This story starts from the house of Brahma and his wife, Saraswati. Brahma is sitting in his favorite lotus-shaped chair in the living room reading a newspaper. Throughout the room there are pictures of all of the gods and their families.
Saraswati:
My lord, someone is here to see you.
Brahma:
I wonder who that could be. I was not expecting anyone to show up today. Oh well, tell them to come in.
Vyasa:
Please help me, my Lord. I need to find someone who would be able to write my story. I have looked everywhere for someone to be able to do it. No one on earth is special enough to write it for me.
Brahma:
Hmmm, that is quite a problem. Let’s see who we can find to help you with your predicament. Saraswati, be a dear and get me my laptop. Let’s pull up the catalog of all the gods and their children. Well, Vishnu is having problems with Lakshmi, so he’s definitely not going to be able to do it. Indra has the Indralok and the council on his head. What about Shiva? Nah, he is too busy with Nandi and trying to keep him in check nowadays. Well, what about his son, Ganesha? He is scholarly enough and with him you do not have to worry about having any problems.
Vyasa:
That is a great idea. Why did I not think of that before? I will go ask him personally and I am sure he will agree because it would benefit all of mankind and the gods alike.
*Back at the house of Ganesha something completely different is going on. This is happening in the living room, before Vyasa gets there.*
Ganesh:
Shubh and Labh, stop arguing with each other. Shubh, do not hit your brother. Riddhi, tell your son that violence is not always the answer. He needs to stop getting into fights with his brother. If he does not stop I will send him to stay with his grandfather, Shiva, and grandmother, Parvati, and then he will learn to not disobey me.
Shubh:
Dad, I do not want to go. Grandma always feeds me too much. I tell her I am not hungry and she still feeds me. Mom, tell him, I am not going. Send Labh. He loves it there.
Ganesh:
If you guys keep this up, you are both going to different places forever. Oh look, we have a visitor. Hello, Vyasa. What do I owe this pleasure to?
Vyasa:
I need someone to write down the Mahabharata for me. No one on earth can do it, and so I went to Brahma. He suggested I come to you and that you will become my writer.
Ganesh:
Well, that does sound like quite a problem. Since Brahma said that, I have to do it. I am not going to disobey him, but I do have one condition in order to do it.
Vyasa:
What is your condition? I will do my best to fulfill it.
Ganesh:
My condition is that once I start writing I will not stop until you are finished. No matter how long it takes or if we run out of supplies or anything else that happens. It is your job to make sure nothing interrupts my writing. As long as you can do that, I have no problems becoming your writer for this epic.
Vyasa:
Of course, I will just make sure to keep extra paper and everything else you might require. This way we will have no problems and can be done quickly too.
Author's Note:
The original story briefly talked about how worried Vyasa was about finding someone to write the story of Mahabharata for him. Brahma appears to him letting him know that Ganesha would do it. After that we find out that Ganesha puts up a condition in order for him to write the story. His condition is that once he starts writing he will not stop. So in this story, I have the original content in there with some extra information of my own. It shows the family life of Ganesha and Brahma. I wanted to show how Vyasa found his writer in all of the worlds, and the process he went through. Obviously it did not happen in this exact way, but I imagined it like this. I also wanted to show the family life of Ganesha and how that would have been had it been today. This story is based on a combination of modern life and the events from the past. I did not do extra research to write this story other than the readings from the class. I picked this image because it shows Vyasa sitting down with Ganesha, so that they can start writing the epic. It is said that Brahma was born from the lotus, that comes out of the naval of Vishnu. The lotus is known as the origin of life, as all three of the powerful beings, Shiva, Vishnu, and Brahma, are all part of each other. Indralok is where Indra lives. He is the king of Devas.