DEAR READERS,
DHARMA IS NOT ABOUT TAKING BUT ABOUT GIVING; DHARMA IS NOT ABOUT SPEAKING BUT LISTENING; ITS ALSO ABOUT SHARING, BE IT FOOD OR AFFECTION. THAT WAS THE REASON FOR THE DEATH OF KAURAVAS AS THEY WERE STUBBORN AND DIDN'T SHARE A PENNY OF LAND. BUT, WHO WAS THE PERSON TO LAMENT ON THEIR CORPSES ???? IT WAS "GANDHARI", ONE OF THE MATRIARCHS OF MAHABHARATA.
GANDHARI..... PRINCESS OF GANDHAR ( PRESENTLY KANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN) WHO GOT MARRIED TO THE BLIND KING OF HASTINAPUR--- DHRITARASHTRA. SHE LEARNED THE TRUTH OF DHRITARASHTRA AFTER SOME DAYS OF HER MARRIAGE (THAT THE KING WAS BLIND). INSTEAD OF ASKING FOR JUSTICE AFTER GETTING DECEITED BUT SUPPORTED HER HUSBAND BY BLINDFOLDING HERSELF TO SHOW HER EMPATHY. THIS NOBLE ACT TURNED OUT TO BE ONE OF THE BIGGEST MISHAP OF MAHABHARATA. IF SHE HAD NOT DONE SO, SHE COULD HAVE MANEUVERED THE DYNASTY IN A DIFFERENT MANNER. SHE COULD HAVE STOPPED THE KAURAVAS FROM FALLING INTO THE HANDS OF SHAKUNI---HER OWN BROTHER.
WHEN KUNTI ALONG WITH PANDU WENT FOR EXILE, HANDING OVER THE REIGNS TO DHRITARASHTRA, A SENSE OF PRIDE AND JEALOUSY CAME IN GANDHARI AND SHE EVEN TRIED TO HAVE A CHILD WHO CAN BE THE NEXT HEIR . BUT, BEFORE THAT KUNTI RETURNED AS A WIDOW WITH HER 5 SONS. ANGER AND A SENSE OF GUILT HOVERED HER AND SHE ORDERED HER MAIDS TO HIT HER WOMB WITH A STEEL ROD. THIS RESULTED IN A DEAD BALL OF FLESH COMING OUT WHICH WAS THEN CONVERTED INTO 100 SMALL FLESHES BY SAGE VYASA AND INCUBATED IN POTS FOR 2 YEARS LATER CONVERTED INTO KAURAVAS. SHE LAMENTED ON HER BEHAVIOR BUT THE DESTRUCTION HAD BEEN CAUSED AND SHE HAD NOW BEEN THE MOTHER OF 100 SONS.
ALL THROUGH THE COURSE OF HAPPENINGS IN THE EPIC, IT CAN BE SEEN THAT SHE WAS A RIGHTEOUS WOMAN AND A CARING MOTHER. SHE KNEW THE FACT THAT THE PANDAVAS WERE WAY MORE POWERFUL THAN HER 100 SONS, SO SHE TRIED TO EXPLAIN THE WRATH TO DURYODHANA BUT IT WAS OF NO USE. SHE CAME TO KNOW THE FATE OF HER SONS WHEN DURYODHANA INSULTED LORD KRISHNA IN THE COURT OF HASTINAPUR AND THE "VASTRA-HARAN" OF DRAUPADI. SHE SHOUTED AND SCREAMED AT THE COURT ON SO CALLED KEEPERS OF MAHABHARATA BUT IT WAS TOO LATE TO ACT AS THE ROOT OF THIS DESTRUCTION WAS PLANTED BY HIS BROTHER AND WATERED BY HIS HUSBAND WHO WAS INEVITABLY BLIND IN THE LOVE OF HIS SON.
SHE WAS THE MOST DEVASTATED WOMEN AS SHE LOST NOT 1 OR 2 BUT 100 SONS ALONG WITH HER GRANDSONS. SHE SAW HER ONE AND ONLY DAUGHTER BECOMING A WIDOW BUT WAS HELPLESS. AFTER THE WAR WAS OVER AND THE DEVASTATION HAD HAPPENED SHE SAT AND LAMENTED ON THE CORPSES OF HER SONS. SOME WERE TORN FROM CHEST, SOME WERE BEHEADED, OTHERS HAD ARROWS ON THEIR BACK BUT SHE SAW ONLY ONE OF HER SON WHOSE THIGH WAS TORN OFF. A SEA OF ANGER RUSHED THROUGH HER AS BHEEM HAD KILLED HER 99 SONS AND TWO HER SONS WHOSE CHEST AND THIGH WERE TORN OFF. SHE WAS ANGRY ON THE KILLERS BUT MORE ON HERSELF THAT SHE COULD HAVE STOPPED THE WRATH IF ACTED ON THE RIGHT TIME.
