Adhithya Sakthivel

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Adhithya Sakthivel

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An Adventurous Journey...

An Adventurous Journey...

9 mins
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As it's heavily raining in the outskirts of Coimbatore, Sundaralingam rushes to his home where he sees his son Akhil enjoying the rain. Unable to control his emotions, he goes and pulls his son to the house.

A few days back, Akhil's mother passed away due to illness and it is Akhil who is taking care of his father. He is a carefree and happy-go-lucky guy, who loves adventure a lot and dislikes the 24x7 routine job, for which he had been so far working for…

He has completed C.A. and B.Com as an inter-course in Coimbatore and had been working in a private company for 8 Lakhs…However, due to stress in the job and prior to disputes, he was thrown out from the company and is now jobless…

Akhil's father notices his upset and says, "Akhil. This is not the end of your life. You have a lot to prove yourself. If this has been gone, search for another place, where you can prove yourself. Do something useful to society, which I use to say to you many times" and go back to sleep.

The next day, Akhil's father doesn't get up from his sleep and he analyzes that, his father died in the sleep and after some days, he decides to search for his job in many companies.

But, everywhere he has been rejected due to his ethical and honest practices. Left with no pennies in his hand, Akhil attempts suicide by jumping into a river near a temple in Perur and a guru in the temple saves him.

He takes him to Thiruvananthapuram Padmanabaswamy temple and saves Akhil by giving him traditional medical treatments through medicinal leaves and plants, which they eat as their daily foods.


After some days, Akhil wakes up and finds himself in the temple and in further, sees the guru chanting Vishnu and Gayathri mantras with his fellow students in the place. After noticing the upset of the guru with the wrong chanting by the students, he chants out the mantras correctly without any errors occurring to it…

"How do you chant this mantra so correctly when my other fellow mates failed to do it in particular?" asked the guru.

"My parents and I use to chant it since childhood, sir. Hence, I chanted it correctly" said Akhil.

The guru is impressed with Akhil and decides to take him as his student deciding to train him in Martial arts and on other aspects. When he asks Akhil regarding this, he accepts since he was happy to learn an adventurous mode of life from now onwards in his life.

However, the guru indeed has another motive behind training Akhil in martial arts, and in order to make Akhil learn his motive(when he learns of the intentions of Akhil), he takes him inside the temples of Padmanabaswamy…

"Akhil…You love adventure, right. Hence, if you have love towards adventure, learn the history of this temple's treasury man" said the Guru and he takes the book that depicts the temple's history and hands it to Akhil…

The books depict the following lines: "Several extant Hindu Texts like the Brahma Literature, Matsya Literature, Varaha Literature, Skanda Literature, Padma Literature, Vayu Literature, Bhagavata Literature and the Mahabharata mention this shrine. The temple has been referred to in the Sangam period of literature between 500 BCE and 300 BCE for several times"

In order to protect this temple, Travancore royal family has played a vital role headed by, Sri Marthanda Varma, who protected the temple by centralizing the whole place and has defeated the Muslim and other invaders from the foreign countries, who came to loot the temple's resources on the intention to destroy Hindu religion.

Since the king is nearing his age of 53 years, he falls ill and when lying in the bed, the king recalls his adventurous life especially in the war and other activities like Martial arts skills. On further, the king before dying claims that, "He and the Padmanabaswamy temple can never be separated and even after his death, the temple will be protected by him through any means" and dies.

Since then, many other rulers from British and other ruling parties in India, after independence tried to take control over the temple, but in vain.

"Now, it's in your hands to protect this temple, my dear Akhil. I know you have the talent to save this temple from any clutches of an evil" said the guru…

It is now where Akhil learns the real problem that the temple faces. Some religious people consisting of Muslims and Christians(50% want their dominance while the rest wants equality and secularism), plans to destroy this temple with some terrorist groups from foreign, who have all been given the training to destroy the temple…

On learning this, the guru prepared a group of armies from the ashram of South Kerala so that, they can indulge in the mission of protecting the temple. Before that, he prepared a group of armies from the regions of South Kerala and before the Guru can start to give his training, he came to the Perur Temple in order to seek the blessings of Lord Murugan and at that time, he witnessed Akhil attempting suicide…

He brought him to Travancore and gave medicines to cure him. After that, he saw him chanting the mantras correctly and properly with an intense, which his armies failed to do. Hence, he had planned to make him the warrior head to protect this spiritual temple, which saves Hindu from evil…

Initially, Akhil refuses because, he doesn't belong to the heir of the Travancore family, and indeed, being a Tamil man, this may affect the minds of Malayalam people in Kerala. But, when being convinced by the guru in regards to secularism, Akhil agrees to protect the temple by following the guidelines of his guru.

