Mahabharata war was inevitable: Lord Krishna

Episode 85

Gandhari eyes filled with tears and her ears were echoing the cries of the slain warriors  window's. She could not bear the heart-rending cries of all the mothers and widows; the air was filled with loud wailings! Gandhari was helpless and could find no way to console them. Seeing their intense grief, Gandhari forgot her own sorrow that all her hundred sons were killed by Bhima in the war - but after a while the nightmare memories struck her worse than a thunderbolt could have and she wept bitterly again.  She blamed Vasudev Krishna repeatedly for the total destruction of the Kuru race. Gandhari was under belief that Vasudev Krishna though he had power to prevent the war - he did not do enough to prevent the war.

This thoughts and her own helplessness tormented her to no end, if Vasudev Krishna and really desired to prevent it, this bloodshed was definitely avoidable. In a fit of rage, Gandhari cursed Vasudev Krishna that the Yadavas clan would also be similarly destroyed each other, and all the Yadavas widows shall lament exactly on the same way the Kauravas widows cried over their dead husbands! She also cursed Vasudev Krishna will be The mute witness of this entire carnage and watch his entire clan perish while he himself would die an inferior death like animal.

Vasudev Krishna replies to Gandhari that the Mahabharata war was an inevitable necessity. He reminds Gandhari of the time he came as a messenger of peace on behalfof Pandavas, her own son Duryodhana arrogantly declared that he would not return Indraprastha to Pandavas,  when Pandavas would have been content if Duryodhana had only offered them five villages. He reminds her incident when her own son Duryodhana, with the help of Sakuni,  attempted to destroy Pandavas on the various occasions. So his duty was to protect Dharma and not to prevent war. He reiterates to her that "although he controls the entire universe,  yet he does not interfere; he allows people to choose their own actions."

The Yadavas had turned very powerful under the protection of Lord Krishna and if left unattended and left on their own, they would be menace and perhaps an unavoidable burden on the earth, hence Gandhari cursed him and his race and though it may sound paradoxical,  he appreciated the importance of bringing destruction on his own race; he thanked Gandhari for having solved his problem without the need of an external power, Vasudev Krishna accepted her curse as a blessings to her great surprise.

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