KUNTI CRIED ON THE DEMISE OF KARNA , DRAUPADI CRIED ON THE DEATH OF HER 5 SONS KILLED IN THE DARKNESS OF NIGHT BUT DID GANDHARI HAD THE RIGHTS TO CRY??? DO THE MOTHER OF EVILS HAS THE RIGHT TO CRY ???? "NO GANDHARI NO....YOU CANNOT FEEL THE PAIN, YOU ARE DETACHED FROM THE PAIN", HER INNER SOUL CRIED. AS THESE THOUGHTS HOVERED OVER HER, SHE FOUND KRISHNA STANDING BESIDE HER. "WHY DID YOU BECOME BLINDFOLD? ?? WHY DIDN'T YOU STOP YOUR SON,HUSBAND AND BROTHER? WHERE WERE YOU WHEN ABHIMANYU WAS KILLED BRUTALLY??? WHERE WERE YOU WHEN DRAUPADI WAS TRIED TO BE RAPED ??? YOU HAVE LOST THE RIGHTS TO CRY .... YOU HAVE LOST THE RIGHTS TO QUESTION OTHERS. SO LONG WE REFUSE TO SHARE, FORGIVE AND FIND WAYS TO JUSTIFY OUR GREED , WAR WILL HAPPEN AND HEROES WILL NOT FIND PEACE. MAY DHARMA BESTOW UPON YOU", SAID KRISHNA . "IT IS VERY EASY TO SAY BUT IT IS MORE DIFFICULT TO ACT. YOU ARE GOD, YOU ARE UNIVERSE, YOU COULD HAVE STOPPED IT BUT YOU WANTED TO SEE MY SONS DEAD. GO KRISHNA GO...I CURSE YOU THAT ALL YOUR YADAVAS, YOUR CLAN WOULD DIE IN THE SAME WAY AS MY SONS DIED. YOU WILL DIE ALONE IN A FOREST LAMENTING LIKE ME".SAYING THIS GANDHARI REALISED THAT SHE HAD CAUSED A HAVOC BY DOING THIS TO THE GOD HIMSELF. SHE HUGGED THE GOD AGAIN AND CRIED. KRISHNA SMILED AND WALKED AWAY. GANDHARI SAT ON THE LAND OF KURUKSHETRA AND SEEING EVERYWHERE SHE FOUND ONLY ONE THING. "HER 100 DIVIDED DEAD WOMBS"
MOTHER IS ALWAYS A MOTHER....CHILD MIGHT BE A EVIL OR A HERO BUT THE LOVE REMAINS SAME. IT IS THE MOTHER WHO CAN TURN THE EVIL TO A HERO BUT GANDHARI MADE A MISTAKE BY BEING QUITE ON THE RIGHT TIME. IT WILL NOT BE WRONG TO SAY THAT SHE CREATED THE DEATH BED FOR HER SONS IN HER OWN HANDS.
ACT ON THE RIGHT TIME, SPEAK UP, ...... IT MAY SAVE YOU PERSONALLY.
DHARMA IS NOT ABOUT TAKING BUT ABOUT GIVING; DHARMA IS NOT ABOUT SPEAKING BUT LISTENING; ITS ALSO ABOUT SHARING, BE IT FOOD OR AFFECTION. THAT WAS THE REASON FOR THE DEATH OF KAURAVAS AS THEY WERE STUBBORN AND DIDN'T SHARE A PENNY OF LAND. BUT, WHO WAS THE PERSON TO LAMENT ON THEIR CORPSES ???? IT WAS "GANDHARI", ONE OF THE MATRIARCHS OF MAHABHARATA.
WHEN KUNTI ALONG WITH PANDU WENT FOR EXILE, HANDING OVER THE REIGNS TO DHRITARASHTRA, A SENSE OF PRIDE AND JEALOUSY CAME IN GANDHARI AND SHE EVEN TRIED TO HAVE A CHILD WHO CAN BE THE NEXT HEIR . BUT, BEFORE THAT KUNTI RETURNED AS A WIDOW WITH HER 5 SONS. ANGER AND A SENSE OF GUILT HOVERED HER AND SHE ORDERED HER MAIDS TO HIT HER WOMB WITH A STEEL ROD. THIS RESULTED IN A DEAD BALL OF FLESH COMING OUT WHICH WAS THEN CONVERTED INTO 100 SMALL FLESHES BY SAGE VYASA AND INCUBATED IN POTS FOR 2 YEARS LATER CONVERTED INTO KAURAVAS. SHE LAMENTED ON HER BEHAVIOR BUT THE DESTRUCTION HAD BEEN CAUSED AND SHE HAD NOW BEEN THE MOTHER OF 100 SONS.
