Who can be the sole reason for Kurukshetra war?-3

Hello wings ! Let me drive you again to our epic MAHABARATH .This time I am going to start my engine with a game .

In my previous post                                       

Who can be the sole reason for Kurukshetra war? -2—>click this if you are new bird on my nest.                                                                                                                   

I had spoken about a Rishi Vedavyasa. History says he is the writer of this very epic. 

Now let me ask you this , Rishi Vedavyasa has a interesting relation with RajMatha Satyavathi the matsya kanya .What is that relation between the two?  Think?                                                                                                                                                                                 

dhyaayato vishayaanh pumsah sangasteshhupajaayate |

sangaath samjaayate kaamah kaamaath krodho abhijaayate ||

This says,When a person dwells longingly on sense objects, an inclination towards them is generated.This inclination develops into desire and desire gives rise to anger.

Mother is the supremacy of divinity in reality.Her love is more compassionate that any one .It’s the most precious gift of god. Every kid born will atleast be granted with this one wish of finding oneself secure in her self less love’s shelter(Mamatha).

There are two great mothers in this very epic .

1.Queen Gandhari(Wife of King Dhritharastra)

I have spoken about her in my previous post.   Who can be the sole reason for Kurukshetra war?—>Click this if you want to sway your memory back .

2. Queen Kunti (First wife of King Pandu)

KUNTI:

She is princess of KuntiBhoja Kingdom, was the daughter of Shurasena and the foster daughter of his cousin King Kuntibhoja ,as he was devoid of children.She is sister of Vasudeva (Biological father of Lord Krishna).Kunti was gifted with Atharvaveda mantras by Rishi Dhurvasa as he was pleased by patience and comfort offered by Kunti during his stay in KuntiBhoja.This mantra was used to invoke any god of her choice to beget children by them.Kunti in her teen,unaware of the power of mantra invoked God Surya ,he begot her a son and revitalized back her virginity.The eldest son of Kunti was finally born with a armor on ,he was Karna. She was unmarried teen then and this kid would be a non perishable mark on her character ,hence she chose to bury this little secret with time.She abandons this kid in river Ganges.

As a mother , was it fair on her part to do so?

Let us step in her shoes now,if she had disclosed this blessing of hers ,it would rather be a curse that stuck to her life for being clueless teen.She would have faced humiliation all her life.She would remain unmarried all her life .She would raise this warrior kid of hers.And Karna would probably be the most powerful king of KuntiBhoja .But her life would be shattered into pieces.

Based on my conjecture ,

She had two situations where she could have revealed this secret of her life.

1.Had she atleast revealed this secret to King Pandu atleast during her Vanvasa with him,he would probably have accepted Karna as eldest Pandav .But she feared of separation from her husband ,if he questions her virginity instead of accepting this kid of hers.

2.Atleast before Karna vows to be protector of Dhurvodhan ,Kunti could have reveled his birth secret with him.Karna would have understood his mother’s situation.He may not wish to join in as prince to keep this a secret ,but atleast he would not be ended to be mere pawns in hands of Dhuryodhan.

But as a child ,what was Karna ‘s mistake? Nothing ,it wasn’t his mistake that made him suffer humiliation whenever he held a bow and arrow.Why was he part of this misery when he was victim ?

Had Kunti revealed this mistake of hers ,Kurukshetra war wouldn’t take place ,as Dhuryodhan’s sole confidence in Karna as his protector would not be by his side.And Karna, if participated would fight  on side of Pandavas.

Kunti ,as mother showed her selfishness more than motherly love on Karna, also also asked him not to kill his 4 brothers ,Indirectly was it a promise to get himself killed by Arjuna?.Can we say Kunti’s intentions were incorrect ?Not exactly ,she was indeed a great mother of 6 kids .It was society’s humiliation that made her do the way she did .She was mere lady ,a women who would be seen as prostitute otherwise. But as a mother, she should have taken the arrows to protect her kid, but she didn’t do so.I would rather say she was the best mother in disguise.

Mahabharath is the only epic where we can witness every face of human as in mother, as father, as son ,as king or queen etc.Each face revealing in it’s own way the two faces of coin.We witness the best cocktail of human feeling in here anger,selfishness, love ,care ,affection ,attraction etc.See you soon wings,I will come back with more exciting characters ,till then stay tuned.

Thank you wings

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Who can be the sole reason for Kurukshetra war? -2

Hello wings!

As I promised, today I will  again enjoy with you the journey of our epic Mahabharata .

