It has been a whole day that Lakshman and others have been locked up in a cell with no food our water, or phone service. However Charan was busy going about his satsang a, while not bothering with the fact that he have five underage teenagers locked up against their will.

"Those four frauds." Aniruddh remarked.
"Yes. Watch what we have gotten ourselves into." Lakshman added. "We should have avoided them more."
"They're so brainwashed." Meenakshi said. "Charan baba, meri charan(my foot!)"
"Have they said anything bad about your friend. To try to turn you on them?" Ariadne asked.
"No but he acted very rudely to Siddhant." Akshobhya replied.
"And Tarun had gotten furious when  Gaurav spoke."
"Huh....they conspired all of this..." Ariadne said with one breath.
"What happened to you all of a sudden?" Meenakshi became startled.
"Im claustrophobic." Ariadne said. "And....I. ....feel like...the air is getting thin."
"Ariadne?!" Lakshman and the others also became startled.
"Ariadne! Hang on! Ariadne!" Meenakshi cried.
"C..colours.. i..I see shapes."
"She's hallucinating!! Oh Mahadev! Help me!" Meenakshi says.
Thereafter Ariadne fainted in Meenakshi's arms.
"Ariadne!!' Meenakshi screamed.
"Is anyone there!!" Akshobhya bellowed.
"Help!" Lakshman added.
"Warm her hands by rubbing them!" Aniruddh requests.
"I'm rubbing, I'm rubbing." Meenakshi's body was shaking like a leaf.  "Mahadev help!!! Oh Bholenath!"
"We won't loose her, Meena, don't worry." Akshobhya adds. "Hello. Anyone around!!"

"I'm here." Charan entered with a lota of water. "Water?"
"Just this time! Only once." Aniruddh cried.
"Worship, then water." Charan laughed.
"Pooja pooja pooja!! That's all you can say?! Our friend is unconscious and you don't even have a heart!" Lakshman scolded Charan. "You're just a typical false baba who is in it for wealth and not the welbeing of others!"
"Laksh, calm down." Akshobhya says.
"Yes, calm down." Charan faked a smile again. "You don't look nice when you are angry."
Meanwhile Gaurav and Rafaai were looking at the situation.
"So how will we help our devotees, Shiv."
"Through a leela, Yeshu."
"I get where you're coming from."
"Hmm."
"I will push."
"And I will form a puddle and give Meenakshi the boon of thought." Shiva concludes.
Then they both did abbhaya mudra.

Thereafter, Jesus pushed Charan from behind, which caused him to fall. And when he fell, the water emptied inside their cell. Shiva then drained the water into a puddle, and then gave Meenakshi he boon.
"Who pushed me?!!" Charan turned around to see no one. "Let me leave from here."
"Oh waw! Thank you Mahadev!" Meenakshi wet her hands and sprinkled water on Ariadne's face.
"Meena....." She got up.
"Be careful." Meenakshi supported her.
"Meena, what happened?"
"You fainted."
"Oh. What if my anxiety comes back." Ariadne wondered.
"It won't." Meenakshi gave Ariadne her rudraksh bracelet. "Twirl the rudraksh beads between your fingers. When I feel restless and uneasy, I do the same. It calms me."
"Thank you. It's like rosary beads." Ariadne says.
"Yea."
"But what does the name rudraksh mean?"
"It means eyes of Rudra." Meenakshi replies.
"Waw." She looked at the rudraksh beads. "Rudra must have had beautiful brown eyes like this."
"Yes. Those are my Rudra's eyes." Meenakshi smiles. "As I think of it, they're like Gaurav's eyes."
Suddenly a woman who was dressed as a Sadvi entered and handed Lakshman a bowl of halwa.
"Who are you?" Lakshman asked.
"Your well wisher. I overheard that wicked man tormenting you all. So here dear, and share with your friends too." The woman says.
"Why would I trust you?" Lakshman asks.
"Because that baba have me as a slave! See, my name is Sarojini, yet he changed my name to Charanputri." She added.
"Oh! This baba had hurt a lot of people."
"Yes. I'm leaving now." 
"Eat eat. I have added a special ingredient." Sarojini thought while walking off. "Poison. The one who raises his voice at Swamiji doesn't deserve to live."

