“You are me, and yet you are each fully your own persons, and different”, Lady Shakti whispered as she embraced the Ladies. “And Padmasambhava is my husband, and yet he is not; he is his own person as well. All three of you are amazing”, she glowed.
“And you, Lady Goddess, are our self-realization, and yet, you are a distinct person, and we don’t melt into you, but rather we each glow stronger with your power, that is ours as well, and greater when we embrace you”, Mandarava whispered back. “Holding you in my arms is like holding my own soul, that is also my mother”, a tear glistened in her eye. “It is not merely an honour for us. This is much, much more”.
“This is such a wonder, feeling my own soul grow brighter as I look at you, Lady Shakti; as if you were my source, and yet we are distinct; as if you gave birth to me, and not like I’m being re-absorbed into you, but like I’m growing from you, and rejoicing to meet my source”, Yeshe Tsogyal bowed.
“And you, Lord Padmasambhava”, Shakti curtsied. “You feel like my husband, to the point where I might forget myself, and yet you are your own, like a tree that grew from a root of an older tree, and is the same and yet its own”, she smiled.
“I am honoured to be in your most holy presence, Lady Tara”, Padmasambhava bowed deeply. “And I see that what I called Avalokiteshvara is in fact Lord Shiva”, he bowed to the Great Lord.
“So, we now for the first time have not a Divine Couple, but a Divine Triple?”, Lord Shiva smiled at them. “It never happened before, but I see how it works just fine”, he nodded.
“Aren’t you girls somewhat jealous of each other?”, Shakti winked mischievously.
“Is your left eye jealous because your right eye joins it in beholding your husband?”, smiled Yeshe Tsogyal.
“They are indeed your daughters”, laughed Lord Shankara. “Enlightened, wise and pure. Also crisp as the frost under the blue winter sky. I bow to all three of you”.
“And we bow to you, Great Lord, Master and Source of Yoga, Creator and Destroyer of Worlds”, Mandarava bowed to Shiva and Shakti both.
“Oh wow”, gasped Lady Shakti.
“Indeed”, nodded her husband. “They know”.
“We bow to you, LordLady of the Golden Fire, the origin and the endpoint”, bowed Padma Sambhava.
“You had your turn, Mother; let the rest of us get to know them”, Zina giggled and embraced Lady Shakti from behind, lifting herself to her toes to see over her Mother’s shoulder.
“We are indeed honoured to know you, Lady Buddha”, Padmasambhava smiled. “I feel like we have known each other since forever, and as if we’re connected by fate”.
“That might indeed be so, since you were conceived when your casters wept over her”, nodded Lord Buddha. “And you are indeed giants, while I feel like a dwarf in your presence”, he bowed to the three.
“On the contrary, Lord Shakyamuni; we but developed a roof upon the foundations and a house that you yourself built”, Mandarava replied, and all three bowed deeply.
“We had such a terrible time recently, watching two thousand years of our progress in the West coming seemingly to ruin, as abject savagery took over the ruins of both Rome and Persia”, Azrael joined them. “And what a comfort to our hearts it is to see the three of you!”
“It is an honour to meet you, Lord Yama”, Padmasambhava and his two wives bowed together, as Azrael’s Title changed.
“We’re honoured to meet you, most honoured Ladies and Lord”, Christ and his Lady bowed together.
“Light of the World, and the True Church of Christ, we salute you”, they bowed back.
“I see your insight is as impeccable as the rest of your perfections”, Lord Azazel bowed, impressed greatly.
“It takes one to know one, Blade of Discernment”, Padmasambhava grinned at him and bowed back, and his Ladies joined him. “And I see the Goddess of Wisdom at your side, as well”, they bowed to Lady Kay.
“I’m in love with all three of you already”, Mind of God was elated. “We’ll have so many great meditations and conversations together”.
“We are looking forward to it, my Lady”, Yeshe Tsogyal smilingly hugged the bouncy girl, as Mandarava ruffled her hair.
“I wonder why Mary merged with me, and didn’t emancipate herself like the three of you”, Lady Lakshmi bowed and came to embrace them. “But I think I can understand. The three of you grew into huge independent trees of wisdom and yoga. You went through the entire God-forming process of multiple successive initiations, both independently and together. It strengthened you to the point where you are not mere shadows cast upon Earth by the Primordials; you grew to be independent Suns that shine with their own light. All three of you are deserving of the highest praise”, she bowed again, and was embraced by the women, while Padmasambhava bowed.
“Great Goddess, it is a blessing to be in your holy presence, as you are Blessing and Fortune itself. May your light forever guide and inform our paths”.
“All three of you are incredibly amazing”, smiled Lord Vishnu. “You exceeded our wildest hopes of what is possible, and at the darkest of times, after we suffered a great setback in other parts of the material world, at the hands of Satan”, he mused. “You demonstrated that one can close the full circle to godhood on Earth, that tulkus can emancipate themselves to be Gods in their own right, and that a God-couple of one man and one woman isn’t the only possible form of the goal of evolution. Tell me, how did you manage it?”, he wondered.
“Speaking of amazing, you are peerless, Lord Krishna”, they all bowed. “As to how we managed it, it is simple. We followed the teachings of the Buddha. We practiced vipassana and tummo, attained purity and detachment on the lower four elements, and became jewels in the lotus. We worshipped each other in every way and we were claimed as the Self of God”, Mandarava replied.
“Weren’t you tempted to form a couple?”, Vishnu wondered.
“No. We felt such spiritual kinship that removing one from it would feel like abandonment of the Goal itself. So, whatever goal it was that we achieved, we knew that we must achieve it together”, Yeshe Tsogyal replied.
“And so you did”, nodded Lord Shiva. “All praise to the three of you”, he bowed in blessing, as their souls glowed as one.