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Dear Ashvin,

 

Yes, indeed. He was about to kill Bhishma and Drona in that order!

Krishna looked at how the Pandava army was getting shattered and was

retreating against Bhishma's attack.

Arjuna was going very soft on BheeSHma (remember he was BrihannaLe not

too long ago and his idealism we saw in Arjuna Vishaada yoga

of BG- unfortunately, too familiar to us, thanks to the Gandhi-s and

Nehru-s of Bharata VarSHa till to this day!).

 

BheeSHma was getting more and more fierce. Krishna was losing his

patience at this moment.

Then Krishna says, let the retreating army not return (let Arjuna do

slow dance!),

I will slain Bhishma and Drona.

 

Here is the original shloka (BheeSHma parvam, Adhyayam:59, shlokam 84)

 

ye yaanti te yaantu shinipraveera

yepisthithaah saatvata tepi yaantu|

bheeSHmam rathaatpaashya nipaatyamaanam

droNam cha sankhye sagaNam mayaadyaa || 84||

 

Just to give you an idea, BheeShma greets Arjuna to battle with him in

shloka 58.

 

saadhu paartha mahaabaaho

saadhu bhoh paaNDu nanadana |

preetosmi suBrisham putra

kuru yuddham mayaa saha ||58||

 

From shloka 58 to 83, about a quarter century worth of shlokas

describing BheeSHma's attack,

just imagine would reduce paaNDava army to about a quarter of what it

started with,

while Arjuna was going soft.

 

Krishna was naturally enraged at this and perhaps just to induce

Arjuna, he gets ready to slay

BheeSHma and DroNa.

Too bad our heritage, keeps replicating Duryodhanas and Arjunas (and

YudhiSHTiras).

It is to our misfortune that Krishna never returned to us or we failed

to recognize, shrouded (blinded)

by Nehru's Jacket and Gandhi's diaper.

It is shame that Bharatavarsha gives about 200 holidays in a year and

not once for Bhagavad-Gita Jayanthi!

Even that BG was pushed to obliivon or over interpolated (sectarian and

divisive) to an extent that it can not

serve any useful purpose!

If not for people like Chinmayananda and Prabhpada (although neither

did relieve it of sectarian interpretation- advaita/dvaita; we don't

see

those terms ever mentioned in BG!), at least, they brought it to fore

front. Our Orthodoxy would have buried it safely under heaps of works

of later day saints.

 

KST

 

 

aswin srinivasan <aswin.srinivasan

 

Sat, Nov 28, 2009 11:43 pm

A doubt in Mahabaratham [1 Attachment]

 

 

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Dear Bhaktas,

I had learnt that Lord Krishna never took his weapons against anyone

during the war in Mahabaratha. But i have seen certain pictures in

Internet that shows Lord Krishna takes a wheel from a chariot and aims

it at someone most probably at Drona. Can anyone explain me this

incidence. I have attached the photo also. Pl check it.

 

 

Regards

Aswin

 

 

 

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