Mahabharata Wisdom #4

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This thread quotes stories from the great Hindu epic, Mahabharata

which gives lessons on morality and spirituality:

 

Story: Pandu's hunting

 

King Pandu was Yayathi's descendant through Puru and was the father

of the Pandava brothers. He was good king who was also generous.

Unfortunately, like many stories in the Mahabharata, he made untimely

mistakes.

 

Once when he was hunting (perhaps on honeymoon with his two

queens on the snowy slopes of the Himalayas), he shot a deer with his

arrow. This deer was mating. He forgot the dharmic law that a

vulnerable mating animal (which could not run or defend itself) should

not be harmed or hunted.

 

It was actually sage Kimindama and his wife who were flirting in the

form of deer (sages are not saints, they can marry and may of acquired

supernatural powers through austerities). Kimindama cursed Pandu to

die when he enjoys sexual pleasures. His wife killed herself too out of

grief.

 

Later Pandu renounced his material life and went to the forest

accompanied by his wives.

 

After 16 years of having renounced sensual pleasures, Pandu once (in

spring, the mating season) saw his wife Madri just after her bath

emitting sweet fragrance and was very ravishingly beautiful and

enchanting. Forgetting the curse and his renunciation of material

pleasures as well as driven by lust and desire, he embraced her and it

proved to be fatal. Madri tried to stop him but she couldn't.

 

Moral: 1. Follow the rules of lead life by dharma (righteousness)

2. Don't be ruled by lust and desires. They may fool you to think

it is alright to abandon vows or throw all caution to the winds. This is

the virtue that those who contracted HIV and STDs through sex should

of known and practised.

 

 

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Warmest regards,

Ruben

ruben

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"God does not appreciate external pomps and exhibitionistic

behaviour. God does not take revenge if you do not recognize

Him or revere Him." -Sathya Sai Baba.