE ...AND SO REMOVING THEIR HURDLES...and when shlok had come with , NA, and Anjali to ask astha's hand in marriage ...only to be rejected by them as astha had already rejected it but at NA, insistence for astha's answer by herself ...ASTHA INSTEAD OF TAKING HER OWN DECISION OF SAYING...YES OR NO TO THE MARRAIGE ...LOOKED TOWARDS SHLOK INSTEAD AS IN ASKING HIM WHAT TO DO NOW ...EVEN THEN SHOWING HER DEPENDENCY ON SHLOK ...UNCONSCIOULY TRUSTING SHLOK TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM ...AS ASTHA IN LOVE NOW WANTED SHLOK VERY MUCH ...AND SO SHLOK IMMEDIATELYUNDERSTOOD ASTHA'S DILEMMA...AND SO ASKED TO SPEAK TO ASTHA FIRST ...and then on the terrace astha slaps shlok not for insulting her parents ...but because shlok had not confessed his love to her first ...whereas she was suffering pangs of jealousy and uncertainty of his love in fear of loosing shlok ...but announced it publicaly ...as astha in fear and tears ...not only hit shlok but afterwards... ASTHA UNCONSCIOULY COMPLETELY SURRENDERED AND HUGGED SHLOK AS IF SHE HAD FINALLY COME HOME ...WHERE SHE BELONGED FOR ETERNITY ...AND WAS NOW SAFE IN SHLOK'S ARMS ...AND SHLOK TO HUGGED ASTHA AS IF PROTECTING HER AND HIS LOVE...BUT ALSO KNEW EVEN THEN THAT HE HAD TO TEACH ASTHA ABOUT LIFE MAYBE BY HATE ..INSTEAD OF LOVE ...and when astha asked shlok why he had announced it without expressing his love to her ..SHLOK THEN CONFESSES THE COMPLETE TRUTH OF HIS LOVE FOR ASTHA CLEARLY AS WELL AS ASTHA'S LOVE FOR HIM TOO ...
THAT HE WANTED ASTHA FOR LIFE AS HIS OWN BUT AS HIS LIFE PARTNER AND HIS LOVER ... WHICH SHE WAS NOT UNDERSTANDING IN HER IMMATURITY ...AND SHLOK HAD BECOME HER WAJOOD ... ...AS ASTHA...INSTEAD OF TAKING HER OWN DECISION ... WAS DEPENDING ON SHLOK COMPLETELY TO BECOME SHLOK'S WIFE ...ASTHA SHLOK AGNIHOTRI ...HER PEHACHAN... SHE WANTED VERY MUCH FOR HERSELF ... ..AS SHLOK COULD SEE HER LOVE FOR HIM IN HER EYES ...FACE ...AND HER HEART BEATS...CALLING OUT TO SHLOK TO SAVE HER LOVE FOR HIM AND MAKE ASTHA HIS OWN... ...AND SO SAID IT OUT TO ASTHA CLEARY ..ASTHA'S OWN FEELINGS FOR SHLOK ...ASTHA WAS NOT UNDERSTANDING EXCEPT THAT ASTHA NOT ONLY LOVED AND WANTED SHLOK VERY MUCH...BUT ALSO SURRENDERED TO SHLOK COMPLETELY IN LOVE...BUT NOT UNDERSTANDING SHLOK'S LOVE NEEDS AND HIS GOALS:::::::...instead creating problems for shlok with her immaturity ...AND WANTED SHLOK TO SAVE HER FROM PROBLEMS ...
EVEN THOUGH ASTHA LOVED SHLOK VERY MUCH ...MORE THAN HER LIFE. ...TO WHICH SHLOK WAS SUBMITTING TO ...BUT NOW NEEDED ASTHA TO UNDERSTAND HER LOVE FOR HERSELF. ...SO FROM NOW ON ASTHA WILL UNDERSTAND SHLOK'S LOVE FOR HER AND SO WON'T GO AWAY FROM HIM AGAIN. ...EVER ...WHATEVER THE REASON ...AND BECOME STRONG WITH HER LOVE FOR SHLOK ...
Jyoti too has finally left her past karma behind... And now has gone forward with courage... And accepted her love for sid...as her soul mate... Who seems a perfect contrast to jyoti...and so will always balance their relationship... With love and care...even though may face problems from family and society...BUT LOVE CONQUERS ALL...HOPEFULLY.