Sri Krishna 's roles in the Mahabharata war

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I wish to mention some of the less mentioned instances wherein Lord Krishna

intervenes to save Arjuna or the pandavas during the course of the war.

 

On more than one ocassion , a figure in the kaurava side hurls an astra(missile)

at Arjuna which the latter cannot meet.

On one ocassion it is missile that would destroy any person who was armed but

would harm the user if used against an unarmed person. By the will of Krishna ,

a much frustrated Kaurava warrior hurled this missile at Sri Krishna , the

charioteer and not Arjuna the warriror. The missile bounces back from Krishna

and kills the Kaurava warrior.

 

The same incident occurs when another warrior uses the Narayana Astra at Arjuna.

Now the Narayana astra does not have any reply or equivalent. Therefore Sri

Krishna stands up on his chariot and receives the Astra which setlles down as a

shining necklace on his neck. Arjuna protests this action of Krishna. Sri

Krishna replies , that it was His own weapon coming back to Him.

 

When Aswathama hears that his father Dronacharya had been killed by deception ,

his anger knows no bounds. He wants to eliminate the pandavas. He invokes the

Narayana Astra at the pandava camp in the night. The sky is filled with strange

missiles.This time Sri Krishna saves the pandavas in a different way. He says

This Missile will never hurt anyone who surrenders to It. He asks the entire

battalion of the pandavas to prostrate before this array of weapons coming at

them. They do that with the result that the weapons pass on harmlessly.

 

When Jayadratha was killed by Arjuna, Sri Krishna knew that Jayadratha's father

( a great sage) had declared that he who causes his son's head to roll down

would have his own head blown into a hundred pieces. By the will of Krishna the

same sage was meditating in the forest just outside the Kurkshetra field. Sri

Krishna asks Arjuna to sever the head of Jayadratha using the Pashupatha Asthra

and thus make it fly and land in the lap of the sage . Arjuna obeys implicitly .

The sage finds the severed head of his son on his lap. In shock he gets up

causing the head to roll to the ground and thus he meets his end by his own

curse.

 

Anand

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SVALPAM APYASYA DHARMASYA THRAYATE MAHATO BHAYATH

"Even a Bit of this Dharma will overcome great fear " - Bhagavad Gita Ch 2

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