#akshara

Okay so my region is called Obsia.

The region is based on India because I'm Indian

There are four rivals; Samir, Arianne, Kiran, and Pédro

Pédro moved to Obsia from Paldea and started his journey alongside Akshara, the Player character.

And Kiran, Professor Banyan's assistant.

Arianne is a former hex maniac now but catcher with an Obsian Spinarak(Bug/Ghost) as their ace.

And Samir is a grunt-turned-admin for the evil team, Team Revival

The Professor is Professor Banyan, more spoilers about him will drop later

Team Revival wants to restore Obsia to its former glory by any means necessary and want things to return to their old ways

The Admins are:

Louis: A scientist who originally joined to make ends meet and then essentially got drunk with power. His ace is an Arctovish

Samir: One of the rivals, his Ace is an Arctozolt

JJ/Jenny: An corrupt Police Officer working for the team who got high up solely by misusing her power, her Ace is a Dracozolt.

Annie: A mysterious woman and the strongest of the four admins, her Ace is a Dracovish.

The Gym Leaders are

Zoë: A burnt out gifted kid who specialises in Ghost Types

Anders: A street vendor who specialises in Dark Types

Maya: An archery prodigy who specialises in Grass Types

Mariana: A lifeguard who specialises in Water Types

Beladonna: An sweet elderly lady who specialises in Poison Types

Suraj: A biker who specialises in Fire Types

Nicky: A theme park nightguard who specialises in Fairy Types

Darius: A goldsmith who specialises in Steel types

The Elite Four are

Landon: Ground Types

Reyna: Normal Types

Marlene(Arianne's aunt): Psychic Types

And the fourth one, who's a surprise for now!

The champion is Zerith, a Flying Type expert that's as useless as he is hot.

And the Champion

Is someone calling out a female lead’s sacrifice. YES! I mean ofc Abhi is a bit of an ass as the way he went about it but FINALLY it felt nice to watch someone going:

“WHAT IS THE USE OF YOUR SACRIFICE AND THIS INTERNAL NEED OF BEING GREAT WHEN THIS SACRIFICE HAS RUINED EVERYTHING!”

And the reason why I love it because I am exhausted of watching female leads being lauded for having “kept quiet” about a secret that ideally should’ve been revealed or “making sacrifices” with everyone cheering them on when that sacrifice actually ruins lives for a lot of people. 

No. Keeping quiet and sacrifices are far too romanticized. They are NOT worth it. The consequence of the actions determine the worth of the sacrifice! 

And ofc, while making the decision to keep quiet or sacrifice you aren’t aware of how this works out - but what matters is when you’ve seen the ultimate result of your actions - YOU NEED TO REFLECT. 

Lol I know I’m expecting a LOT from Indian television (like the show doesn’t even put the blame on Akshara but paint that Aarohi and Abhi are being numbskulls for asking why she went on sacrificing) - but hey, when Abhi went that he hated Akshara sacrificing her love because her sister also loved the same guy (and her sacrificing it by denying that she ever loved him), that made sense. 

HOW DID I NOT GET A NOTIF FOR THIS?!?!?!

I'M SO SORRY ANYWAY

“The one imperishable which is in the Heart at all times is self-luminous. How to write it?”

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EKAM AKSHARAM - THE ONE LETTER AND THE ONE IMPERISHABLE

Letter 62, 18th August, 1946

A few days ago some Gujaratis who had come from Bombay purchased some Ashram books and Bhagavan’s photos and showing them to Bhagavan, requested him to write his name on the books. “What name should I write?” asked Bhagavan. “Your name,” said they. “What name have I?” said Bhagavan. When they said, “Your name is Ramana Maharshi, is it not?” Bhagavan said smilingly, “Somebody said so. Really what is a name or a native place for me? I could write only if I had a name.” The Gujaratis went away quietly without saying anything further.

In January 1945, you remember that you sent your book on Banking with a request that Bhagavan might be pleased to write in it the word ‘OM’ or ‘SRI’ and return it to you, and Bhagavan declined to do so. Instead, he gave me a piece of paper, on which he wrote a Telugu translation of a verse that he had written long back in Tamil when Somasundaraswami made a similar request. When I sent that slip of paper to you, you took it as an upadesa, a precept from Bhagavan, and were overjoyed. Subsequently, he made some slight alterations therein. Later on Bhagavan translated it into Sanskrit as a sloka at the request of Muruganar [...]. It means: 

“The one imperishable which is in the Heart at all times is self-luminous. How to write it?”

I was reminded of all this when the Gujaratis made a similar request today and got a refusal.

About ten months ago, Pantu Lakshminarayana Sastri, Telugu Pandit, Maharajah’s College, Vizianagaram, came here. After praising Bhagavan with verses composed extempore, he appealed to Bhagavan thus: “Please let me have something to commemorate this event and bless this poor soul.” “What shall I give?” asked Bhagavan. “Anything you please; just an aksharam (letter) by way of upadesa,” he said. Bhagavan said, “How can I give that which is ‘akshara’?” and so saying he looked at me. I said, “It will perhaps do if you tell him about the sloka Ekamaksharam.” Sastri asked, “What is that sloka?” I read out that sloka. “Where is that dwipada?” asked Bhagavan [1]. I read out that too. Sastri was overjoyed as if he had got a great treasure, and copied both the sloka and the dwipada. When I told him about the circumstances under which those two were written, he felt very happy and went away after bowing before Bhagavan. I remembered all this when Bhagavan was saying to the Gujaratis, “What is a name or a native place for me?” Not only this. I was reminded of a song which mother used to sing while engaged in her domestic work, the meaning of which is somewhat as follows:  

 “Ramanamam is the wide universe which has no name or body or work. It has a lustre surpassing the moon, the sun and the fire.”

Ramana’s name also is just like that! 

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Letters from Sri Ramanasramam, by Suri Nagamma (pdf)

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[1] Dwipada: Bhagavan is meaning the Telugu version of the couplet

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🕉️  Refer also to Letter 28 and Letter 79

“Ramanamam is the wide universe which has no name or body or work. It has a lustre surpassing the moon, the sun and the fire.”

dude you're definitely the baby of our group pls im older than you 👀

Stfu