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Surya Sundarraj Sriram

@Surya_krsnbhakt

Dazzler

Posted: 11 years ago

#341

I think there can be three reasons for Yudi saying so:

1. Since Draupadi had already fallen off, he could just give some reason... so he randomly said this... 😆 Its not like Draupadi would suddenly appear to contradict him.. (This is just for fun)..

2. During Vanavas, when Arjuna went for tapasya, Draupadi was like, "Oh Arjun, where are you!".

And when he returned from Swargaloka, she was all happy shappy😛 like "Oh Arjun, here you are!"

Of course this means, Yudi either completely ignored her during Arjuna's absence, or he felt jealous...😈

3. Since Arjuna was the person who won Draupadi, and the others were just her husbands due to Mata's aagya, Yudi must have felt that she would be naturally partial to Arjuna... his thought process is vichitra...😆

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Semanti Chakraborty

@DharmaPriyaa

Dazzler

+ 2

Posted: 11 years ago

#342

I think, Draupadi loved Arjun the most it is a truth & very natural too for her. But it's her credit that she could do it covertly, not overtly as Varaali didi said. She knew her responsibilities to other 4 very well & served them always as a faithful wife. But her type of love may be different for different Pandavas. Like her love towards Yudhishthir seems to be more like respect, towards Bheem it is more like dependence, towards Nakul-Sahadev it was more like affection, & towards Arjun it seems to be more romantic. She did all her duties for all husbands so none of them could realize that she was more romantic towards Arjun. Even if Yudhishthir did not tell this then, the others could never know it.

Yudhishthir was never a jealous towards Arjun. He cannot be so. He knew it with his Yogic power I think. & in spite of knowing this, remember, he never expressed it to any of his brothers during their whole lifetime. In spite of knowing this he never reduced his love towards Draupadi. I think if Bheem did not ask him the reason of her fall, Yudhishthir never expressed this truth to them. That time was the end, & that's too a journey towards Heaven. Expressing the truth of life can be done then & there is no harm in confessing the guilt before leaving mortal body. Like Yudhishthir loved Bheem the most among his brothers but he had to say the truth that Bheem ate more than all. Could he say so during his lifetime? Never, because as a loving elder brother he could not. He always affectionately fed Bheem. But at the end, no truth should be hidden & also, Bheem asked him about the reason of his fall.

Edited by Urmila11 - 11 years ago

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Janaki

@RamKiSeeta

Achiever

+ 6

Posted: 11 years ago

#343

Sema is right. I think Draupadi may have had more romantic love for Arjuna in her heart because he was the one who won her in the swayamvar and her heart accepted him as her husband then and there. She always respected and loved the other Pandavas also, but I do believe she cherished a soft spot for Arjuna, which is the reason she was angry when he married Subhadra, whereas she is not described as expressing any anger when the other Pandavas remarried.

However, Draupadi never overtly expressed her preference like Starbharat is showing. She was a pativrata and served all her husbands equally.

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Surya Sundarraj Sriram

@Surya_krsnbhakt

Dazzler

Posted: 11 years ago

#344

Srimad Bhagavatam fans! I have a question!

WE know that Daksha has 60 daughters out of which 17 were given to Kashyapa.

One of them was Aditi who gave birth to the Adityas led by me.

So, when Vivasvan married Sanjna Devi he had three children out of which one was Yama. You following upto this?

So now go back to Daksha's daughters. OUt of those 60, 10 were given to Yamaraja. So how can he give his daughters to a person who is not born, or worse, to his great grandson?

Or am I to understand that Yamaraja incarnated as Surya's son?

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Surya Sundarraj Sriram

@Surya_krsnbhakt

Dazzler

Posted: 11 years ago

#345

OK let my other question be on one side. Here is a fresh doubt.

So in Satyayuga, people lived for lakhs and lakhs of years right?

Hiranyakashipu himself lived for 5 crore, 70 thousand and 61 years. (5,00,70,061 years).

In Tretayuga, people lived for 1000s of years.

Ravana lived for 55 lakh years. Dasaratha was 60,000 years old when Rama was born. Vasishta was as old as creation.

