Jambavanta, how can we lose hope
as long as Hanuman is with us?
[Chaupai playing]
Hail Shri Rama!
[Chaupai playing]
- Hail Shri Rama! - Hail Shri Rama!
Trijata, didn't I tell you
my son Hanuman
is a troubleshooter?
Problems can't affect my Shri Rama
in his presence.
- Hail Shri Rama! - Hail Shri Rama!
Impossible!
[dramatic music playing]
[intriguing music plays]
"Ravana! Ravana!"
"O, Lord! Whatever sins I have committed..."
"Shri Mahadeva Shambhu!"
O, Chandrachuda!
If I, Your servant,
made a mistake,
I apologise to You!
If I, Ravana,
considered anyone superior than myself,
it's only You.
I have only considered You
to be my God.
I revered You wholeheartedly.
You know well
that You don't have a bigger devotee than me, Ravana,
in this world!
Neither deities nor asuras.
Nobody can revere You the way I do!
I'm not being arrogant. It's my confidence.
However, Trilochana, You have been biased against me.
I'm aware
that obtaining blessings for being victorious isn't easy.
If You wanted to bless me with victory,
You would have blessed me long ago.
You wouldn't have stopped me from picking up
the Pinaka at Sita's 'svayamvara'!
You wouldn't have snatched Your Chandrahasa from me.
[lightning crackling]
You wouldn't have compelled Meghanada
to stop me from going into the battlefield!
You wouldn't have let my 'yajna' be disrupted.
Today, Your devotee
will enter the battlefield alone
against Rama and his monkey army!
All alone!
But today, Your Ravana will prove
that I, Dashanan,
can act like Dashanan without Shiva's boon!
I don't believe in any human or an avatar of Narayana!
I promise You
that after today's war,
this world won't forget Ravana's name!
[thunder rumbling]
[bell clanging]
Today's war is not about victory and defeat,
or life and death!
It's about self-respect!
It's about Lanka,
for which I did penance for thousands of years!
It's about the rakshasa clan,
whose upliftment I have been striving for!
I gave them the victory mantra, "we protect"!
It's a mantra which fills every rakshasa
with confidence.
Today, I'll fight
to protect that mantra.
I'll kill all my enemies,
light their pyre,
and return with their ashes tomorrow!
I'll do Your 'bhasma aarti' with it!
I'll prove
that "I am the only one. There is no other like me."
"Neither in the past nor in the future."
Hail Mahadeva!
"Om!"
Mahadeva, why did You stop?
Rama and Ravana are ready to confront each other.
Why did You take a break now?
Goddess, I took a break
because I want to narrate
another story now.
No, Mahadeva.
Whenever Rama's story takes an interesting turn,
You change the topic.
To ensure
we don't go astray,
we should stop at each turn
and check all directions.
We must proceed only after that.
You will narrate the story come what may.
So please go ahead.
Please listen.
It's the prelude to the story
of my ardent devotee, Ravana, and Shri Rama's battle.
It's the story of the boons given to Narayana's two devotees.
At the beginning of Satya Yuga,
Narayana's two great devotees were born.
"Om! I bow down to Narayana."
'The sons of Varuna's son, Kali,'
'and Agni's daughter...,'
'Jaya and Vijaya.'
'Both of them performed tough austerities'
'to appease Shri Hari Narayana.'
'They endured many difficulties'
'and adversities for years.'
'Their dedication'
'reached the zenith'
'of devotion and endurance.'
"Om! I bow down to Narayana."
[devotional music playing]
"Om! I bow down to Narayana."
[conch-shell playing]
I feel overjoyed
to see Jaya and Vijaya's selfless devotion,
tough austerity, and unmatched reverence
for You.
But, Narayana,
why are they performing austerities?
What is their wish?
"Om! I bow down to Narayana."
'Jaya and Vijaya, please wake up.'
- [conch-shell playing] - [mantra chanting]
[mantra chanting]
Lord! Our Narayana!
[mantra chanting]
Jaya and Vijaya,
I'm appeased by your faith and tough austerities.
Please ask.
What boons do both of you want?
I'll give you
whatever you ask for!
Lord, one doesn't need anything
more than a glimpse of You.
Lord, all our wishes are fulfilled as You are appeased.
I'll have to give you the result of your karma.
If You want to give us a boon,
please grant us the boon
of revering You for eternity.
Please bless us with the boon of lying at Your feet.
Lord, grant us the boon of eternal devotion to You,
for we feel blessed by even a single glimpse of You.
Jaya and Vijaya, devotion isn't so easy.
One experiences happiness
as well as grief.
One experiences pious faith
and testing times too.
Lord, I, Your devotee,
am ready to be tested
to be close to You.
Please give us this boon.
Yes, Lord.
Please grant us a boon that we remain devoted to You
and see You.
Granted!
Henceforth, both of You will guard Vaikuntha.
Both of you will always stay
near me.
Lord, we have attained immortality
after getting this boon.
[devotional song playing]
'Jaya and Vijaya'
'were blessed and adored'
'by Narayana.'
'Very soon, both of them became favourites'
'of Lakshmi and Narayana.'
'Both of them became the gatekeepers'
'of the zenith of devotion and purity, Vaikuntha.'
'However, as Narayana said'
'devotion must undergo tests.'
'The D-Day arrived.'
[exhilarating music playing]
Jaya and Vijaya, Goddess and I will be discussing something.
We shouldn't be disturbed.
- As you say, Lord! - As you say, Lord!
[sombre music playing]
[ethereal music playing]
[Sanskrit mantra chanting]
[suspenseful music playing]
'Unfortunately or due to karma's effect,'
'Brahma's 'manasputra' Sanatkumara'
'went to meet Narayana.'
