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Well Akshobhya, Aniruddh, Ariadne, Meenakshi and Lakshman had arrived. Also as the deities requested, their celestial devotees disguised themselves.
"Hii Prabhu!! We're here!!" Lakshman said and then touched his feet. "Give me ashirvad."
"My ashirvad is always with you, Laksh." Vishnu smiled. "Come in, dear. And come in fellow dear friends."
"What's up Bholenath? Pranam." Aniruddh clasped his hands when he walked in. "Bholenath, Meenakshi almost lost us. I thought I was being kidnapped. Save me from this pagli."
"Haha." Shiva chuckled.
"Mahadev, don't listen to him. He have gotten a PhD for drama. And then crowned king of melodrama." Meenakshi said. "Well yeaa, I confess that I missed the turnoff, and ended up on the other side of town. But it's human error."
"You two. What to do with you." Shiva teased them. "But did Akshobhya, Ariadne and Lakshman come with you?"
"Of course! Why not! They're our friends." Meenakshi sniled.
"Yea Prabhu. We have been through a lot together, and also hung on to our faiths and beliefs together. While we were kidnapped."
"We have learnt how to comfort each other. And we have also learnt about courage." Meenakshi added.
"That's how I want mankind to be. To be together, despite their differences." Shiva said. "You all will soon lead mankind in the right way."
"Hi lord." Ariadne greeted Jesus. "Finally I have reached!"
"Hmm. It seemed like Meenakshi was carrying you somewhere else!"
"Haha, seems so, lord." Ariadne laughed. "You know, we're friends now. Ever since."
"Ever since she had helped me regain consciousness." Ariadne said.
"Friendship is such a beautiful thing." Jesus remarked.
"She showed me a brown bead bracelet called rudraksh. And said that it means eyes of Rudra. But lord, who's Rudra? Is his eyes really brown like this?"
"I'll show you who's Rudra, Thygatéra." Jesus insists. "Mahadev, my daughter wants to see Rudra."
"Well that's me." Shiva confronted them. "I am Rudra."
"Waw! Perfect match, and same shade of brown. Your eyes are beautiful." Ariadne remarked
On the other side, Buddha had happily greeted Akshobhya.
"I'm glad you can come, dear." Buddha said.
"I can never refuse such a great master like you." Akshobhya replied.
"Akshu, you don't need to be formal." Buddha suggests. "Let's hang out and talk."
"As you say."
"Laksh, I would like to show you my friend." Vishnu went to introduce Narad. "He's also very dear to me."
"Narayan Narayan! I'm Nar-- I mean, Brahmaputra. But people call me Brahma for short." Narad said.
"Nice to meet you. Which collage you go too?" Lakshman asks.
"The mind." Brahma replied.
"O..ok. Who's your teacher?"
"Thought." Brahma replied.
"Any qualifications yet? Like certificates?"
"Fruits of action." Brahma said.
"Strange." Lakshman thought. "Are you also Hari devotee?"
"Lord Vishnu is my breath." Brahma replied.
"Oh me too. And Vasudev is lord Vishnu himself." Lakshman referred to Vishnu who was standing next to him.
"Yes dear, Vasudev is another name for my lord. Hai Nath Narayan Vasudeva."
"Brahma, your friend is Vishnu Himself."
"Everyone has Hari in them. Even in my Vasudev." Braham concluded.
"How did it do, Prabhu." Narad asked through his mind. "To disguise my identity."
"Perfect dear." Vishnu replied.
"Akshobhya, this is my friend Videhamuni." Buddha introduced.
"May Buddha bless you." Videhamuni said.
"You look like a young monk."
"Yea I am. But I'm not that young. The Buddha doesn't permit me to lie." Videhamuni replied. "I'm milleniums of age."
"Huh?! Strange."
"The aging process stops when you reach Nirvana." Videhamuni added.
"You have reached enlightenment and still on earth?" He asked.
"Tatagatagarbha's Will." Videhamuni smiled. "Maybe I have to stay longer to uphold Dharma, Sangha and Buddha."
"You're so mysterious."
Moreover in this introduction, Ariadne had her eyes on Michael, who was busy admiring Jesus' pet lamb.
"Aw! The lord is really the Shephard. Hence no one will ever want. This lamb had been lead to something better than green pastures." Michael smiled. "What a provider God."
"He's strange." Ariadne thought. "And he's speaking to himself."
"Btw, I have realised that David was such a skilled writer." Michael concludes.
"Daughter, this is Miguel. He's very kindhearted, and also fearless." Jesus introduced.
"Ohh."
"Hi dear." Miguel looked up.
"Hi. Were you speaking to yourself?"
"No dear. I was filling His courts with praises, as they say."
"Whose?"
"Don't worry." Miguel chuckled.
"Do you know Rafaai's true self." Ariadne asked.
"Not only know, but serve. Yea, he's my role model" Miguel smiled again.
"Whew!" Ariadne exclaimed.
