Introduction In the early chapters of the Adi Parva , a profound tale unfolds—one that reveals the complexities of duty, truth, and consequence. This is the story of Agni, the fire god, and the curse that altered his divine role. Bhrigu Muni, one of the revered sages and the mind-born son of Brahma, had a wife named Puloma. She was radiant, graceful, and deeply cherished by Bhrigu. Yet her past held danger—before marrying Bhrigu, Puloma had been promised to a rakshasa (a powerful demon), who still longed to claim her. The sage and Puloma lived peacefully in their forest hermitage, far from the world. One day, while Puloma was pregnant, the rakshasa arrived at the hermitage with a burning desire to reclaim her. But he needed confirmation—was this truly Puloma, the one promised to him? Agni, the omnipresent fire god, resided in the hermitage in the form of the sacred fire used for rituals. The rakshasa questioned him, and Agni, who stood for truth and purity, could not lie. He affirmed h...
Introduction “I am the wisest man on earth because I know one thing that I know nothing”. These mindful words are of Socrates. He is one of the most popular philosophers of all time. He sacrificed his life for humanity without even thinking twice. Socrates had not written his biography but we can know about him by reading books of his student, Plato. He was from a very poor family and his father was a sculptor. He fought for his nation as a young army man. Many times during the war he used to go to a lonely place and think for several hours. When he didn’t like army and sculptor work then he opened his own school where young students used to ask a wide variety of questions from him. Socrates was a very open-minded person but at that time people of Athens used to follow dogmatic rules. Due to his revolutionary ideas, he gained the attention of many other philosophers but few of them became his enemies. Death of Socrates The people of Athens were very conservative and there was great tur...