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Gandhari Curse to Krishna

Episode#78

"I curse you Krishna, if I have been a devoted and faithful wife, may my curse come true! Oh Krishna, mark my words - after 36 years from today, you will slay your own kinsmen akin to Pandavas and Kauravas! Your cousins, their sons, and grandsons will kill each other while you  Krishna, will wander alone in the woods and die a lonely and Ignominious death! Your dear ones shall run around the woods in desperation and grief exactly in the same manner as these women are doing now."

Krishna allow Gandhari to spew her venomous fury out of her system and accepted the curse calmly and with Grace! He replied with a smiling face, "Your curse is preordained by fate. As none can destroy Yadavas, they are destined to slay each other and meet their destruction at their own hands."

She looked at Draupadi "Look Draupadi, your hair is dyed with the blood of my son Dusshasana, but to get that blood, so much of rage was generated that it cost you the lives of your five sons! Was it worth? You could have forgiven or vengeance was the only solution? When this will stop or women will always weep for over her dead sons, her heroes, her martyrs! If we don't discover the power to share and forgive, you will always find tears in the eyes of mother and blood over the motherland - Janani Janmabhoomi...!

Lord Krishna said in Bhagvad Gita that "War is but an elaborate excuse, it is important to understand the causes of perpetration of a war! Even the heroes and martyrs deem it correct or right! To put in nut-shell, Dharma is about listening and not speaking; Dharma is about giving, not taking; Dharma is about helping the helpless; Dharma is about affection, not domination. Dharma materialises when a hungry man with great compassion is able to share his food with another! Gandhari children died because she did not resort to forgiveness! So long as we refuse to forgive so long as we refuse to share, so long as we find excuses to justify greed, wars will occur and the heroes will continue to die and you will continue to find a woman crying over her son's or husband's mortal remains."

Was Gandhari the reason for Mahabharat war? She chose to blindfold herself and so this really surmised the conceited truth 'behind the curtain' about her husband and children! Perhaps if she had not blindfolded herself and followed the path of righteousness, she would have been altogether a different mother, a less indulgent one, correcting the wrongs of her siblings, leading the story on a different path or with a less viciousness turn!

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