Meera looked at her hands. She thought of her son, Rahul, who had stopped asking for iPads and started asking for stories about his grandfather. "The infection of sorrow," she whispered, "is being cured by the infection of love." "Not love," Shukla Master corrected. "Dharma. Love is an emotion; it comes and goes. Dharma is the nature of the thing. Sugar is sweet; that is its dharma. Fire is hot; that is its dharma. The human soul is connected; that is its dharma. We are simply returning to our nature." Outside, the noise of the city continued—the honking, the construction, the rush. But inside the room, and inside thousands of rooms across the city, a quiet revolution had begun. It wasn’t televised. It wasn’t sponsored. It was just people putting down their phones, looking at the person next to them, and realizing: I am not an island. I am a root. And I am thirsty. ________________________________________ Key Concepts Covered in Narrative: 1. De-Influencing & Authenticity. 2. Cellular/Genetic Memory (Sanskriti) and somatic dissonance (anxiety). 3. The viral nature of truth and permission. 4. Dharma vs emotion.