God Investigates

God was in a disgruntled mood. He was not happy. He looked at his own creation, the Human Beings. He shook his head vehemently, expressing his disapproval of the actions of men, and said aloud, “It’s enough, you puny creatures, it seems you think no end of your selves. Today you are raising your heads, and trying to equate yourselves with me. This is the height of audacity! I shall make you realize that you are mere robots, and I shall see to it, that you never again have an inflated opinion of yourselves.” With that, he caught something from the air, held it in His palm, and blew on it. Flapping, flipping, and flopping, these descended on the Earth. They happened to be Corona Viruses.

              

The whole world was in turmoil. The Viruses jumped from country to country, with the alacrity of gymnasts. From China to America, it spread like wildfire, with humans having no knowledge of how to douse the flames. People left their homes, only to dig trenches to bury the casualties enmasse. Countries competed with each other, as to who could construct the most hospitals for the Corona Virus patients, and New York seemed to be getting the much-coveted award! God rubbed his hands with utter satisfaction. So these were the insignificant creatures of his kingdom, who wanted to colonize Mars, a planet he had deliberately placed beyond the reach of men. These were the very same men, who had created living creatures from stem cells. It was only His supreme prerogative to create living organisms. He would teach them a lesson! They would not know how to control a minuscule virus and will lose their dear ones in utter helplessness.

                  

God laughed aloud, and clapped his hands in merriment, to find that people in their desperation, were doing all sorts of ridiculous things to ward of the disease. What stupid humans, he thought. It was ridiculous to drink cow’ urine to stay fit! Even the cows found it so amusing, that they winked at each other, and enjoyed the joke. Man would do anything to save himself from the pandemic. He looked at the queue in front of the Liquor shops. It amused him to see that people, despite the warning, that they were to keep a distance of one and a half feet from each other, were lined up in close proximity, in their eagerness to buy alcohol. There had been a rumor, that alcohol killed the Virus. But God knew that there would be no easy cure, such as drinking alcohol and felt satisfied that the time had come for man to realize, that there is a limit to their interfering. Then He walked up to Iran.

     

There he was shocked to see that the scarce Medical Staff were running up and down, not attending to Corona Virus casualties, but to others, who had been admitted as Emergency cases. In Iran anyone drinking liquor is given eighty lashes; there had been an advertisement through the internet, that Corona Virus could be checked by drinking alcohol. To circumvent the law, the Iranians had Industrial oil or Methanol which happens to be alcohol too. As a consequence, some became critically ill and even complained of blindness. God could not get over the childishness of full-fledged men.

             

God was about to see the situation in Spain, where there was pandemonium, because of the big hike in the spread of the disease. At that moment, he heard a chorus of cries. “God, O Merciful God, What have you done? Can you see our plight? We are the Poor from India. We are the  Street dogs, we are the migrants, and day laborers. Everything is under lock-down. You have closed down the eateries, how will we survive without food, how will we go back to the villages without transport, and who will support a blind for three weeks, without the money people give in charity? Give an answer God, answer!” God was put in a very difficult situation. In order to teach some people a lesson, he had caused too much suffering.

           

Then all of a sudden a young man from India, doing a doctorate in Microbiology, with Virology as the subject of his thesis, shouted out, “God, God I have found the Cure. Hospitals have found that it really works, as they have treated two-thousand patients, and all have recovered. India will show the world the way out of this darkness. I cannot divulge the treatment to anyone at present, because it has not been sanctioned by the Medical Board. God, you have been extremely kind to have given me the gift of your love, by showing me the way, by letting me have an insight. You see God, we are not trying to take over your prerogative, it’s only because you have given us the developed brain, and intelligence, that we have been able to go into Space, create living organisms or produce even a dog by cloning. It is all because of your benevolence, God! If you do not will it, it can never take place”.

               

God listened with patience. He was happy that Man had acknowledged God’s Omnipotence, and that Man was only dancing to His tune like puppets. Further, He had a very kind heart. Knowing the suffering of the people, he relented. The researcher’s explanation had satisfied him, so he gave an indulgent smile, and went back to Heaven. But as He was going up, He let human beings know, that he had taken his Favorites, the Old and the Aged, who had completed their term in this world, to the luxury of Heaven.

 

This He did, not for Corona Virus to get the better of men, but to emancipate the Aged from the thralldom of this world. Shortly He would be calling the Viruses back.