The Trimurthies were actually waiting for such an occasion. For some time, the THREE have been contemplating a new life- cycle change and creation of a novel world. Shiva heard the report presented by Yama.
Sensing the despair in Yama Lok, He pointed it out, that modern management techniques are different. Products are made where raw material and labour force is cheaper. You messed it up and why are you shedding tears now?
Vishnu intervened saying “Learn from the MNCs or Corporates – loss making business is sold to another company which wants to go in to red. Strategic partnerships are established or take over deals are made to bring what they call, synergy to existing operations. May be, Brahma can explain the jargons better than me.
Brahma felt under scrutiny and began to feel a trick or two coming His way – after all Vishnu is known to be a mayadhari!
Vishnu and Shiva enjoyed the confused look in all the four faces of Brahma. Not wishing to prolong Brahma’s discomfiture, BOTH told Yama that as Trimurthies, it was also THEIR duty to monitor the process of life and death.
WE felt modern techniques were needed to deal with demanding situations.
“I am creating people with higher intelligence and they are finding many ways of meeting death”, said Brahma nodding HIS heads up and down.
Vishnu continues with a smile playing on HIS face, “I am allowing the dharma and adharma wars to be waged by the earthlings themselves.
Shiva followed suit, “ I aided the events – with Nuclear, biological arsenals floating around and passing MY time in contemplation to start a new beginning deeper in the universe”.
Yama was getting restive, hearing seminal advices in place of a concrete suggestion he hoped for. His face showed psychedelic feelings of 81 rasas bettering the navarasa known to earthlings.
The peaceful face of Shiva smiled at him and wanted to relieve the burden of tension tearing apart Yama’s heart.
HE spoke: WE know you enjoy certain kinds of movies and also the fact that once in a while you selectively invite Chitragupta to give you company. Now follow Vishnu’s advice. Sell your loss making business or tie up with somebody on earth – they take care of deaths and you get the souls for processing at Yam Lok. With business concerns out of the way, you can contact the screenplay writers and directors with your stories and acting talents. But don’t forget to take Chitragupta and the buffalo with you. The cinemas won’t sell otherwise!
Be wise and charge the expenses either to Yam Lok account or to the producer’s. This is business with pleasure. How do you like it?
Brahma spoke:
Yama, be careful not to get in to trouble with the Law of the land. You might get in to a different kind of hell, in the prison cells reserved for under trials. It might take ages before your case comes up for a hearing. There, nobody is in a tearing hurry except on roads. Yama, you know that I can see the past, present and the future.
Be honest and answer me – did you not wanted to ask US about those cinemas that featured US?
Yama thought, “The Learned appeared more devious than Vishnu”. Brahma cast an all knowing smile at Yama.
Vishnu spoke:
After enjoying the softening operations on Yama by the Brahma and Shiva, HE advised him to buy a modern aircraft and suggested to him to avail a loan from Kubera, if need arises. Yama did not fail to notice the glee in Vishnu’s face while uttering Kubera’s name.
Further HE said:
With all the three of you together, it will be easier to promote the film all over the seven lokas. I can’t help but laugh at the comic sight you, Chitragupta and the buffalo will be presenting to the audiences. Brief smile appeared on the faces of Brahma and Shiva.
Yama stood with a confused look. Having come thus far, Yama wanted to his doubts clarified. Not wanting to miss such a rare opportunity, he looked at Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva. THEY sensed his imminent questions even as the words were forming in his mind.
In unison, THEY said: Yama, WE have been thinking about creating a novel World Order. You have become the catalyst for that change. The other doubt in your mind – is it a sign that mankind is slowly loosing faith in OUR presence and guidance?
The answer for that is no. Pilots in near miss-collisions, Astronauts landing on other planets, Captains in sinking submarines, persons trapped in avalanches, swept by tsunamis and chased down by erupting volcanoes ,surgeons before performing critical operations and researchers struggling with unknowns ..The list is pretty long - on Faith.
People call US, pray to US and so there is no question on the existence of God.
After considering the prevailing order on earth, probably, you may not find a place in the novel world, WE are planning to create. But rest assured. On this account you need become worried. The present order will survive for many more centuries and you will continue to be in business. As an interim sop WE have decided to do away with the annual auditing of your registers!
As he was just getting the last words of the Omni-speak, the snow swathed Himalayas became an iridescent mass.
Yama stood transfixed and gazed at the display of brilliant colours fusing in to a single hue and then collapsing as a single dot, before disappearing from his sight. For a very long time, he could not get the vanishing point of light out of his mind’s eye.
He savoured the revelation with a humbled reverence. In a rare gesture, the Trimurthies have allowed him to have a peep in to the shape of things to come – Yama saw Brahma busy planning his life creation experiments, Vishnu rehearsing the fresh avatars HE will have to take. Unmindful of all these, Shiva was dancing away with abandon, perfecting a whole new set of nrithya sastras. Among the Trimurthies, HE had more time to come in to action, in the novel world in the planning stages.
Yama thanked his stars for not having brought Chitragupta with him for the Himalayan Conclave. If push came to shove he wanted a scapegoat and Chitragupta, his long time associate will understand the result in a power equation. Having escaped axing, Yama wondered why Shiva made that oblique reference to Chitragupta.
As if to irritate him further, the number cruncher came up with a modified graph, omitting the actual deaths caused and considering only the population of inmates in the dungeons. The graph line, shedding its agoraphobia, was happily climbing skywards.
Even when annoyed, Yama understood a good proposal when the graph itself starts to speak. Yama decided to take full advantage under the sop promulgated by the Trimurthies
He left home wisened and with a resolve to implement the ‘Yama Lok Punarnirman Yojana’. He did not know the significance of this Ayojan nor the Yojana but understood the essence - it meant business and prosperity for him.
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