Mahabharat Episode Discussion Thread # 18 - Page 69

Originally posted by: Arijit007

anjana, when did he followed that vow? main ne toh nahi dekhaa.

And must i say SRJ's voice modulation is just perfect👏. spcly during tht angry scene with ashwi. i believe it was one of the best scenes of MB which was owned completely by SRJ

Originally posted by: -TomNJerry-

the episode in some ways was a symbolic reflection!

some lines took me back to the time when Lord Krishna gives an option to Arjun and Duroydhan ... to choose from the 2 options ... Lord Krishna's narayani sena or Lord Krishna himself ... watching the episode made me think ... symbolically it somewhat means that in life we are often confronted with choices all the time ... its upon us whether we choose the Lord (path to salvation) or merely his creations (material things)!!!

we as humans keep speculating and assuming things based on our understanding of what we have read or intuitively think about certain things ... but we as human I believe posses no intelligence to truly understand the Lord's master plan!

the most beautiful scene was how the episode ended ... the depiction of the rising sun so well synchronized with the actual sun rise to Indian Independence day! ... if it was a confidence what a beautiful one ... and if it wasn't truly well done!

Happy Independence Day!

Originally posted by: Sabhayata

again gandhari didn't curse krishna ji for the death of her son's but for the mass destruction she even mentioned abhimanyu ,king of kambojas,avanti etc

and she did accept her son's were unrighteous and hence died

agreed sabhyata...but again gandhaari was a shiv bhaktini..she must have known the mass detruction done by bhagwan shiva and mata kaali to free the earth with adharmi asuras, paapis, evil doers..


She must have known that it needs to be done at one point somewhere...

There were a few people in the aryavarta who were not ignorant , such people have immense presence of mind and gandhaari was one of them..

So my point here is that Gandhaari should have shown presence of mind because she was capable of it.. Dhairya is what she should have had.. She was the only somewhat 'Sane' one amongst the kauravas..

Originally posted by: Sabhayata

i wouldn't say pandavas gor unfair help

they got divine help which they had earned

I think the intention of Kunti and Krishna revealing karna his real identity was not to weaken him...

It was an effort to stop the war..especially kunti wanted to stop the war and the mass destruction...because if karna backs off then duryodhan would feel less confident to start a war..

Karna was a gem which went in the wrong hands is what I would say..all kunti wanted was to try to remove the Gem from the wrong hands...

About kunti asking karna to not kill pandavas maybe at the time she thought that since karna is a shade more talented than arjuna and also the other pandavas, she feared that they might be killed by him, maybe because of his talent she never predicted or thought that he would be killed..so maybe she tried to plead for the safety of her weaker sons (here I am saying weaker because also before the war started pandavas side was indeed weaker than kaurava's side on the face value).


I think its psychology here - once karna knew abt his reality, he may have thought negatively or felt unlucky that only he was left by his mother for no fault of his , was called sutaputra all his life when he was a son of god and a kshatriya in reality and then thought that why kunti is telling him the secret now? and so came up to the conclusion that maybe she wants to protect her five (legitimate sons)? I am just giving my opinion here..what must have gone through karna's mind..


I agree that pandavas earned their divine help...

also overall the war was between divine help of krishna and other gods v/s evil help of Shakuni, jaydrath and other negative people...

mb no 3 in uk last night across all asian channels

Krishna giving draupadi gyaan yesterday - My opinion


Draupadi asking him why so much destruction? why couldn't krishna by his powers take away the negativity from people's souls and make them follow dharma without mass killing them ?

Krishna's reply (my interpretation) - A soul is independent, soul has the right to make choices, so its up to the soul to decide which path to take , right or wrong. One cannot not force the soul to do anything. If the soul chooses or drifts towards the wrong path, and if it continues causing injustice, havoc by choosing the wrong path at one point divine intervention is needed to stop it.

This mass destruction is needed to teach the world about what happens to unrighteous people.

A common person imitates someone who is on a higher position than him. a child imitates its parents, a student imitates its teacher similarly the subjects of a kingdom imitate their king / queen.

Krishna asks Draupadi - do you think all these kings in the aryavarth who died were just and righteous? do you think their activities on this earth as kings were giving good messages to their subjects? No . So, it was required indeed to destroy them to show the common people that they were wrong and so they got such a severe outcome of their wrong deeds! The purpose of this war was to purify the aryavarth from unrighteous people. to destroy every thing from the past, present as it was soiled because of unrighteousness that was spreading vigorously like a disease in the society and then to build a new future.

Draupadi asks Krishna that if the past and present people who participated in the war were soiled /tainted because of unrighteousness , then why did krishna kept herself and her husband alive? As they were all also born in the same world which has been tainted with unrighteousness?

Krishna replies : you and your husbands were born here to establish righteousness. you all had divine births and have divine essence in your bodies and souls : draupadi was born out of fire and pandavs were also born through the divine essence of various gods.

Therefore their souls and bodies were not tainted at birth by these unrighteous impurities of the world. Like how diamonds exists somewhere in the coal mines and once they are found and polished , they will never stop shining (this is my interpretation) Plus they (pandavas) always tried to live their lives righteously, making as many efforts as possible to not take the path of unrighteousness. This means as explained earlier that the souls of pandavs and draupadi had already chosen the righteous living.

Here Karna, was also born in a divine way but his soul could not choose the path of righteousness throughout his life so his soul was tainted and therefore not applicable to establish a future of righteousness on this earth (this is my interpretation, not mentioned on the episode).

For Dristadyumna (my interpretation not mentioned on episode) - he was like a custom made robot given birth only to kill Drona and not to establish dharma, so since his purpose of birth was completed, he was also killed.

Coming to parikshit, he was not conceived in a divine way but in a a common reproductive way that most humans do. So maybe his body/soul have the essence of the unrighteous people/world. Plus the purpose of his birth was to carry on the baton of righteousness that his ascendants (pandavas) would be establishing in the new world to come.Therefore it was necessary to kill him in womb and remove the impurities and make him alive again in a divine way so he could be the perfect descendant of righteous pandavs and for the new morning which was dawning on the aryavarth ..😊

I hope you all like it 😊

now, the end of the mahabharat is near, sangraam kaa ant hua, gaatha par bhi viraam lagne waali hain, parantu mahabharat ab bhi jaari hain, kisi ke man ke andar ke yuddh yaa kisi bhukhand ke liye yuddh mein mahabharat kaa yuddh abhi bhi chal rahaa hain, pataa nahi, in yuddh main kaanhaa kab kahaan kis ki madad karenge? woh khud hi jaane.