Yayati Response

Response #4 Yayati was a peculiar story that I’ve encountered so far in this book, it doesn’t talk about war nor does it talk about women wanting to have freedom. Instead Yayati talks about how Yayati, Prince of ruling and fighting class, gets married, but gets punished due to this actions. To give a little background about this story; gods would always lose to demons led by Indra and the Asuras (anti gods). One difference between gods and demons is that once a god gets killed, a god will automatically die. However, when a demon gets killed the demon gets revived quickly. It frustrated many gods. This is how Yayati starts to come along. In order for the gods to destroy the demons, the gods discovered the secret of their enemies: demons survived because they were to protected and guided by
She proposed to Yayati that he should marry her since he already had grasped her hand in the well, but he gives the same excuse again. So Devayani requested to her father that Yayati should her husband. Sukracharya gave Yayati his blessings, but if Yayati talks to Sarmishta he will get punished. Years past and Devayani was born with a child. This is where it gets exciting, Sarmishta felt lonely and jealous that Devayani has a child. So she confessed to Yayati that she’s been in love with him and what’s more ironic was that Yayati confessed that the moment he saw her, he was already in love with her. Yayati is mischievous since Yayati and Sarmishta had an affair together. As time passed, Yayati had a second son with Devayani, soon Devayani starts to feel inebriated since she’s been drinking Yayati’s strange drink. Devayani starts to feel slumber and fails to recognize Yayati. Since Devayani was inebriated, Yayati and Sarmishta secretly went in the Elysium and now Sarmishta have three sons. Soon Devayani passed the phase of inebriation and she founds out that Sarmishta has three sons with