*READERS CAN READ THE PREVIOUS POST ON THE SAME FOR BETTER UNDERSTANDING . THE LINK OF PREVIOUS POST IS GIVEN BELOW*

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Our epics says that

“Dharme cha arthe cha Kaame cha mokshe cha Bharatarshabhaha Yadhihasti tadanyatra
Yannehasti na tadkvachit”

This says

“Every possible mixture of good deed and evil deeds can be witnessed in this epic.Anything witnessed in this epic (Mahabharata), may be found elsewhere, but what is not witnessed ever in this epic  will be impossible to find anywhere else too”

It actually gave  the future picture of the next yuga(kaliyuga).If the story is seen straight it seems to be the war fought just to give justice to Draupadi,but  depth of the  war raises so many questions .Let me ask one of them .If it was just for justice, was such destruction necessary ?Just give a thought about it.

Today I will talk about  King of Hastinapur- Dhritharastra(Rastra-Kingdom , Dhritha-Still) (a king raising the throne of Hastinapur after 25 yrs approx).

DHRITHARASTRA:-  He was a blind child born to Ambika the eldest queen of Vichitraveerya(son of Satyavathi and Shanthanu).He was born through a technique called “Niyog” impregnating Ambika by  Rishi Vedavyasa, who was really ugly to look hence when queen Ambika went in for Niyog ,she was so terrified to look at him ,hence she closed her eyes,due to which she gave birth to  a blind child.

This was very disappointing news for Satyavati and so she now instructed Vyasa to impregnate Vichitravirya’s second wife,Ambalika. Satyavati advised Ambalika not to close her eyes and she did not. However,at the sight of Vyasa,she became pale.Hence the kid born was weak and sensitive.I have also heard that the kid developed jaundice from birth.This kid was Pandu.

As both prince born weren’t physically fit to be the king of Hastinapur , Satyavathi sent Ambika again for Niyog, but  as she  could not muster up the courage to face Rishi(sage), she  sent her dasi (maid servant) in for Niyog instead. Dasi wasn’t scared ,she remained calm in whole process and gave birth to Vidhura ,the healthiest child ,but born to a dasi .History considers Vidhura as youngest brother of Pandu and Dhritharastra ,but as he is dasi’s child he couldn’t  raise the throne ,but he turns to be very intelligent and diplomatic Maha mantri(Minister) later.

Woow!It’s way too big story .Anyway  coming back, as  this story is usually not heard much ,I thought to make you sway a breeze towards that .To be frank I myself didn’t know till recently.

Now this was glimpse of Maharaja Dhritharastra’s story, his blindness was the sole reason for his frustration.He was born ambitious to be the king of Hastinapur , but his crowning was stopped by Vidhura (Youngest Brother of Dhritharastra) who was minister of court ,giving the reason of his blindness.This was so because the Shastras forbids the appointment of a king who has a disability.A king can never be good ruler when he is blind,such person will need other person always to rely on .Any person can misuse the king for his blindness.Ofcourse,all these were  actual facts.

But who can be blamed ?He was born blind .Was it his mistake? Or his mother’s ?Or Rishi VedaVyasa’s ?No one. He had dreamt to be the king all his life ,made himself capable enough to be so.He was indeed a valor too, with utmost desire to achieve anything . Being the eldest son of Hastinapur ,he couldn’t raise the throne.He witnessed his only wish ,shattered right before his eyes.

He did become king ,but as a substitute for Maharaja Pandu .He was never an independent king.

He always thought his strength is not to trust anyone .I must say ,he was really loving father.He loved his sons and respected their words.But the same love became path to the  destruction of his own sons.We usually have a saying  “Too much is always too bad”.His paternal love became so much that rather than love to his sons ,he became obsessed or infatuated with his sons(Putra moha).He did everything for his sons, as now he was scared of losing them.And his sons were completely surrendered to Shakuni.We  all know how Shakuni was .

He was indeed a good father to his sons but ,equally worst teacher for his sons.Had he loved his sons in actual terms ,he needn’t have been scared of losing them.

Had he  trusted  atleast his own people, Bhishma’s guidance would have shown  him right direction. His jealousy,anger,insecurity,infatuation for his sons, would find a way to leave his mind and soul .If he had chosen right path and accepted the mishaps in his life,Kurukshetra war would not have taken place.

In this story of dharma and adharma(Mahabharath), if you try digging deep yourself you  will find that every person can be held responsible for the destruction in this way or that.

That’s it for today, Don’t worry you will never feel drowsy as you walk across my pieces of art ,I guarantee that. See you soon wings.I will come back with more characters in my next post.Till then stay tuned .Bye

Thank youWings#WingsToMyThoughts