Stop right there!
'Jaya and Vijaya didn't know'
'that they had stopped'
'Sanatkumara and not an ordinary child.'
'They had the boon of traversing the entire earth unrestricted.'
- We, Sanatkumaras, greet you! - We, Sanatkumaras, greet you!
Vaikuntha's gatekeepers, Jaya and Vijaya,
also greet you.
We want to meet Narayana.
That's impossible.
By Lord's order, nobody can enter Vaikuntha now.
Vaikuntha has never been closed for Lord Vishnu's devotees to date.
How come this sudden change?
It's our Lord's order
that He and Mother want privacy.
He doesn't want to be disturbed.
We won't disturb them.
We just wish to see them.
We'll be back in a jiffy after seeing them without any disturbance.
It seems you didn't hear us properly, child.
As I said, our Lord is resting.
It seems you aren't aware of the rules of the universe.
If God closes His eyes,
who will understand the pain of this world?
Who will stop small mishaps?
We don't want to argue with you all.
You can't enter Vaikuntha right now.
Please don't waste our time.
Please leave
and come back some other time.
Please don't turn down the devotees' requests. Please let us go.
Narayana adores us.
He won't be upset with you.
It's just a matter of seconds.
We'll be back in a jiffy.
- Please let us go! - Please let us go!
Please let us go!
We want to see Lord.
We want to meet Him.
Look, children.
Don't be difficult.
We are talking to you lovingly because you are children,
but you all don't seem to relent.
Please go back or else...
What?
Will you hinder inhalation and exhalation?
Will you stop the sun from radiating light?
Will you stop a devotee from meeting his God?
Will you make the impossible possible?
You can't do that.
It seems you won't relent easily.
It seems we need to show
the power of the gatekeepers of Vaikuntha to these children.
Can you see this mace?
Please leave.
Otherwise, we'll forget about your size and age,
and punish you.
You have crossed the line!
God exists because of the devotee.
If a devotee and God get separated,
the universe will be destroyed.
You will be destroyed.
Look, Vijaya.
These little kids
are talking about three lokas.
You are lecturing us, Jaya and Vijaya, about devotion!
We had reached the zenith of devotion.
It seems we need to discipline them.
Children,
please leave before I'm forced
to attack you with my weapon.
Quiet! This is the limit!
Both of you deserve to be punished.
[conch-shell playing]
Vaikuntha is a place where there is no negativity.
There is no place
for unrighteous and arrogant people like you in Vaikuntha!
The two of you don't deserve to stay here.
You deserve the strictest punishment.
We, Brahma's sons, Sanatkumaras, curse the two of you
that henceforth, you'll stay in 'mrityuloka'.
The devotees you kept away from God
will estrange you from Him forever!
You will yearn to see your God!
[conch-shell playing]
- [Sanskrit mantra chanting] - [thunder cracking]
[Sanskrit mantra chanting]
Please forgive us.
We made a grave mistake.
We didn't know
that you all were Brahma's sons.
We joked with you
as we mistook you for children.
You may kill us
if you want.
But please don't curse us to get separated from our Lord.
[conch-shell playing]
- I bow down to Narayana! - I bow down to Narayana!
Sanatkumaras,
welcome to Vaikuntha.
Lord, please help us.
Lord, please free us
from this curse of getting estranged from You.
Lord, we made a mistake, but it's too big a punishment.
We were simply fulfilling our duty.
Lord, we were following Your order.
Though we made a mistake,
we can't be punished so severely.
When one's responsibility is big,
even a small mistake can have a serious impact.
Because a person with a big responsibility
inspires the world.
You didn't make just one mistake.
You insulted Sanatkumaras, mistaking them for ordinary children.
Children could be ordinary or extraordinary,
they deserve love.
Your second mistake was your arrogance.
It's Vaikuntha.
Arrogance leads to negativity.
Your third mistake
is that both of you literally followed my order.
You didn't understand it properly.
Jaya and Vijaya, informing and disturbing aren't the same things.
You could have respectfully asked them to wait
and informed me.
Your fourth and biggest mistake.
Both of you are my devotees.
Then how could you forget
that the relationship between a devotee and God
is the simplest relationship in the world?
Whenever a devotee remembers Him,
God comes to them.
Whenever a devotee wishes to see God, He will appear before them.
Anyone who hinders this relationship
will be punished.
- [conch-shell playing] - [intense music plays]
Children, Jaya and Vijaya are my gatekeepers.
I apologise to you
for their disrespectful behaviour.
No, Lord. You shouldn't apologise.
You aren't the culprit.
Children, I'm in the wrong.
A servant's karma brings fame or dishonour to his lord.
They bear the consequences of the servant's sins and virtues.
So I'll be equally responsible for my servant's mistake.
If they didn't follow my order properly,
I'm also at fault.
Because I failed to convey my order properly.
We also made a mistake.
We weren't patient, even though we are Brahma's sons.
We were overcome by anger.
So, Sanatkumara, please forgive us.
You may punish us,
but please retract your curse.
Please don't make us suffer by distancing us from our Lord.
Jaya, a bow shot from an arrow and the curse of saints
can't be reversed.
Lord, please don't distance us from You.
Lord, we performed tough penance to reach this stage.
You look after the entire world. Please give us a solution.
Please save us.
[dramatic music playing]
The curse of Sanatkumaras can't be reversed.
However, we can go easy on you because of your devotion.
There is a way to punish you
without reversing the curse given by Sanatkumaras.
Lord, please tell us.
Please tell us quickly.
You have two options.
Either live in 'mrityuloka' as my devotees for seven lives,
or be my enemy
for the next three lives.
Only then will you be able to return to Vaikuntha.
The choice is yours.
[dramatic music playing]