"I don't trust them." Anirrudh said. "You should not eat it."
"What if they have put poison." Akshobhya added.
"Number one, I'm hungry, number two, I have full faith in Lord Vishnu. He won't let anything happen to me." Lakshman  happily replied.  "And number three, I rather die of poison, than seeing you die from suffocation or same poison. You all mean the world to me."
"Lakshman, you're crazy." Meenakshi remarked. "However you're right about Shree Hari, He won't let anything happen to us."

"Om namo Bhagwate Vasudevaya." Lakshman recited.
"Yes dear." Vishnu says while doing abhaya mudra. And when he did, he removed all the poison.
Lakshman completely relished his meal and also offered to his friends. Yet no one was affected by poison.
"Buddham Sarnam Gacchami." Akshobhya said before he ate.
Buddha also did abhaya mudra.
"Good that all our devotees have eaten." Vasudev smiled. "I love them."

Later in the night, the five friends had to hug each other for warmth, as the coldness of the night was unbearable. The Anshas of the deities were still living as their devotees, while the deities themselves were on their way. Despite the long distance of the place where their devotees were captive, they still decided to travel like normal humans. Because they want to experience a journey which was fueled by love, care and concern. Just like how Krishna ran to Sudama, Rama journeyed from Panchavati to Lanka just to save Sita, Mahadev shielding Markanday from Yamraj, Buddha rushing to attend to his devotees, and like how Jesus wouldn't hesitate to assist those in need, be it a leper or tax collector.

Furthermore, that night led into a bright morning, where the friends were talking to each other.
"Our parents must be worried about us." Lakshman said. "And my sister, Prakriti."
"Yes. I don't know what condition they're in." Ariadne stated.
"Yea." The other three agreed.
"And my friend Siddhant must be worried as well. He's so compassionate. Siddhu was the one who change my violent life." Akshobhya said.
"Vasudev have also thought me many things. Sometimes I even feel like he's Krishna, while I'm Arjuna." Lakshman adds. "It's a wonderful feeling."
"Same here. Rafaai seem so different." Ariadne remarked. "I find warmth in his love."
"Gaurav is so wise and caring!" Meenakshi states. "And so Bhole like my Bholenath."
"Yea. He had also helped me a lot." Aniruddh says.
"Those four friends are so strange." Lakshman adds.
"Yea, you're right. They speak and think so differently."
"And also, those four are very comforting."
"Monday when I came to say hi to Vasudev, he seemed so worried about me." Lakshman tells them.
"Friends, do you think, they may be Gods themselves who had become our friends." Meenakshi asked. "And look at it, they always outsmart Tarun and the rest."
"Oh yea!"
"But how is this possible?" Ariadne asked.
"Sometimes God will take the form of a friend." Akshobhya replied. "I'm sure that Siddhant is Buddha."
"Wait, Akshobhya. I get it." Meenakshi's face lit up. "Siddhant, Siddharth. The names are similar."
"Yes! Siddhartha Gautama Buddha."
"And Vasudev is another name for Lord Vishnu." Lakshman smiled.
"Waw! How didn't we notice!"
"And Gaurav is Shiva!" Aniruddh added. "And remember, he had a blue blemish on his neck."
"I completely forgot."
"So that means Rafaai is Jesus. Yes." Ariadne said. "The piercings, the unusual way of speaking. But what does Rafaai mean?"
"I have read something once. Maybe it's the mashup of the name Rapha and Rabbi." Akshobhya replied.
"Yea, he's known as Jehova Rapha. And many called him Rabbi." Ariadne says. "First time we met, I accidentally called him Rabbi." 
"Well if these four exchange students are our four personal Gods, then they will definitely come to save us. Om Namo Narayanaya."
"Anyways those deities are so down to earth."
"Yea. Lord Shiva loves Lay's." Meenakshi chuckled.
"You all, I want to take Lord Vishnu on a tour around the country." Lakshman cried. "Wherever Sudama went, he would carry his Krishna moorti."
"That sounds good. I want to show Buddha some places." Akshobhya adds.
"And I want to spend time with Lord Jesus." Ariadne states.
"This is very astonishing." Aniruddh said. "We should definitely spend time with them!"

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