Greg's Dharma


Arjuna (Rahul) looked at the Kauravas (BCCI members) standing in front of him on the battlefield and said
“Oh Krishna! how will I fight my own bosses”

Krishna (Chappell), his charioteer, assumed his Vishwarupa and exclaimed “It is all about The Process Arjuna” Saying this he removed his laptop and made a 10 min PowerPoint presentation on The Process.


Bheema (Sachin), wielding his MRF mace and standing next to the chariot exclaimed
“Chaila Krishna ….I don’t like the animation …and moreover this doesn’t not have an exclusive section devoted to me”
Krishna looked at him benignly and said
“O great wielder of the MRF Mace willow…your days of being invincible are numbered…there stands between you and your destiny nothing but the hand of god”
Bheema, started biting his nail and staring away into the distance…he ignored his cell phone as a couple of sponsors tried contacting him

Enter Yudishtira (Saurav), eldest of the lot, who looked at the PowerPoint presentation through his glasses.
“O Krishna, this has mentions of every player needing to do 16 laps everyday. Does that include me whose (left handed) drives on the righteous path are beyond comparison”

Krishna looked at him grimly and said
“In the battlefield Yudishtira, you need to be able to run too. Your drives will be stopped and you will be found out by the rising evil (bouncer).”
Yudishtira shook his head, took his shirt off and started revolving it around his head.

Nakula and Sahadeva (Yuvi and Dhoni), also were eager to see the PowerPoint ppt.

Nakula made a face first and then said” Sir, why does your Process say am not a star yet….my dates with Kim (Sharma) Devi are known in the three worlds and I appear on Page 3 regularly. And I play like no left hander does in the three Lokas”

Krishna smiled and said “Son, you are a blessed soul but your ego is as large as your talent…your star will shine the day you realize this”
Nakula smirked and looked in the other direction

Sahadeva with the long hair was waiting patiently
Krishna looked at him and said” Your fame in Bharatvarsh is like Bheema’s but you need to learn how to wage war in the three Lokas and not just keep roaming around in your Divya Ratha (bike)”

Seeing this, Bheeshma (Sharad Pawar) emerged from the Kaurava camp
“O Krishna! this is unfair. How can you be with the Pandavas when we have paid your Taj Bills?”
Krishna took a moment to collect his thoughts and said
“O fat one…sorry mighty one. You will find yourself on a bed on arrows laid for you by the system. It will keep pricking you. You have to follow the Process else be doomed”

Murmurs of opposition began to emerge from the Kauravas and the Pandavas

Krishna, addressed all of them as a group and said
“The might of Bharatvarsh lies in you realizing that the solution lies not in war but in the Process”.

Saying this Krishna walked away into the setting sun.

(At the sidelines of the battlefield)

Sanjaya (Rajdeep Sardesai), said” Looks like all the breaking news of today is done Dhritarashtra (TV watching fools like us who are blind to what we watch)”

Dhritarashtra smiled and went to bed, hopeful of more breaking news the next day

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