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The focus on faith is very apt for today' episode. The grace of Lord Krishna, the protector, was invoked by both Duryodhana and Arjuna before the Kurukshetra war. Duryodhana wished to have Lord Krishna's invincible army, while Arjuna simply wanted the Lord to be with him. Lord Krishna warned Arjuna that he would not fight on his behalf, he would just be with him. He told Arjuna to choose carefully between a non-fighting Krishna and a fighting army. Arjuna chose Krishna to be with him, and Duryodhana took Lord Krishna's army. Arjuna won the Mahabharata war, because he had the Lord with him. In today's episode, Krishna, and faith in Lord Krishna represents the wild card, the hidden variables that make the difference between victory and defeat.
On the one hand we have the modern day Duryodhana, the fraudman-godman, and on the other hand, we have Dhani, the contemporary Arjuna deeply confused and disturbed, and has nothing but her faith to offer. Duryodhana, I mean Dasharath Tripathi, terrorizes the entire town with his threats and his assurances. Interestingly his assurances also sound like threats, laced as they are with conditional overtones of the narcissistic need for power and control --a hunger for power that feeds off the faith of the gullible masses. Dasharath has on his side all that is predictable. He has money, power, ability to threaten people, and he has Tripurari, who represents the modern Karna, the dethroned prince, unaccepted by the royal family and raised as a commoner. Tripurari, like Karna, has sold his morals in exchange for a sense of belonging will do anything for a scrap of validation and acceptance by the patriarch.
Dasharath can buy information, command his army of followers blinded by a dysfunctional concept of faith that he feeds them, he can steal the evidence. In other words, he can command all the known variables. However, as they say," there is many a slip between Dasharath and Trip." Dasharath cannot command the hidden variables in the form of his own karma, his own nemesis. True, he absent-mindedly prays that things go in his favor, while swinging baby Krishna's cradle. Dasharath does not know how to pray; he is a power-hungry predator who only knows how to prey upon people's emotions and vulnerabilities.
The hidden variable in the form of all that is correct, all that is unexpected, and all that is magical is with Dhani and the widows in the ashram. Dhani's faith in the Lord naturally extends to her faith in the ability of a lawyer whom she has never met, and a case being fought against an adversary that is both unknown and unexpected. Her goodness becomes her prayer, and her faith, her embellishment.
The lines of the battlefield are nicely drawn, where the rich but fraudulent ones are favored over those who follow righteous means to gain their ends. The inner battlefield, however is more obfuscated by devices and desires that rage out of control. Viplav is Dasharath's conscience. He is righting the wrongs of greed and power. But Dasharath does not pay heed to the call of dharma.
Let us await the miracles that Lord Krishna brings forth for the ashram, and let us enjoy Dasharath's debacle. Although it may take time, it will definitely come.
On the one hand we have the modern day Duryodhana, the fraudman-godman, and on the other hand, we have Dhani, the contemporary Arjuna deeply confused and disturbed, and has nothing but her faith to offer. Duryodhana, I mean Dasharath Tripathi, terrorizes the entire town with his threats and his assurances. Interestingly his assurances also sound like threats, laced as they are with conditional overtones of the narcissistic need for power and control --a hunger for power that feeds off the faith of the gullible masses. Dasharath has on his side all that is predictable. He has money, power, ability to threaten people, and he has Tripurari, who represents the modern Karna, the dethroned prince, unaccepted by the royal family and raised as a commoner. Tripurari, like Karna, has sold his morals in exchange for a sense of belonging will do anything for a scrap of validation and acceptance by the patriarch.
Dasharath can buy information, command his army of followers blinded by a dysfunctional concept of faith that he feeds them, he can steal the evidence. In other words, he can command all the known variables. However, as they say," there is many a slip between Dasharath and Trip." Dasharath cannot command the hidden variables in the form of his own karma, his own nemesis. True, he absent-mindedly prays that things go in his favor, while swinging baby Krishna's cradle. Dasharath does not know how to pray; he is a power-hungry predator who only knows how to prey upon people's emotions and vulnerabilities.
The hidden variable in the form of all that is correct, all that is unexpected, and all that is magical is with Dhani and the widows in the ashram. Dhani's faith in the Lord naturally extends to her faith in the ability of a lawyer whom she has never met, and a case being fought against an adversary that is both unknown and unexpected. Her goodness becomes her prayer, and her faith, her embellishment.
The lines of the battlefield are nicely drawn, where the rich but fraudulent ones are favored over those who follow righteous means to gain their ends. The inner battlefield, however is more obfuscated by devices and desires that rage out of control. Viplav is Dasharath's conscience. He is righting the wrongs of greed and power. But Dasharath does not pay heed to the call of dharma.
Let us await the miracles that Lord Krishna brings forth for the ashram, and let us enjoy Dasharath's debacle. Although it may take time, it will definitely come.
Anupamaa
