raksha kare krishanjiii

The feather

"Advika!! Advika!! Advika wait!! Dont run Advika!!" Kunja ran after Little seven year old Advika who running around the house. "Advika beti (daughter) dont annoy mom, be a good girl and eat now" kunja tries to hold Advika but she 🤭🤭
"Okay fine! Then i will feed this to Abhi!! And then i will take only him to the Krishna mandir Abhi my son, come here!" Kunja dramatically suggested and listening to his mother's voice six year old Abhi cam running to her. "No no no, ma ma, no, i will eat, take me too" Advika ran to kunja, grabbing the corner of her duppatta.
After a while, when they reached the mandir, the main purohit (one who worships in the temples) immediately welcomed little Advika. "Come, Advika bitiya (daughter), i was waiting for you, more like Krishna ji was waiting for you."
Advika shyly smiled and ran towards the main hall of madir and sat beside the purohit's seat.
"Pandit ji, why do you always wait for Advika to come before arati, why keep krishna ji waiting for her?" asked a younger pujari while looking at Advika with judgmental eyes. The main purohit smiled and said, "krishna ji wont take our prayers untill she arrives"
The younger purohit laughed in arrogance and said, "well, all of us, pure bramhins, our prayers mean nothing to krishna ji, yet, a little girl whoes not even bramhin, her pressence matters!?". The main purohit smiled and said, "why would that be... But her pure devotion towards him is....though it doesnt need to be proved but I can give you a small prove" he walked towards little Advika and lifted her and took her outside. Kunja panicked and hurried to them, "Did advika do something wrong purohit ji!?". Purohit generously smiled and assured her that it was for just a small while. As they waited outside, purohit returned and told the younger purohit to start the rituals by lighting the prodip (a sort of candel). The more he tried, only the match sticks were wasted, the pradip didnt lit up. He changed the oil, changed tge pradip, changed the matchbox yet. When he gave up, he surrendered, his eyes were filled with tears, as he felt, the deepths of Advika's devotion towards krishna ji. He ran outside to see, Kunja standing alone with Abhi beside her. "Where is our Advika bitiya?" The young purohit asks, as he finally accepts the fact that, Advika was trully blessed by god himself. "She just went to the garden, she will be back soon" kunja smiled.
In the meanwhile, Advika was sitting in the garden of the temple.

She picked up the flowers she liked, and she counted, "For me, for ma, for abhi, for krishna ji"
As she was about to return she heard a very beautiful flute tune comming from a different direction, which goes deeper into the garden, to the pond. She wanted to go back but... The tune got her spell bound and her feets moved on its own, and before she knew it she was standing infront of the pond. She saw a boy, very charming, sitting in a rock stair, near the pond. She looked at him in amusment as he kept playing the tune.
Suddenly he stopped with a wired high pitch sound. "EEK!" Advika covered her ears and said , "you were singing so nicely, why stop with such a high pitch sound". The boy looked at her and smiled, "i am not feeling well, i am saaaad". He said the word "sad" with a dramatic expression. "Okay, if you play again i will make you happy" Advika promised, "oh really? How? How?" The boy asked very comically. "I will give you a flower" she said showing her basket filled with 4 flowers. "Hmmm okay, i will play again if you give me, THAT one" the boy points at the finest, most fresh flower in her basket. She quickly hid that flower behind her back, "its for my krishna ji!! I cant give you this" she pleaded. "Oh so pleasing that statue is more important than my happiness?" The boy asked making a sad expression, "may be, i am not worth a flower then". "I didnt say that!" Advika argued "okay fine! Take it and my krishna ji is not just a statue who needs flowers to be happy, if we are happy and well, he will be happy too, here take it" said Advika while giving him the flower and the boy stretched his arm to recive it. But in that moment "ADVIKA!!" Her mother's voice distracted her and the flower fell on his feet. "Comming ma" Advika said and she didnt see, how the flower fell on his feet and started to shine and it disappeared within him as he too started shining and slowly disappeared. Advika looked back to see no one there. She shrugged it off.
Returned to the mandir, finally it was time for puja now. As the puja was happening, she felt as if a faint sound of flute is ringing in her ears and she looked out side to see a peacock feather flying and twirling in the wind, as the purohit was busy chanting she quickly ran to it and took it then came back to her seat.

After puja as they were walking away, Advika kept adoring the colours of the feather, not noticing the shinning white flower in the krishna statues feet....