Introduction
The Secret of the Nagas is a book ( novel ) of Amish Tripathi. Amish Tripathi is an Indian diplomat, columnist, and author. He is known for his book series The Shiva trilogy and Ram chandra series. The Secret of the Nagas is a fiction genre book. A mythology, Fantasy, mythical fiction. The book is based on the main character named Shiva. Shiva is one of the three major deities of Hinduism along with Brahma and Vishnu. This book shows how the fate and karma of a man make him the God of gods. Have you read the first part of the Shiva trilogy, The Immortals of Meluha? If not, go for it first, otherwise you will not understand the true story of Nagas. So let’s turn on again. (The Secret of the Nagas Summary & Review)
Summary
As the name of the book itself has mentioned the Secret, similarly the coming characters of the book is also a secret and mystery.
The story begins from where it ended, where Naga is attacked the Shiva and Sati. But Naga has to run away from him due to Shiva being an amazing fighter. Shiva runs after that Naga but that Naga manages to escape by stealing his horse from a person. In return, that Naga has thrown a lot of gold coins to the person. When Shiva sees that, he takes one coin and gives it all to the other person and returns to Sati. Sati gets hurt by Naga, seeing that Shiva takes Sati to Ayurvati where they find out that Sati is fine.
Search of nagas
After this accident, Shiva starts hating Nagas and wishes to destroy the Naga species. He then learns that Naga’s direct subjugation is from the Brangha kingdom. Then they finds some people from Brangha are in Kashi, whose head name is Devdas, then immediately Shiva leaves for Kashi with his companions.
On hearing the news of Shiva coming to Kashi, the King of Kashi performs a yajna. At the same time they find out that the people of Brangah have been caught by the people of Kashi, Because they have started killing peacocks, the peacock which is the most loved bird of Lord Rudra and is deprived of dying. Parvateshwar, Bhagiratha and some of his soldiers go to find the same thing, where Parvateshwar gets seriously injured. They find out that there is an epidemic in the Brangha state and they believe that the disease can be cured by peacock blood.
Kartikeya
Ayurvati says that seeing Parvateshwar’s wound, he will no longer be able to survive. But Devdas’s ointment saves Parvateshwar’s life. Looking at that ointment, Ayushwati understands that this ointment belongs to the Naga people.
At the end of the previous book, we learn that Sati is pregnant and now Shiva and Sati agree to give birth to their child in Kashi. But Ayurvati says that there can be trouble at birth, which will provide danger to the child. To find a solution to this, Shiva goes to the temple of Kashi and Vasudev of the gives a medicine to Shiva which is applied on the stomach of Sati and then she gives birth to her son.
Because Kritika is the most closest friend to Sati and she always stays with Sati, in every circumstance, Shiva names his son after Kritika. And Shiva names his son Kartikeya. Ayurvati tells Shiva that the medicine is a Naga medicine, then Shiva goes back to Vasudev and says that you too are with Nagas, but no answer comes out.
Parshuram
Shiva meets Parashurama in search of Nagas, Later, Parashurama tells his story to Shiva and tells the story of Nagas and says that Nagas are a good people, they never kill anyone unnecessarily. Upon hearing Parashurama, Shiva tells Parvateshwar to go back and all go back to Kashi.
Mystery of attack
The tigers are always attacked at a distance from Kashi. Sati goes with some soldiers to save them, but more soldiers die from the tiger attack. Sati is also surrounded by tigers and then some Nagas come and kill the tigers. There is also the queen of Nagas. Sati is shocked to see the queen as she is the twin sister of Sati. But her color is black. She tells a Naga to kill her and says that she had born and left you. Sati gets shocked on hearing this. And that is the reason of Sati being attacked again and again.
Sati is told that in the previous book, Sati’s son is born dead and Sati does not even know that she has any other sister. She tells this to her son, whose name is Ganesh and he understands that Sati is telling the truth. She takes her son and sister to Kashi where they meet Shiva.