"Ok let's start with some normal Pictionary." Shiva suggests. "With
no divine capabilities."
"Yea. Also it's random Pictionary this time."
"Narayan Narayan!"
"Other than this. There are snacks on the table. So please relish them to your enjoyment." Buddha adds.
"Lord. I'm ok with asking for Biksha. You didn't need to go through all this preparations." Videhamuni added.
"Anand." Buddha whispered. "Don't call me lord in front of them."
"Sure."
"You all, I had made last minute kheer. So help yourselves after." Vishnu smiled.
Thereafter, they made teams! Vishnu, Brahmaputra and Lakshman was one team, then Akshobhya, Buddha and Videhamuni. All followed by Shiva, Meenakshi and Aniruddh and Jesus, Ariadne and Miguel.
"So which group is going first?" Meenakshi asked.
"The one who gets 6 first." Buddha adds. "You know, we have always tied in this game."
"No one had lost and we all won." Shiva chuckled.
When the groups had taken turns rolling their dice one by one, Shiva's group got 6 first."
"Ok I'm going first!" Meenakshi announced, and picked a card.
"Go ahead." Aniruddh remarked.
"You all I can't draw ok." Meenakshi said.
Furthermore she drew these two circles and an line underneath it.
"Golgoppe!!" Lakshman said.
"Stones!" Buddha added.
"Modak?" Aniruddh asks.
"Eyes." Shiva chucked.
"Prabhu it's you! The Shaligram." Brahmaputra answered.
"Noo bhaiya!" Meenakshi laughed.
"Laddoo?"
"Bhaiya no!" Meenakshi face palmed herself.
"Cherries?" Jesus asks.
"Berries?" Vishnu added.
"Sweets!" Ariadne smiled.
"Friends! I give up!" Meenakshi declared with answers laugh.
"Yea, tell us the answer." Miguel asks.
"They're supposed to be running shoes, for crying out loud!!" Meenakshi exclaimed.
"Meena no! That's illegal." Lakshman laughed.
"If I wear those shoes, I would fall on my face." Aniruddh couldn't stop laughing. "Before I even get up on my feet."
"Anu ki bacche!" Meenakshi picked up a cushion to hit him.
"I'll help you Meena. We will both hit Aniruddh." Ariadne adds.
"I thought Ari was innocent." Akshobhya thought.
"You know... I will spare you today. Ok someone roll the dice again. I rest my case." Meenakshi said.
This time, the Jesus group got 6 first, so Ariadne went and drew a dome.
"A hut!"
"And door?" Miguel asked.
"Have you learned to draw from Meenakshi?"
"Haha no."
"It's a pillar?" Lakshman asked
"Some cave?" Meenakshi added.
"Looks like a dirt oven." Buddha suggests.
"Correct!"
"And your prize is $100, Siddhant." Aniruddh says. "Please give it to Meena and Ari so that they can go to art class."
"Lol." Buddha chuckled.
"Aniruddh, it's Pictionary, lol." Ariadne replied.
"I just want to see his masterpiece." Meenakshi said with sarcasm.
Thereafter, Akshobhya drew something like a square with a roof. And then he drew something like bread.
"A building?!" Lakshman asked.
"A bread shop?" Jesus adds.
"Your house." Miguel said.
"Yea Miguel. That must be Akshu 's house." Aniruddh replied.
"So my house look like that." Akshobhya laughed.
"You all! It's a bakery!" Shiva declared.
"Correct Gaurav."
Moreover, it was Lakshman's turn, so he took a card and began to draw three cars.
"Traffic?" Vishnu asks.
"Congestion?" Jesus adds.
"I know! It's procession." Meenakshi exclaimed.
"Yea a procession."
"No lord, it's a race maybe." Ariadne whispered.
"Well say it."
"A race, Lakshman!" Ariadne announced
"Yes!!" Lakshman smiled.
"That was amazing Laksh." Vishnu cheered.
"Thanks. Prabhu, can you teach me how to draw?" Lakshman asks.
"Laksh! My name is Krishna, not Chitragupt." Vishnu laughed.
(Hint: I know that Chitragupt helps Yamraj, as he has the book of fate. But his name means Hidden Picture.)
"Prabhu!" Lakshman chuckled.
"But sure Laksh. I will." Vishnu smiled
As the groups knew their order of turns, they didn't need to roll the dice. So the order is, the Shiv group, the Jesus group, the Buddha group, and Vishnu's group. Now it's the celestial beings turn to participate. Shiva didn't invite any divine devotees because his group was already full, so Aniruddh went on and drew something like waves, a straight line and a few stick people.
"Oh look at his masterpiece." Meenakshi said sarcastically. "How much are you selling it for?"
"Yea Aniruddh. I'm looking for a portrait to hang in my room." Ariadne chuckled.
"Won't you not guess?" Aniruddh remarked.
"It looks like a beach, duh." Meenakshi adds.
"No, close."
"A get together?" Lakshman asks.
"End of Pandemic?" Vishnu asked.
