The Warped Sense Of Dharma and The Man Who Rose Above It

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india2050

@india2050

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Posted: 11 years ago

#21

I had decided to take a break from IF, but this post changed that😊.

Excellently written!! The Lord was the only man that day.

While Lord Krishna absolved the Pandavas of the blame for whatever happened that day (who am I to argue with him), but still I always felt that they were also to blame for whatever happened to their wife.

In the end Pandavas were also following the written rule of "slave dharma" and were quiet. I simply cannot bring myself to exonerate them for this. While the villains were behaving like villains, the Pandavas failed in their dharma towards their wife, they failed as humans that day.

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Arijit

@Arijit007

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Posted: 11 years ago

#22

thanks for the post, medha, truly krishna was the hero of that event.

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anwesha rath

@Anurulz

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+ 2

Posted: 11 years ago

#23

am on a hiatus from IF till exams but i had to come back and post coz of the track..u know, from a psychological point of view, as humans grow and develop, the idea of morality changes..when we are kids, its what our parents teach us, "what ma dad said is right and what they say is wrong is how right and wrong are"..then we gain a concrete idea of "correct and incorrect"..at tht time if the child is asked if a person who drops one cup out of mischief is worse or one who drops 10 cups while avoiding to trip a dog is worse, they will see the number of cups and answer the latter..

then we go to school, see the society, learn moral sciences and believe in the "rules"..societal norms soon become the basis for our morals..finally, as we enter mature adulthood we learn to distinguish between "rules" , "morals" and "conscience".. so if we go by "rules" then the kurus probably followed them using the slave logic..but they apparently hadnt matured enugh to place their "conscience" above the hollow rules..or they took refuge in the "rules" in metaphorically turning a blind eye to the injustice happening by crushing their "conscience".. here am not talking of only Draupadi..even if the pandavs were slaves, is it not the moral responsibility of the "masters" and the "king" to protect the "slaves"?? conscientially speaking, yes, but "rules" dnt talk of it.. the elders thought of the "rules" of bowing before the king's orders, the brothers of bowing before their eldest and eldest before his master..but noone thought of the responsibility here, of their inner conscience which wud not have allowed them to sit thru this grave violation of human rights..

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merrydock

@merrydock

Voyager

+ 6

Posted: 11 years ago

#24

good post, i guess that not every rule or norm set by man and society is Dharma. and the whole motive of the dice was to instigate adharma. people are not commodities and cannot and should not be owned by others. those times were different and people did own slaves and society allowed it. this was the norm and tradition the first needed to be changed.

when they duryodhan first bet his brother, it was adharma. and the rest is adharmic history. but that is thr story of the mahabharat. society needs to change and modify its rules and norms continuously.

thanks heaven that in our time, we abide by the law of life, liberty and equality. to me these are the absolute law of man and god. and will continue to be so.

unfortunately the situation for women have not changed very much. and they still do get exploited.

and if the situation does not change then some day in the near furture there will be another Mahabharat.