Originally posted by: spatel23
Well the first three are Star Bharat's fictitious additions so they don't count (since everything else from the MB and not SPs MB). That being said, Arjuna was Krishna's best friend. further it is because of Arjuna that we have the knowledge of the Gita.
It was because of Arjun (and Krishna ofc) that the Pandavas won, otherwise Bhisma, Drona, and Karna could have easily won the war. Bhim played an important role no doubt, and I also hatethe CVs portrayal of such an amazing person
Nonetheless, we each have our respective opinions, just wanted to post my two cents.
Arjuna was not Krishna's best friend. He was a partial incarnation of Vishnu himself and took birth from Indra. Vishnu to defeat Sahasrakavacha Rakshasa (Karna) split himself into two halves: Nara and Narayana and each took turns to remove one armor each from the Rakshasa. When they had destroyed 999 armors, the Rakshasa took refuge under Surya and was born as Karna.
In fact when Krishna shows his Vishwaroopa, Arjuna apologizes to Krishna for having called him his friend.
Drona was not defeated by Arjuna. He was defeated by Lord Krishna's strategy and was beheaded by Dhrishtadyumna. Likewise Bhishma was also not defeated by Arjuna alone... it was again because of Lord Krishna's strategy and Shikhandi's help that he could defeat an unarmed Bhishma. In fact, even if there was no Arjuna, Bhishma would have been defeated easily if any of the Pandavas had Shikandi in his chariot. Karna would not have been defeated if not for, again, Lord Krishna's strategy. If he hadn't send Ghatotkacha to fight Karna, Karna would have used his Shakthi astra against Arjuna. If it wasn't for Lord Krishna, Arjuna would have been killed by Karna's Nagastra.
Arjuna never truly surrendered to Lord Krishna. He at many times refused to do what Krishna commanded him to do (initially fought pathetically against Bhishma forcing Krishna to break his vow, refused to participate in Drona vadh, refused to help in Duryodhan vadh). The only person who always considered the Lord's request as a command was Bhima. He never hesitated to do whatever Lord Krishna asked him to do be it killing of Jarasandha by desecrating his body, participating in the lie of killing of Ashwatthama (the elephant) or even breaking the rules of a mace fight by smashing Duryodhana's thigh.
Edited by shripadk - 11 years ago
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