Why The Peace Negotiations Track Was Important

The last week has been dedicated to the peace negotiation track on SP's Mahabharat. I've loved all the episodes last week as it's a very important part of this story. A lot of people feel that MB was a saga about war and vengeance. MB, IMO, in reality is a tale about the importance of peace and not war. That's why I'm happy SP spent considerable time of this whole track.

nice post dear...
cmpletely agree with uu...last week all episodes were indeed great...SRJ was awesome

Excellent post...! 👏
An ignorant man can never be explained regardless of who attempts to do so as the ignorance lies deep in their inner. Lord Krishna is the best example to prove that even gods are bound in the chain of Karma, they too are Karmayogi.

Originally posted by: -Shruti

Excellent post...! 👏
An ignorant man can never be explained regardless of who attempts to do so as the ignorance lies deep in their inner. Lord Krishna is the best example to prove that even gods are bound in the chain of Karma, they too are Karmayogi.

Originally posted by: bheegi

The last week has been dedicated to the peace negotiation track on SP's Mahabharat. I've loved all the episodes last week as it's a very important part of this story. A lot of people feel that MB was a saga about war and vengeance. MB, IMO, in reality is a tale about the importance of peace and not war. That's why I'm happy SP spent considerable time of this whole track.

Lessons learnt from this track:

1. Even God is not exempt from being a karmyogi. While leaving for HP, Krishna was well aware of the futility of his trip. He knew the war was inevitable but just like a true karmyogi, he left no stone unturned to negotiate peace. As they say, he used saam, daam, dand and bhed to negotiate a peaceful settlement. We mortals can learn a lot from his actions. Even if the outcome is known, one has to put all our efforts in the actions. Krishna never wavered from his karma.

2. A person who's not ready to be enlightened can never be forced by another person. For that matter, even God can't enlighten a person who chooses to stay ignorant. Dury and Dhrit are prime examples here.

3. Any war fought without giving peace a fair trial can never be justified. It shows us what happens when peace is not given a chance. The consequences of war are always devastating, for both parties. Our leaders can learn a lot from this this track.

4. Of course, we also got a glimpse of what Gita preaches- anger, greed, arrogance, personal ego, ignorance, misplaced loyalties, attachment are our biggest enemies. They just lead to destruction.

Bheegi, I completely agree with you. Wonderful post BTW. 😊

about the fourth point shani, the people who have their hearts filled with darkness can never understand the path of light.

i completely agree with you peace talks were very important because of the kind destruction this war caused

there are two ways to look at the peace negotiations in the epic.One is draupadi's POV who is anti peace and one is pandavas POV who are pro peace

and both POV's are right even though they are opposite.Draupadi was only a woman at that time.A woman who represents all the insulted woman of the world .Hence her wanting war to get justice for herself was right.Any self respecting woman will never let her perpetrators go easily

whereas pandavs were not only husbands they were kings and princes as well hence had to think beyond duties of a husband .They understood the kind of destruction this war would cause and were ready to forget everything for the sake of peace.

Both pandavs and draupadi were doing what was right as per them which is the beauty of the peace negotiations at least for me .Two opposing POV yet none of them were wrong

also this effort for peace absolves pandavas to a large extent from the guilt of the destruction this war caused because they tried their best to stop it.Even krishna ji i believe was not too pro war when he did go for the peace negotiation he wholeheartedly wanted peace and didnt want to create destruction.Because he does make another attempt after the failed peace negotiations to stop the war.

now talking about the SB version i didnt like how they distorted the reason for pandavs and krishna wanting peace and drauapdi wanting war but i am still glad they showed it

great post bheegi

Absolutely brilliant thoughts! 👏
Some men live with darkness, no acceptance for light even when god himself offers it.