"Summer?" Jesus asked.
"Ganesh Chaturthi?" Shiva added.
"A baptism?" Miguel asked. "Where the river and the sea meets."
"Are they going to fish at least?" Jesus further asked.
"Samudra Manthan?" Brahmaputra suggested.
"Beach wedding!" Akshobhya asked.
"No Akshobhya, must be a beach party." Buddha said.
"Yea I agree with Sensei." Videhamuni says.
"Once again correct, Siddhant."
"Baapare." Meenakshi remarked.
"Yea Meena, tell me." Shiva smiled.
"Oh sorry, not you. It's an expression." Meenakshi replied.
Thereafter Miguel took a card and began to draw a building with stick people outside.
"Is it a library?"
"Another house?"
"A church?"
"A temple?"
"No, no no. And definitely not the secret place of the most High. Then how do one would go about drawing it." Miguel said.
"Like how they drew Goloka and Vaikunth." Vishnu smiled.
"Yes Vishnu." Miguel said. "But my lord's secret place has no appearence. But I feel is the lord's very refuge."
"Sadu Sadu." Vishnu cheered.
"Is it a bowling ally then?!"
"A mall?!"
"It's a school." Meenakshi announced.
"Right!"
After Miguel, Videhamuni went up and took a card. He drew one stick person with his hand raised against the next stick person, and then her circled the person's hand a few times.
"A slap?"
"Oh three jewels no!" Videhamuni said.
"Punishment."
"Teaching." Vishnu smiled.
(Hint: three jewels are Buddha, Dharma, Sangha).
"Yea I'm going with Vasudev. It's mentorship." Aniruddh announced.
"A lecture." Meenakshi answered.
"Tell us, Videhamuni." Shiva suggests. "Or give us a hint."
"The hint is!! A boon."
"Some sermon." Akshobhya adds.
"So that means it will be a blessing!" Lakshman said.
"Yes! Actually, the card said slap. That however denotes pain." Videhamuni said. "I can never practise violence, or hurt anyone. So I drew someone giving blessings to another instead."
"Waw."
"That's so beautiful."
"I have learnt from the best."
Moreover Brahmaputra took a card and began to draw a few boxes joined together.
"A community?"
"Narayan Narayan!"
"A housing development."
"Narayan Narayan!"
"Are you saying yes or no?" Lakshman asked.
"A city!"
"Oh yes! It's a neighborhood." Akshobhya answered.
"Correct!"
"Now for you lords to draw something!" Meenakshi smiled.
"Yes! Now go ahead Prabhu." Aniruddh added.
"Shiva, I have an idea. Let's huddle up." Vishnu whispered. Then the four deities huddled up and whispered to each other, and thereafter took their markers.
"This is not from the cards, dears." Shiva said.
"We're going free style." Buddha added.
Furthermore the four drew a line of people holding hands and smiling, then they drew a beautiful background and boarder of flowers.
"Give us the answer." Buddha smiled.
"Ecclesias? The gathering of people." Miguel said with confidence.
"Yea I feel so. In Sanskrit we say Sampoorna. Narayan Narayan!" Brahmaputra said.
"A monastery of every creed and race!" Videhamuni replied.
"What do you have to say, you five?" Jesus asks.
"It looks like they're joint." Lakshman said.
"Yes. Despite their differences." Ariadne added.
"No matter the religion, race, ethnicity or rank." Meenakshi said.
"Looks like harmony." Aniruddh remarked.
"Yea I agree." Akshobhya says.
"You are all correct. It's oneness." Vishnu smiled.
"Oneness of mankind." Shiva declared.
"Life will be more happy, if we don't dwell on differences." Jesus stated.
"At the end of the day, our hearts still beat the same way. And our blood is the same colour." Buddha said.
"Yes I have created the caste system. But it is not to divide or look down at people. It's to classify one's roles in society and their behaviours, and also to bring people together." Vishnu ssid.
"How?" Lakshman asked.
"I want them to realise that the heart of the Brahmins beats like the heart of the Kshatriyas, the Kshatriyas heart beats like the Vaishyas and Vaishyas heart beats like the Shudras heart. And vice versa, and too one another." Vishnu replied. "It's like a policeman and a fireman. They have different occupations but at the end of the day, they still contribute to society."
"No one should condemn anyone, just because these factors of race, rank, religion, status and way of life. Before you were born, you were first a soul. And before these factors you were human." Buddha quoted.
"They're no such thing as untouchables and superiors. All are one in our eyes. If it wasn't, the name won't be mankind. But divided kind. Anyways, we're all one, so we must love everyone and help them if they're in need." Jesus added.
"Lastly, don't look down at people. The only time to look down is when you sink your eyes and bend to lift up someone in need." Shiva concludes.
After their divine lecture, all devotees clasped their hands and bowed to them.
"Narayan Narayan!!"
"Venerations be to Sakyamuni!"
"Praise God!"
"Har Har Mahadev!"
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