ALL THROUGH THE COURSE OF HAPPENINGS IN THE EPIC, IT CAN BE SEEN THAT SHE WAS A RIGHTEOUS WOMAN AND A CARING MOTHER. SHE KNEW THE FACT THAT THE PANDAVAS WERE WAY MORE POWERFUL THAN HER 100 SONS, SO SHE TRIED TO EXPLAIN THE WRATH TO DURYODHANA BUT IT WAS OF NO USE. SHE CAME TO KNOW THE FATE OF HER SONS WHEN DURYODHANA INSULTED LORD KRISHNA IN THE COURT OF HASTINAPUR AND THE "VASTRA-HARAN" OF DRAUPADI. SHE SHOUTED AND SCREAMED AT THE COURT ON SO CALLED KEEPERS OF MAHABHARATA BUT IT WAS TOO LATE TO ACT AS THE ROOT OF THIS DESTRUCTION WAS PLANTED BY HIS BROTHER AND WATERED BY HIS HUSBAND WHO WAS INEVITABLY BLIND IN THE LOVE OF HIS SON.
SHE WAS THE MOST DEVASTATED WOMEN AS SHE LOST NOT 1 OR 2 BUT 100 SONS ALONG WITH HER GRANDSONS. SHE SAW HER ONE AND ONLY DAUGHTER BECOMING A WIDOW BUT WAS HELPLESS. AFTER THE WAR WAS OVER AND THE DEVASTATION HAD HAPPENED SHE SAT AND LAMENTED ON THE CORPSES OF HER SONS. SOME WERE TORN FROM CHEST, SOME WERE BEHEADED, OTHERS HAD ARROWS ON THEIR BACK BUT SHE SAW ONLY ONE OF HER SON WHOSE THIGH WAS TORN OFF. A SEA OF ANGER RUSHED THROUGH HER AS BHEEM HAD KILLED HER 99 SONS AND TWO HER SONS WHOSE CHEST AND THIGH WERE TORN OFF. SHE WAS ANGRY ON THE KILLERS BUT MORE ON HERSELF THAT SHE COULD HAVE STOPPED THE WRATH IF ACTED ON THE RIGHT TIME.
KUNTI CRIED ON THE DEMISE OF KARNA , DRAUPADI CRIED ON THE DEATH OF HER 5 SONS KILLED IN THE DARKNESS OF NIGHT BUT DID GANDHARI HAD THE RIGHTS TO CRY??? DO THE MOTHER OF EVILS HAS THE RIGHT TO CRY ???? "NO GANDHARI NO....YOU CANNOT FEEL THE PAIN, YOU ARE DETACHED FROM THE PAIN", HER INNER SOUL CRIED. AS THESE THOUGHTS HOVERED OVER HER, SHE FOUND KRISHNA STANDING BESIDE HER. "WHY DID YOU BECOME BLINDFOLD? ?? WHY DIDN'T YOU STOP YOUR SON,HUSBAND AND BROTHER? WHERE WERE YOU WHEN ABHIMANYU WAS KILLED BRUTALLY??? WHERE WERE YOU WHEN DRAUPADI WAS TRIED TO BE RAPED ??? YOU HAVE LOST THE RIGHTS TO CRY .... YOU HAVE LOST THE RIGHTS TO QUESTION OTHERS. SO LONG WE REFUSE TO SHARE, FORGIVE AND FIND WAYS TO JUSTIFY OUR GREED , WAR WILL HAPPEN AND HEROES WILL NOT FIND PEACE. MAY DHARMA BESTOW UPON YOU", SAID KRISHNA . "IT IS VERY EASY TO SAY BUT IT IS MORE DIFFICULT TO ACT. YOU ARE GOD, YOU ARE UNIVERSE, YOU COULD HAVE STOPPED IT BUT YOU WANTED TO SEE MY SONS DEAD. GO KRISHNA GO...I CURSE YOU THAT ALL YOUR YADAVAS, YOUR CLAN WOULD DIE IN THE SAME WAY AS MY SONS DIED. YOU WILL DIE ALONE IN A FOREST LAMENTING LIKE ME".SAYING THIS GANDHARI REALISED THAT SHE HAD CAUSED A HAVOC BY DOING THIS TO THE GOD HIMSELF. SHE HUGGED THE GOD AGAIN AND CRIED. KRISHNA SMILED AND WALKED AWAY. GANDHARI SAT ON THE LAND OF KURUKSHETRA AND SEEING EVERYWHERE SHE FOUND ONLY ONE THING. "HER 100 DIVIDED DEAD WOMBS"
MOTHER IS ALWAYS A MOTHER....CHILD MIGHT BE A EVIL OR A HERO BUT THE LOVE REMAINS SAME. IT IS THE MOTHER WHO CAN TURN THE EVIL TO A HERO BUT GANDHARI MADE A MISTAKE BY BEING QUITE ON THE RIGHT TIME. IT WILL NOT BE WRONG TO SAY THAT SHE CREATED THE DEATH BED FOR HER SONS IN HER OWN HANDS.
ACT ON THE RIGHT TIME, SPEAK UP, ...... IT MAY SAVE YOU PERSONALLY.
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