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Watching Mahabharat these days on TV. To the allegation that Yudhishthir committed the biggest act of "adharma" by placing Draupadi as a bet during the game of Dyut, Krishna replies: It is not just Yudhishthir who had a misplaced sense of dharma, in abiding by the commitments he had entered into with Duryodhan. Everyone in the Sabha was adharmi because of their false sense of dharma, ie Bhishma would not resist Dushasan's or Duryodhan's cavalier conduct towards Draupadi because he had taken the vow to protect Hastinapur and would do nothing to negate that. Krishna says that there is something wrong with Dharma if it makes you blind to the basic tenets of humanity. Pledges ( Pratigya ), vows ( Pran) and commitments ( Vachan ) are like the branches to the tree of Dharma, but the root of Dharma is kindness ( Karuna) . If that is not protected, then the very Dharma is in danger of extinction. And, Krishna continues, the time to redefine Dharma has come... Yada Yada Hi Dharmasya Glanirva Bhavathi Bharatha, Abhyuthanam Adharmaysya Tadatmanam Srijami Aham'. I think we are in similar times now, even worse, and time to redefine a lot of things has come. Oh Krishna where are you....?
Again, visualising the impending disaster that would befall her family in the event of war, Draupadi dithers before Krishna and finally denounces war, seeking protection for her progeny. Even willing to bury her humiliation in the face of imminent death and destruction, pre-eminently of her sons, she is a picture of anguish and wants to know what will be the consequence of the impending war! Krishna replies: what can possibly be the consequence of war, except death and destruction? Only time will unravel the designs of the Almighty in thrusting this war on Aryavrat! But Draupadi must live in the present, he says! For, the uncertainty of the future will destroy the joys of the present, while prospects of joys in future will not alleviate the sufferings in the present. Hence live in the present and leave the future to the designs of the Creator, for only He has control over it and no purpose would be served by trying to decode it! He tells Draupadi to let the war be fought as the war is for a greater purpose, that is for establishment of Dharma and destruction of Adharma. War is not the Karatavya but the Sankalp of the righteous, to destroy the last vestiges of Adharma!
Amen! I want my Krishna again. Oh Krishna where are you?
Watching Mahabharat these days on TV. To the allegation that Yudhishthir committed the biggest act of "adharma" by placing Draupadi as a bet during the game of Dyut, Krishna replies: It is not just Yudhishthir who had a misplaced sense of dharma, in abiding by the commitments he had entered into with Duryodhan. Everyone in the Sabha was adharmi because of their false sense of dharma, ie Bhishma would not resist Dushasan's or Duryodhan's cavalier conduct towards Draupadi because he had taken the vow to protect Hastinapur and would do nothing to negate that. Krishna says that there is something wrong with Dharma if it makes you blind to the basic tenets of humanity. Pledges ( Pratigya ), vows ( Pran) and commitments ( Vachan ) are like the branches to the tree of Dharma, but the root of Dharma is kindness ( Karuna) . If that is not protected, then the very Dharma is in danger of extinction. And, Krishna continues, the time to redefine Dharma has come... Yada Yada Hi Dharmasya Glanirva Bhavathi Bharatha, Abhyuthanam Adharmaysya Tadatmanam Srijami Aham'. I think we are in similar times now, even worse, and time to redefine a lot of things has come. Oh Krishna where are you....?
Again, visualising the impending disaster that would befall her family in the event of war, Draupadi dithers before Krishna and finally denounces war, seeking protection for her progeny. Even willing to bury her humiliation in the face of imminent death and destruction, pre-eminently of her sons, she is a picture of anguish and wants to know what will be the consequence of the impending war! Krishna replies: what can possibly be the consequence of war, except death and destruction? Only time will unravel the designs of the Almighty in thrusting this war on Aryavrat! But Draupadi must live in the present, he says! For, the uncertainty of the future will destroy the joys of the present, while prospects of joys in future will not alleviate the sufferings in the present. Hence live in the present and leave the future to the designs of the Creator, for only He has control over it and no purpose would be served by trying to decode it! He tells Draupadi to let the war be fought as the war is for a greater purpose, that is for establishment of Dharma and destruction of Adharma. War is not the Karatavya but the Sankalp of the righteous, to destroy the last vestiges of Adharma!
Amen! I want my Krishna again. Oh Krishna where are you?
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