Akhil gets trained up in Adimurai, Kalari, and Valari in the schools of South Kerala. In contrast to that, he also gets trained in Swimming and other self-defense practices for three years…During those three years, he learns the brutality of terrorisms and the importance of adventure by reading so many Indian Books, especially on epics.

After three weeks, a group of foreign people consisting of Muslims and Christians, invade India through flight in Cochin and meets some ministers, who gave them the support for destroying the temple, since they are angry that, the temple has not been grabbed by them for the development purposes in Kerala.

These terrorists plan to orchestrate a bomb blast in the temple during the Alpashy festival(Panguni Festival in Tamil), Navaratri, and Laksha deepam festivals. However, this is not possible for them, because the armies of this guru are ready with their physically trained mindset and may kill them with their mental as well as physical fitness…

During the first day festival, when the terrorists tried to implant a bomb in the temple, Akhil, using his skills of war techniques, attacks those foreigners and indeed, kills one of the men using his martial arts skills…


Feared off, those men escape from the place and while going, one of those men notices two army men, resembling the Muslim and Christian religion, and is surprised. Because, even from that religion, they are ready to protect this temple…

"Who are those army men? Why should they stop us? Tell me, you the foolish Minister. Won't you see into all these things?" asked a man from that terrorist group, after coming to the guest house of the minister.

"Even when the minister has tried to do something, it's impossible, sir," said the men, who witnessed those two men.

"Why are you saying like that?" asked the terrorist.

"That's because India is a secular country. Muslims, Christians, and Hindus are united even though the form of this temple" said that terrorist.

"Did you saw anything that's related to your quote?" asked the terrorist.

"Yes. Two of them were Muslim and Christian in that army, who attacked us" said the terrorist.

"Any clues?" asked the terrorist.

"I saw the chain, that usually a Muslim and Christian use to wear. Hence, maybe our plan will be a failure, brother" said the terrorist.

Angered, the terrorist brutally attacks and kills his henchman saying, "If I am failed in the plan of destroying that temple, then this whole country will turn into a graveyard"

"Minister. Ask our men to kidnap a group of people from Kerala in order to fear off those army men. In further, a video should also be shown regarding that. Faster" said the terrorist and the minister agrees…

Some people from Kannur, Palakkad, Cochin, Kollam, and Thrissur have been kidnapped by the terrorists and they are held captive in the Padmanabaswamy temple. One of the terrorist quotes, "If anyone tried to save this temple, then we will press this button, which will blast down the temple as well as these people"

Threatened, Akhil now makes a tactful plan and kidnaps the head of those terrorists, when he comes out from the temple and ties him up into a secluded place. Now, he shows a video which, shows the terrorist being beaten up by their own religious community and in further, tells those groups that, "They can never destroy this temple as well as India because we are all united at any point of difficulties"

Hearing these out of guilt, the terrorists deactivates the bomb of the temple and the people. In further, they apologize for their mistakes. Now, the head tells Akhil, "Hey! You Hindu. It's not enough to change these guys alone. Like them, there too come thousands like them and me. What will your country do at that time or will this temple bear such invaders?"

"If you are all Thousands, then we are all Lakhs man. Will your invaders sustain such armies?" asked Akhil and he exits from the place after which, the terrorist notes down the bomb implanted in his body and after some time, it explodes, killing him…

Akhil now recalls the events with the head of that terrorist group. While the terrorist was unconscious, he has implanted the bomb all over his body…

Many people thanks the guru and Akhil for their efforts in saving the temple from the clutches of evils and further, many see Akhil as the reincarnation of Marthanda Varma, who too formed as a barrier and protected this temple, till his death.

Some days after, Akhil thanks the guru for making him realizing the real adventure in his life, and in contrast, this travel had made him more adventurous…

When Akhil asked the name of Guru, he reveals that, "his name is Padmanabaswamy" after which Akhil realizes that, "God will help humans through different avatars"

Now, Akhil and his group of armies are given yet another mission by the guru according to which, they have to protect the famous Badrinath Temple in Varanasi, thus Akhil again gets ready to feel the journey of adventure…


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