I was talking about him talking about Pandavs and Panchali with Karna just prior to the war
Also - the following is from RM's MB. I am too lazy to read the KMG version. Certainly the decision is Yudhi's but Krishna definitely applied emotional pressure
Indeed, all of you are too kind, too good, to be killers cold enough to cut down your grandfather. But not I, Yudhishtira; such goodness doesn't bind me. I am the warrior for you. I will do what your kind hearts don't permit you to. The bonds of this earth, its thongs of attachment, do not hold me. I am indifferent to joy and grief, good and evil, pain and pleasure. I make no difference between one enemy and another. Why, I make no difference, if you knew it, between my friend and my enemy. The world seems alike and one to me. Only my dharma matters, for what I have been born. Blame and praise are nothing to me; I am beyond the taint of these earthly things. No sin clings to me, Yudhishtira, I am the warrior for you. Leave Bheeshma to me; I will kill him tomorrow. Sleep in peace, you shall win this war." Yudhishtira takes the Dark One's hand and says, "Do you have to tell me you can kill Bheeshma? Krishna, you speak as if I don't know who you are. You are the beginning and the end of this world; you are the seed of the universe. Without you, there would be no darkness or light, no sun, moon or stars. What is Bheeshma, what are a thousand Bheeshmas, before you? Krishna, you are not just Arjuna's sarathy, but the sarathy of us all: the one who shows our spirits the way to light. I have no words to tell you how grateful I am that you have taken our cause for your own. But I will not allow you to perjure yourself and have the world say ever after that Krishna was a liar. You swore to Duryodhana that you would take no part in the fighting, that you would bear no arms, shed no blood by your own hand. I will not allow you to break your sacred word; not if it costs us this war, not if it costs us our lives. Why, the very earth will crumble into dust if Krishna breaks his word. No, we must find another way to kill Bheeshma." Krishna smiles to hear the new determination in Yudhishtira's voice. After a moment, the Pandava says, "I have a thought. On the first day of the war, when I went to Pitama for his blessing, he said to me that he was fighting only because he was obliged to. He said his heart lay with us; somehow, even after these nine days, I still believe him. I know of only one way in which we can kill Bheeshma. I will go to him tonight and ask him how he can be killed." He turns to Krishna, "If you think it is the right thing to do, I will go now." The others seem a little bewildered by the extraordinary idea. But Krishna says at once, "Bheeshma loves you and, if you ask him earnestly, how will he not answer you? Who better than the one you hunt to tell you how he can be hunted? Come, let us go at once."
Edited by AnuMP - 11 years ago
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