The pandavas

Any person who wins favor of Krsna has to be extremely humble, meek, reservoir of good qualities, controller of senses and totally detached from the material world. The pandvas had it all, in the 16thchapter of Bhagwat Geeta where krsna tells Arjun about the qualities of demi-gods and propensities of demons, Krsna declares there itself that “All you pandavas are born with divine qualities”. Not only that; Krsna declared right before the battle of Kurukshetra “nobody except you pandavas will remain alive at the end”. Pandvas were definitely not as they are shown in TV serials, six pack abs, tough looks and ready to flaunt their fighting skills in the battle.  It may appear or the materialist may think that Arjun was scared or reluctant to fight the battle and that’s why Krsna told him Bhagwat Geeta. The very first chapter of Bhagwat Geeta “ Arjun Vishad Yog” or observation of armies by Arjun is basically the hidden glorification of Arjun.

 

Pandavas were god-conscious sons of god-conscious parents. And the worshiper of Krsna will never want to earn kingdom or wealth at the cost of others lives, Arjun was such a pure vaishnava that he did not like the idea of killing others for the sake of Kingdom, moreover he was worried about the welfare of the soldiers and the wives of the soldiers. Arjun used the word” Varna-Sankara" in the first chapter, he was cautious about contamination of women and he thought so many women might get polluted if they do not have their Husband’s protection and what will happen to their kids? AHINSA-non-violence is the supreme transcendental quality that a pure vaishnava has and they are very alert about earning wealth, a real  vaishnava will want to earn through right ways. In Kaliyuga we find people easily ready to kill their parents, kins and relatives for money.

 

Another divine quality pandvas had was, they were “paap-Bhiru” means those who are scared of committing sins, throughout their lives pandavas were extremely cautious about not hurting others or offending others. In Kaliyuga people are scared of doing good things, especially scared of reading Bhagwat Geeta. Arjun was actually clearing his doubts by asking krsna” Am I not committing any scene by killing people like Dronacharya and Bhishma who are worthy of my worship? Krsna cleared all his doubts eventually and made him Aryan-Advanced. The pandavas knew that their uncle King Dhritrashtra was not favorable to them and what a painful thing is that, when you lose your father in such a young age, you expect your uncle to look after you but they were betrayed and basically the Hastinapur was their property. Still Yudhishtir went to play the gambling match because he did not want to offend his uncle.

 

After the battle of Kurukshetra was over Dhritrashtra was living with Pandavas, when Vidur lambasted Dhritrashtra that how can he still wish to live in a kingdom when he was supposed to take “Vanprasthasrham”. At a certain age, kings would leave their kingdom and enter in a forest in order to achieve self-realization. That’s the biggest problem in society these days, the above 60 population not trying for self-realization, politicians fighting elections in their 80’s and a big cluster of the above 60 generation is actually busy in changing TV channels after retirment. So After the advice of Vidur, Dhritrashtra went to Badrikashram. When Yudhistir did not find his uncle in the palace, he literally cried and thought I must have committed some offense so he must have left me, How Innocent was this King Yudhistir,  he forgot the fact that his uncle once plotted to kill Bhima.

 

That is nature of pure devotees, forgiveness. The Pandvas had only thing in mind, how can we please Krsna and how can we get his association. King Yudhistir was not interested in getting Charkavarti samrat tag by performing Rajsuya yagya, One who performs this Yagya becomes the king of entire world but Yudhistir took this opportunity to Glorify Krsna and declared that Krsna’s Agra-Puja will be performed during this Yagya, Krsna was chief of all gods, During this sacrifice , Dev Rishi Narad, LordShiva and other demi-gods were present, so Yudhistira showed this world that Krsna is the supreme personality of Godhead and he admitted to  krsna that whatever we have today is because of your causeless mercy. That is biggest difference between Karmis and devotees, karmis always take the credit, glorify themselves and put the blame on others when they fail and devotees believe that whatever opulence and skill we have is because of krsna, they believe everything is krsna’s property. Such was their love for krsna that as soon as they came to know krsna has ended his avatara and went to back to Goloka, they left their kingdom and decided, that there is no point living in this material world anymore and thier mother kunti had already left her body before they could do so. Hare Krsna

 

( Lord Gauranga, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu once showered his mercy on one Bramhin, the bramhin had Leprosy and he was thrown out of village, Lord Guaranga just hugged him and the bramhin got complete relief from the disease and had new shining body, the bramhin said" Oh Lord, what you did, Now I will be egostic and arrogant and tell others about I am favoured by the lord, let me be diseased, then Lord Chaitanya, Gaurchandra said" Just chant the mantra" Hare krishna hare krishna,krshna krishna hare hare, hare ram hare ram ram ram hare hare" and you will be the most humble soon) 

 

so Just chant & be Happy

 

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