Monday, October 02, 2006

Peace!!

"Muhahahahahaaa Muhahahhaahaaa, Muhaahaaahaahaaahaaa Muhaahaahaaahaaaaa", he laughed crushing the army under his feet. Knocking the army by his weapon, he seemed insurmountable. The king came to know about this and rushed to the site. He saw 420,000 meters tall demon, Kumbhakarna. He waved at Kumbhakarna to catch his attention. Kumbhakarna saw the king of Ayodhya - Rama. He slashed his weapon towards Rama. Rama jumped aside. Rama shouted, " Kumbhakarna, what you are doing is not right! You should stop doing this." Kumbhakarna ignored Rama. He swung his weapon again at Rama. Rama shouted, "Kumbhakarna, you are suffering from a disease." Saying this Rama took out something and handed over to Kumbhakarna. Kumbhakarna looked at this card. Opened it. It read, "Get well soon." Kumbhakarna realized what he was wrong and started crying. Finally he went back to sleep in this cave and never came out.

Hearing this his brother, Ravana, got really upset. He was frustrated over Kumbhakarna's defeat. Next morning, Ravana went to Lord Rama's camp and challenged him. Rama said, "Ravana, whatever you have been doing was wrong. Leave this path and you will realize what you have been doing." Younger brother, Laxman, supported his brother and asked Ravana to leave this path of demonism. Ravana gave Laxman one tight slap for this advice. Laxman fell on the ground unconscious. Hanuman went to Himalaya to find Sanjivani Booti. Hanuman returned with the medicine and fed it to Laxman. Laxman came back to consciousness. Ravana stood there amused. Laxman looked at Ravana and gave him the same advice again and turned his other cheek towards Ravana. Ravana was furious he prepared his weapon to kill Laxman. Rama shouted, "O demon Ravana! Wait! You are suffrering from a disease. You are full of evil thoughts and deeds. You should meditate." Saying this Rama took another $2.97/100 Hallmark card and gave it to Ravana. Ravana looked at the card, the front page read ‘Get Well Soon’. He opened the card and the message inside said, ‘Just wanted you to know you're being thought about and wished the very best of health. – Your friends, Rama and army.’ Tears started rolling from Ravana's eyes and he accepted his defeat. A great war stopped with the help of ahinsavaad and a Get Well Soon card.

Many millenniums passed. Dvapara Yuga started. The standard of living had dropped from Treta Yuga.

Yudhishthira was loosing in the game of gambling. He lost Draupadi in the next round. Duryodhana ordered someone to bring Draupadi. Duryodhana started to disrobe Draupadi. Tall dark and handsome Bheem, second eldest in Pandavas, was upset. He stood up in the middle of the hall and shouted at Duryodhana, “Duryodhana, you have no idea what a big mistake you are doing. You are really sick. You should go and get some treatment for your disease. Get well soon Duryodhana.” Duryodhana completely ignored him and Ahinsawaadi Bheem was calm. Draupadi felt helpless and called Lord Krishna for help. Lord Krishna appeared in the darbaar and lengthened Draupadi’s saree. Duryodhana was determined to disrobe Draupadi at any cost. Seeing this Lord Krishna decided to teach Duryodhana a good peaceful lesson. Lord Krishna took a special weapon to punish Duryodhana. Lord closed his eyes, chanted some mantras. Opened his eyes and stared in Duryodhana’s eyes and said, “You have been acting really funny. You should do something for yourself. You should see a doctor. Get well soon, buddy.” Saying this a beam of bright white light suddenly came out of the special weapon, and from this beam came different cards, in different color and of different sizes. Duryodhana picked one small card and it read, ‘Hope you feel better soon. Get well soon.’ Another slightly bigger card was bright colored card lying near his right foot. He picked this one. ‘A happy note of sunshine especially for you, may you feel as good as new soon,’ said this one. While he was reading these cards, one big card flew towards him from the beam of light. Duryodhana grabbed this card and read it. A smile came on his face and then tears started rolling down his cheeks. He read the card aloud,

“Heard you're feeling sick

with some disease and a cold

Rest a lot and meditate

think about what values you should hold.

Time has passed

and we know you never knew,

Please Get Well soon,

We'll all love you."

He cried aloud, apologized to Pandavas. Yudhishthira gave him one Jadoo ki Jhappi. And another great war ended before it even began, again with ahinsawaad, Get Well Soon card and a Jadoo ki Jhappi.

To be continued...

1 comments:

Venkat Ramanan said...

Great imagination!!

Hmmm Now in Kaliyug, Standard of living has dropped a lot more and lots of demons roaming around! We need to print a million "Get Well Soon" and send to all netas, babus and the demons!!!

Lahe Raho Nipun!!!