[world-vedic] Historicity Of Mahabharat

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I read your reply with great interest. How do we explain these things in terms

of science. This is important especially when we are talking in terms of

history.

 

Why such things do happen now?

 

KS

>===== Original Message From vediculture =====

>Hare Krishna!

>Dear KS,

>

>Your question raises an elaborate history. However, to give you at least some

clue about this subject matter I shall try to give a consise reply. I once

translated the book 'The Teachings of Queen Kunti' for Iskon.

>

>The very chaste Kunti, when she was still a young girl, was benedicted by a

saint that she could invocate any demigod to beget a child from him. The saint

gave her a divine mantra to serve this purpose. Actually this incident already

served the coming events in her life. As usual, Providence shows H

>is omniscience.

>

>Because Kunti was still a young girl she wondered if the saint really had

power to give her this amazing benediction and she accidentally pronounced the

mantra. The moment she uttered the words immediately a baby emerged on her

lap, which was Karna, a son of Lord Surya, the Sun God.

>

>

>Because social conventions in those days were very hard and fast and because

an unmarried girl begetting a child was unthinkable in society she decided to

abandon her child and sacrifice it to Providence. She wrapped it in cloth in a

basket and dropped it in a holy river, however, with great pain i

>n her heart.

>

>Later, she was married to King Pandu. However, King Pandu was cursed by a

mystic yogi. Pandu had shot an animal while he was hunting in the forest. The

animal turned out to be a couple in love when the arrow hit them. Since the

couple felt greatly disturbed by the hunter, the yogi cursed the hunter

> - not knowing he was the King.

>In that way Pandu was sentenced to meet death as soon as he was touched by a

woman. This was a serious fate for the King because it meant he would never be

able to beget any children of his own in this life.

>

>When Pandu married Kunti she also could not touch his body unless he would

die. So to beget any children in his royal marriage the only way to conceive

them was by means of the invocation given to Kunti by the former sage. She

told Pandu of her benediction and Pandu agreed to invocate the demigods f

>or the purpose of begetting children to rule his kingdom in the future.

>

>In that way first Yuddhisthira came as the son of Lord Yama (the Lord of

Death). Then Arjuna came as the son of Lord Indra (the King of the Heavenly

Planets). Bima, Nakula and Sahadeva also came to the earth in this way (I

forgot from which planets. I suppose they were Vahyu and Agni, but I'm not su

>re).

>

>And with regard to Gandhari the following. What I know about her is that her

first conception was one in ignorance because she was jealous of Kunti, her

sister in law. Gandhari also desired to have sons in competition with her.

After all, her husband Dhritarastha was a blind king in heart and senses

>. He tried to defeat the Pandavas recklessly, who were the rightfull

descendants to the throne.

>So the first conception of Gandhari lasted for years. She suffered in great

pain and everyone wondered why no child emerged from her womb.

>

>At least she requested her servants to knock her body in such a way that her

pregnancy would come to an end. Her pain was unbearable. What came out of her

body was a big metal bullit, a black ball, heavy as lead. After much

deliberation it was decided to destroy the ball and give it to the sea. The

>ball broke into one hundred sharp pieces and these particles transformed into

her one hundred sons.

>Can you imagine the qualities of these creatures?

>

>These stories sound miraculous, however, you should keep in mind that in

those days such events were accepted as the hand of the Supreme Lord,

especially in this case because the two families were descendants of two great

dynasties, the Kurus and Yadavas, in one of which Lord Krishna Himself appeare

>d to relieve the earth from its heavy burden of karma resulting in the

Mahabharata.

>

>What I mean to say is this. In highly religious families and also on higher

planetary systems the couples are able to beget children without sexual

intercourse. They beget divine or spiritual children. Sometimes even their

child is born as an adult as in the case of Bima. He and his lover in the for

>est begot Gotchka (I'm not sure if I wirte the name correctly) who was a boy

of about sixteen years old when he was conceived by the couple. After all,

Bima also was a divine son coming from a transcendental plane, himself.

>

>I hope I was clear enough to convey the transcendental narrations to you as

far as I am informed on the matter. Hare Krishna!

>With love and devotion, you servant, Indira dasi.