In Dwapara Yuga, people lived for hundreds of years.

Bhishma lived for 800 years (?, doubtful).

So when these people lived for so long, what was the whole point of putting upanayanam at 5 years, marrying at 14 years, having children at 25 etc????

Even Lord Rama had his upanayanam at 5 years, then seven years in gurukula, he came back when he was 12, then somewhere near 13 years to 15 years he got married to Sita. Then after he finished his vanvas and Ravana's end and all, he came back and sent Sita to forest. After 12 years, Lavakusa came and recited the Ramayana and finally Sita disappeared.

Then after that Rama lived for 11,000 years. What the hell for? All the important things were over before he was 60! Then why the rest of the 10,940 years?

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mayekarparag

@mayekarparag

Beginner

Posted: 11 years ago

#346

Time has come to question the history

We have always seen Mahabharata from the point of view of winners, but recently I have read this amazing book you can check it out at : http://ow.ly/v6SeI . It is a really awesome book which gives you story from the kauravas point of view. It is therefore called as Ajaya - Roll of the Dice - Epic of the Kaurava Clan.

Would you be interested to know more do click on the trailer link :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=an5lcg4teOQ

Have you say on such a brilliant and amazing book.

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Nandini

@NandiniRaizadaa

Trailblazer

+ 4

Posted: 11 years ago

#347

Well we always hear the story from the point of view of lord Jesus. Does anyone tries to justify Judas???? No . Does anyone ever say Judas was right???

Then why does this happen with Hinduism ??? Are we more tolerant ???

Secondly to write the story from the point of view of kauravas either you have to be a kaurava or you have to Ved vyas the original writer. How can anyone else write the story from the pov of people they don't know

I don't know who has written this book or what it entails but what ever it is it has to be pure imagination of the writer. It can be a great book but it would still be imagination, like we write and read fan fiction

PS this was not meant as a dig at lord Jesus. I believe in one God and believe in all the scriptures

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Surya Sundarraj Sriram

@Surya_krsnbhakt

Dazzler

Posted: 11 years ago

#348

Originally posted by: Nandiniraizaada
Well we always hear the story from the point of view of lord Jesus. Does anyone tries to justify Judas???? No . Does anyone ever say Judas was right???
Then why does this happen with Hinduism ??? Are we more tolerant ???

Secondly to write the story from the point of view of kauravas either you have to be a kaurava or you have to Ved vyas the original writer. How can anyone else write the story from the pov of people they don't know

I don't know who has written this book or what it entails but what ever it is it has to be pure imagination of the writer. It can be a great book but it would still be imagination, like we write and read fan fiction

PS this was not meant as a dig at lord Jesus. I believe in one God and believe in all the scriptures

Ya, we know u aren't aiming at Jesus. I think we are either very tolerant, which is rue for some people.

The other reason is that half of the Hindus don't even believe in our epics and Puranas, and so they read this as fiction. The other religions rever their sacred histories, but most of the people following HInduism are like, "Whatever, this sh*t happened million years ago, u expect me to believe it."

This is a main reason for such attitude towards our stories.

BUt anyways, new outlooks should not be discouraged, as the Vedas themselves encourage us to question and find out things for ourselves. So..

Further info on this book is available in this post by the author:

MAHABHARATA- ARE KAURAVAS SO EVIL?

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Nandini

@NandiniRaizadaa

Trailblazer

+ 4

Posted: 11 years ago

#349

Anyone who tries to disrobe a woman is evil

I think

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mayekarparag

@mayekarparag

Beginner

Posted: 11 years ago

#350

It is always said that every topic has two sides like the coin so writing the other side of the story is actually challenging and creating it and giving a value it is also a big task and Anand has done it in AJAYA. So I suggest you should look into Alternate Mythology , reading history through the eyes of the lost AJAYA - Roll of the Dice - Epic of the Kaurava Clan by Anand Neelakantan is that novel that got me intrigued by the whole genre all together.

Check the Slideshare Presentation about the book - http://www.slideshare.net/leadstartpublishing/the-time-has-come-to-question-history

Check the Teaser Trailer -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=an5lcg4teOQ