The queen of Naga, whose name is Kali. Shiva is very happy to meet her. But when he sees Ganesha, he turns red with anger as he recognizes that he is the one who killed Brahaspati. On the second day, Kashi gets attacked by tigers and Ganesh gets injured while saving Karthikeya, then Shiva allows him to stay in Kashi for a few more days.
Journey to panchwati
After staying with Kali for a few days, Shiva asks Kali about the secret of the Nagas, then Kali says that you have to come with us to Panchvati to know the secret. Then everyone leaves for Panchwati, Kali and Ganesh are going to take everyone, but also make sure that no one remembers the way to go to Panchwati.
After reaching Panchavati, and resting for some time, Shiva asks Kali about the secret, then Kali takes Shiva to a school. Shiva feels that the secret must have been written in a book but nothing happens like that. After what Shiva sees, he get shocked and surprised. He sees brahaspati teaching childrens.
And in this suspense, the book ends, we will find out the story in the next book.
Some quotes we all need to know.
The opposite of love is not hate. Hate is just love gone bad. The actual opposite of love is apathy. When you don’t care a damn as to what happens to the other person.
Amish Tripathi
The Secret of the Nagas
Truth doesn’t have to be liked. It only has to be spoken. Speak it out. The truth may hurt you, but it will set you free.
Amish Tripathi
The Secret of the Nagas
Everything in the world is maya, an illusion. The ultimate truth one has to realise is that we actually need nothing. Because to possess an illusion is as good as possessing nothing.
Amish Tripathi
The Secret of the Nagas
Nobody is good or bad. They are either strong or weak. Strong people stick to their morals, no matter what the trials and tribulations. Weak people, many a times, do not even realise how low they have fallen.
Amish Tripathi
The Secret of the Nagas
There is a god in every single one of us. And there is evil in every single one of us. The true battle between good and evil is fought within.
Amish Tripathi
The Secret of the Nagas
Insight/Review
The story in the book is carried forward from where it was left. And what is the evil still going on. Many new characters have been included in the story, making the story even more interesting and mysterious.
The description of the words should be praised separately because now you will not be able to stop yourself from drowning in it. As if you are also a part of this story and you are also involved in his journey with Shiva. When it comes to journey, the author has presented the journey from Kashi to Panchavati in a very amazing and praiseworthy way.
As we had also said in the previous book that this book is different in all the things that we had heard about Shiva himself. But the meaning of the story is the same. the teachings or lesson of the book are the same that we always read and understand, but Amish has told it in a new way. It is written in the Gita that, truth is one, intelligent people tell it differently. (Ekam Sat Vipra Bahudha Vadanti).
There are many small things which have a very deep meaning. Many times you will see the words of Wisdom, in many places you will see infinite anger, on many times you will also see infinite love and sorrow. This book is a combination of grief, anger, hurt, guilt and truth.
The language style of the book was sweet and simple. The words were easy to understand. No hard words to see. Talking about character development, There is a lot and lots of character in the book, Like I said before, it happens that due to more character the book gets buried somewhere. I have never seen such thing here. Rather, all the characters in the book were playing their roles well. All characters get their time and space to grow. Which is a very good thing. Truly, a very impressive book.
Rating
4.5/5
Conclusion
In the whole trilogy it has been told what is evil. And speaking of this book, in this it has been told that it is evil to be or look different from others, are those peoples are bad who are different from us. The book takes you through the journey of Shiva who is in search of truth and answers to some essential questions. Along the way, they face strange challenges and extraordinary revelations that, over time, provide a sense of events. It was also seen that evil is not what it looked like.
Hope many people would read this book, a must read book in anyone’s list
Strongly recommend Everyone to read this wonderful book
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ABOUT THE Author
Amish Tripathi is an Indian diplomat, columnist, and author. He is the Director of the Nehru Centre in London. He is known for his book series The Shiva trilogy and Ram chandra series.
