Post by jksivan on Sept 7, 2013 5:50:46 GMT 5.5
Dear Children
66 "the eveready rescuer"
Dear Children
You have been reading and learning about Dhraupadhi, the wife of Pandavas. She is worshipped as a deity because she is treated as one of the Panch Maha Kanyakaas. She was born in the holy fire out of the Yagna performed by the king of Panchal, Dhrupadh. She was brought up as his pet daughter and so she got the name after him as Draupadhi, which you already know while reading the previous stories.
Draupadhi was an ardent devotee of Krishna. Krishna was very affectionate to her and was instrumental in her marrying Arjuna by winning the Mathsyendhram competition which also you read in a previous story. In fact Dhrupadha at one stage was thinking of marrying her to Krishna. But Krishna declined at the very beginning when the thought was expressed saying ''Dhraupadhi is for ever my best affectionate saki. I cannot imagine her to be a wife. It was Krishna's suggestion that Dhrupadh should hold a swayamvara in which a competition should be held for participation by all the kings and princes and winner of the Mathsyendram competition should be decisive in selecting the would be husband of Dhraupadhi.
You will refresh your memory by recalling an earlier story detailing how Arjuna participated in the competition as a brahmin youth and won by hitting the Mathsyendram and was declared the winner and husband of Dhraupadhi.
Krishna knew there will be a future war in which the Kauravas would be annihilated by the Pandavas and he was always known as KAPATA NAATAKA SUTHRADHARI - the main regulator or conductor of the drama of wits and outwits in which none could match Krishna.
The old blind king Dhritharashtran was quite partial towards his late brother Pandu's young children Pandavas, and when they grew up he allotted the best and largest part of his kingdom, with Hasthinapur as its capital for his 100 sons, headed by Dhuryodhana. The vacant dry stony desert area Kandava Van, as part of his kingdom for the Pandavas to build a city capital and rule. It was a barren land with no irrigation facility to cultivate. However Krishna was there for the Pandavas to convert it into a fertile land and Krishna organised the construction of abeautiful capital city named Indra Prastha for the Pandavas. The heavenly sculptor Mayan exclusively designed it for Pandavas as a marvellous architectural beauty. Krishna very well knew that it was because of Dhuryodhana's exerting pressure on the blind king which resulted in the Pandavas getting the barren land and he therefore helped Pandavas with special care on them. He saw Dhraupadhi's disappointed looks when she first viewed the land apportioned for Pandavas. It moved him and resulted in the beautiful Indraprastha to come into existence. I remind you this to prove that Krishna had always loved Pandavas and specially Dhraupadhi as his pet sister and devotee.
Dhuryodhana felt defeated when he ultimately witnessed the beauty of Indraprastha and the name and fame Pandavas got from the citizens ruled by Yudhishtra and his illustrious brothers.
Dhuryodhana was an incarnation of jealousy, envy, hatred and anger and specially enmity towards his cousin brothers Pandavas. The main cause of this was the steady and systematic growth of Pandavas' bravery, valour and the people's love for Yudhishtra's justice and honest ruling of the citizens, sincerety, honesty and interest in governing them safely.
Dhuryodhana was sleepless for many days after he was taken aback by the rich and grandeur celebration of the housewarming of the Indraprastha capital in which along with him many other princes and kings were present on special invitation by Pandavas. His fall in presence of Dhraupadhi into the water pool was a thorn in the flesh for him.
He decided to revenge Dhraupadhi and devised a scheme with the help of his evil uncle Shakuni who planned the devious gambling game in which Yudhishtra was trapped. Since Yudhishtra accepted the invitation to play on Dhuryodhana's request, Krishna could not stop and welcomed it. He knew that everyhthing was moving as per the master plan already designed. Sakuni was the root cause for the destruction of Kauravas was within the knowledge of Krishna and he simply observed everything and interfered wherever it was needed.
Krishna knew that the dice used by Dhuryodhana and Yudhishtra in the gambling game was made of the leg bone of Sakuni's father and would certainly show only the number he called and thought. Whereas it would not do so when Yudhishtra wanted a specific number. This will ultimately result in Yudhishtra losing the games and there will be no chance for him to recover was also known to Krishna well in advance.
He allowed this because he wanted Sakuni to be the main cause for the Pandavas to be enraged against him and Karuvas and concentrate in killing them in the war to take place between them.
Krishna however did not allow Dhraupadhi to be put to shame by her cloth being pulled out of her by the cruel Dhuschadhan, who wanted her to stand nude in front of all the Kauravas and their supporters in the courtt particularly in presence of her husbands who were rendered powerless and helpless. The innocent Pandavas and Dhraupadhi suffered a lot out of all these and always sough the help of Krishna their best friend and ''aapath sahaaya''
Here let me tell you an interesting side story relevant to this.
Once the Pandavas with Dhraupathi along with krishna went on a pilgrimage. At a particular place, they came across a jungle river which was very big almost appearing like an ocean, running in full speed with a deafening noise coming down from heights. Arjuna the bravest warrior was always interested in swimming in rivers. So he suggested that all of them can halt for a while, and take bath in the river before moving further.
After playing in the river for a long time the Pandavas got out of the river except Krishna. He was standing in the river upto his waist level. The cloth he was wearing had been carried away by the current of the river water and he was wondering how to get a replacement cloth and thought Arjuna would come to his rescue. But all the Pandavas got out and were moving. Dhraupadhi noticed something wrong and was intelligent to observe Krishna's plight and she observed some cloth of the same colour which Krishna was wearing being carried by the freshes far away. She immediate tore half of her cloth and threw it to Krishna to wear and come out. Such a thoughtful action was apprciated by Krishna and helped him to wear it and leave the river. This incident must have been registered in the mind of Krishna who at the proper time ensured Dhraupadhi's cloth was never ending when pulled by Duschadhan in the Hasthinapuram court of Dhuryodhan.
When every one was spell bound by the miracle performed by Dhraupadhi's waist cloth becoming longer and longer tiring the cruel Duschadhan to fall down completely exhausted was the news of the day. It reached the blind king and his queen Gandhari too. They both rushed to the court and blessed Dhraupadhi for the divine help she obtained. Dhritharashtra told her '' Dhraupadhi you are a devout worshipper of your husbands and always exhibited matchless Vishnu bakthi. It has helped you timely. I want to grant you two wishes within my limit. Please ask me what you wish me to do?''
''Oh king, my husbands are also kings, they lost only the game they played and were cheated. They have not done wrong to anyone. So you should not allow them to stand semi nude here. Please give them back their upper cloth. The second wish is let them not be deprived of their head gear, the crowns they usually wear as they were well known with them only.'' The king granted the two wishes asked and the Pandavas got back their upper cloth and crowns.
Upto now you have been retold in part what you already read, and the last part of it is Dhuryodhana's treacherous plan to send the short tempered Rishi Dhurvas to go with his numerous disciples -- in some records we note that the disciples were abdout 60,000 or so, not just a dozens or hundreds. --- to go to Kamya Van, where Pandavas were staying in exile . Dhuryodhana knew when the precious Akshayapathra would be useless and selected that time for the Rishi and his large numbner of dischiples to report to Pandavas for bikshas. If Yudhishatra was unable to feed the Rishi, naturally he would curse the Pandavas which will add fuel to fire for them. Dhuryodhana wanted the Pandavas to always suffer. Unfortunately for Dhuryodhana, the Pandavas had the greatest support in the form of Krishna, and so all his plans were countered effectively and became futile.
Dhuryodhana's plan worked exactly as he carefully organised it but at the last moment Krishna turned up and performed a miracle which resulted in the Rishi and his numerous disciples returning back without desiring to eat anything for the day from Pandavas. In fact the happy Dhurbas whole heartedly blessed Yudhishtra and the other Pandavas all the success in their efforts in life. Did Dhuryodhan expect this or would wish this to happen?
You were nice in recalling all these in this story to understand that Krishna is a redeemer, a rescuer and will be ready to help anytime if we whole heartedly pray to him.
66 "the eveready rescuer"
Dear Children
You have been reading and learning about Dhraupadhi, the wife of Pandavas. She is worshipped as a deity because she is treated as one of the Panch Maha Kanyakaas. She was born in the holy fire out of the Yagna performed by the king of Panchal, Dhrupadh. She was brought up as his pet daughter and so she got the name after him as Draupadhi, which you already know while reading the previous stories.
Draupadhi was an ardent devotee of Krishna. Krishna was very affectionate to her and was instrumental in her marrying Arjuna by winning the Mathsyendhram competition which also you read in a previous story. In fact Dhrupadha at one stage was thinking of marrying her to Krishna. But Krishna declined at the very beginning when the thought was expressed saying ''Dhraupadhi is for ever my best affectionate saki. I cannot imagine her to be a wife. It was Krishna's suggestion that Dhrupadh should hold a swayamvara in which a competition should be held for participation by all the kings and princes and winner of the Mathsyendram competition should be decisive in selecting the would be husband of Dhraupadhi.
You will refresh your memory by recalling an earlier story detailing how Arjuna participated in the competition as a brahmin youth and won by hitting the Mathsyendram and was declared the winner and husband of Dhraupadhi.
Krishna knew there will be a future war in which the Kauravas would be annihilated by the Pandavas and he was always known as KAPATA NAATAKA SUTHRADHARI - the main regulator or conductor of the drama of wits and outwits in which none could match Krishna.
The old blind king Dhritharashtran was quite partial towards his late brother Pandu's young children Pandavas, and when they grew up he allotted the best and largest part of his kingdom, with Hasthinapur as its capital for his 100 sons, headed by Dhuryodhana. The vacant dry stony desert area Kandava Van, as part of his kingdom for the Pandavas to build a city capital and rule. It was a barren land with no irrigation facility to cultivate. However Krishna was there for the Pandavas to convert it into a fertile land and Krishna organised the construction of abeautiful capital city named Indra Prastha for the Pandavas. The heavenly sculptor Mayan exclusively designed it for Pandavas as a marvellous architectural beauty. Krishna very well knew that it was because of Dhuryodhana's exerting pressure on the blind king which resulted in the Pandavas getting the barren land and he therefore helped Pandavas with special care on them. He saw Dhraupadhi's disappointed looks when she first viewed the land apportioned for Pandavas. It moved him and resulted in the beautiful Indraprastha to come into existence. I remind you this to prove that Krishna had always loved Pandavas and specially Dhraupadhi as his pet sister and devotee.
Dhuryodhana felt defeated when he ultimately witnessed the beauty of Indraprastha and the name and fame Pandavas got from the citizens ruled by Yudhishtra and his illustrious brothers.
Dhuryodhana was an incarnation of jealousy, envy, hatred and anger and specially enmity towards his cousin brothers Pandavas. The main cause of this was the steady and systematic growth of Pandavas' bravery, valour and the people's love for Yudhishtra's justice and honest ruling of the citizens, sincerety, honesty and interest in governing them safely.
Dhuryodhana was sleepless for many days after he was taken aback by the rich and grandeur celebration of the housewarming of the Indraprastha capital in which along with him many other princes and kings were present on special invitation by Pandavas. His fall in presence of Dhraupadhi into the water pool was a thorn in the flesh for him.
He decided to revenge Dhraupadhi and devised a scheme with the help of his evil uncle Shakuni who planned the devious gambling game in which Yudhishtra was trapped. Since Yudhishtra accepted the invitation to play on Dhuryodhana's request, Krishna could not stop and welcomed it. He knew that everyhthing was moving as per the master plan already designed. Sakuni was the root cause for the destruction of Kauravas was within the knowledge of Krishna and he simply observed everything and interfered wherever it was needed.
Krishna knew that the dice used by Dhuryodhana and Yudhishtra in the gambling game was made of the leg bone of Sakuni's father and would certainly show only the number he called and thought. Whereas it would not do so when Yudhishtra wanted a specific number. This will ultimately result in Yudhishtra losing the games and there will be no chance for him to recover was also known to Krishna well in advance.
He allowed this because he wanted Sakuni to be the main cause for the Pandavas to be enraged against him and Karuvas and concentrate in killing them in the war to take place between them.
Krishna however did not allow Dhraupadhi to be put to shame by her cloth being pulled out of her by the cruel Dhuschadhan, who wanted her to stand nude in front of all the Kauravas and their supporters in the courtt particularly in presence of her husbands who were rendered powerless and helpless. The innocent Pandavas and Dhraupadhi suffered a lot out of all these and always sough the help of Krishna their best friend and ''aapath sahaaya''
Here let me tell you an interesting side story relevant to this.
Once the Pandavas with Dhraupathi along with krishna went on a pilgrimage. At a particular place, they came across a jungle river which was very big almost appearing like an ocean, running in full speed with a deafening noise coming down from heights. Arjuna the bravest warrior was always interested in swimming in rivers. So he suggested that all of them can halt for a while, and take bath in the river before moving further.
After playing in the river for a long time the Pandavas got out of the river except Krishna. He was standing in the river upto his waist level. The cloth he was wearing had been carried away by the current of the river water and he was wondering how to get a replacement cloth and thought Arjuna would come to his rescue. But all the Pandavas got out and were moving. Dhraupadhi noticed something wrong and was intelligent to observe Krishna's plight and she observed some cloth of the same colour which Krishna was wearing being carried by the freshes far away. She immediate tore half of her cloth and threw it to Krishna to wear and come out. Such a thoughtful action was apprciated by Krishna and helped him to wear it and leave the river. This incident must have been registered in the mind of Krishna who at the proper time ensured Dhraupadhi's cloth was never ending when pulled by Duschadhan in the Hasthinapuram court of Dhuryodhan.
When every one was spell bound by the miracle performed by Dhraupadhi's waist cloth becoming longer and longer tiring the cruel Duschadhan to fall down completely exhausted was the news of the day. It reached the blind king and his queen Gandhari too. They both rushed to the court and blessed Dhraupadhi for the divine help she obtained. Dhritharashtra told her '' Dhraupadhi you are a devout worshipper of your husbands and always exhibited matchless Vishnu bakthi. It has helped you timely. I want to grant you two wishes within my limit. Please ask me what you wish me to do?''
''Oh king, my husbands are also kings, they lost only the game they played and were cheated. They have not done wrong to anyone. So you should not allow them to stand semi nude here. Please give them back their upper cloth. The second wish is let them not be deprived of their head gear, the crowns they usually wear as they were well known with them only.'' The king granted the two wishes asked and the Pandavas got back their upper cloth and crowns.
Upto now you have been retold in part what you already read, and the last part of it is Dhuryodhana's treacherous plan to send the short tempered Rishi Dhurvas to go with his numerous disciples -- in some records we note that the disciples were abdout 60,000 or so, not just a dozens or hundreds. --- to go to Kamya Van, where Pandavas were staying in exile . Dhuryodhana knew when the precious Akshayapathra would be useless and selected that time for the Rishi and his large numbner of dischiples to report to Pandavas for bikshas. If Yudhishatra was unable to feed the Rishi, naturally he would curse the Pandavas which will add fuel to fire for them. Dhuryodhana wanted the Pandavas to always suffer. Unfortunately for Dhuryodhana, the Pandavas had the greatest support in the form of Krishna, and so all his plans were countered effectively and became futile.
Dhuryodhana's plan worked exactly as he carefully organised it but at the last moment Krishna turned up and performed a miracle which resulted in the Rishi and his numerous disciples returning back without desiring to eat anything for the day from Pandavas. In fact the happy Dhurbas whole heartedly blessed Yudhishtra and the other Pandavas all the success in their efforts in life. Did Dhuryodhan expect this or would wish this to happen?
You were nice in recalling all these in this story to understand that Krishna is a redeemer, a rescuer and will be ready to help anytime if we whole heartedly pray to him.