Planning Post: Goddess Lakshmi meets Savanna

For this upcoming storybook, I'm planning to have Savanna meet Lakshmi in a meditative state. She will have spent 20 days thus far in the Ashram. I think it's important to also lay out what happens within an ashram,

While underneath the Bodhi tree, during her meditation, Savanna will experience something much more out of body when she finds herself sitting in a grass field with Lakshmi herself. In my previous post, Lakshmi made an apperance as I wrote about the story, "The Banished Girls." Through that experience, Savanna has realzied that she is very similar to one of the sisters in the story, who has been cursed by Lakshmi.

In my previous planning post, I wrote the final paragraph for the entire storybook. Savanna is going to realize that while she's not ready for her spirit guides or the most indepth value of meditation, she is going to find the value of peace and learn that Grace, her friend from the flight, is actually her "soul sister" if you will.

Lakshmi is the Goddess of wealth, fortune, and prosperity. She relates to Savanna because Savanna has come from a fortunate career, bringing her material wealth, but she has lost the value of what truly matters.  I'm thinking that Lakshmi is going to share some news with her.... that she's not going to return home to a job, but an opportunity to rebuild her marraige. There's a piece of dialogue that I'm thinknig of, where Savanna first meets Lakshmi and she asks,
"Wait, I thought you were supposed to have four arms?"


Lakshmi will have a clever reply, something about modern day meditation or whatever, but explain how Her four arms are symbolic of the four goals of humanity that are considered good in Hinduism - dharma (pursuit of ethical, moral life), artha (pursuit of wealth, means of life), kama (pursuit of love, emotional fulfillment) and moksha (pursuit of self-knowledge, liberation).

Savanna's artha is quite satisfied, but along the way her dharma has suffered, and her kama. But through this trip to the ashram (and because of her alignment with Grace's soul) she has succeeded to return to her moksha, which is restoring her kama and dharma. 














Notes on Lakshmi:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakshmi