In the previous episode, we had witnessed Bhagawan Krishna rejecting Duryodhana’s hospitality and food offer. As Duryodhana offers all the best-in-class hospitality and a grand feast for lunch, Bhagawan Krishna silently rejects everything by asserting that it would be a huge blunder on His part to accept any of these things from an enemy. Until Surya Bhagawan (Sun God) and Chandra Bhagawan (Moon God) exist in this world, Bhagawan Krishna will never ever accept even a drop of water from an enemy’s place, as this would account to a huge “Adharmic” act. Rejecting Duryodhana’s hospitality on this basis, Bhagawan Krishna prefers to go along with Vidura to His house for the evening and the night. As this happens, Duryodhana starts fuming with anger because all his plans got foiled! Duryodhana asks Bhagawan Krishna angrily thus, “Oh Krishna! You’re rejecting my hospitality! You’re rejecting to stay with Bhishmachaarya and Guru Dhronachaarya as well! What does Vidura have in him? He is afterall a person who has nothing in his possession! What kind of hospitality is Vidura going to give you?”
Even as Duryodhana keeps ranting thus, Bhagawan Krishna just smiles and doesn’t reply anything to him! He just walks away along with Vidura! As Bhagawan Krishna decides on the spot to come to his house, Vidura doesn’t know what to do! He is scampering here and there for giving Bhagawan Krishna the best hospitality for the night. Unperturbed by all that, Bhagawan Krishna decides that if there’s one person with whom He can reside for that night at Hastinapura, it would only be Vidura and nobody else! Hence, as Bhagawan Krishna makes His way to Vidura’s house, the first thing that Vidura has in his mind in this – “Oh no! Till today I’ve been consuming the food and offerings that Duryodhana has been offering me! Because of that, what if some characteristics of “Adharma” might have got into me knowingly or unknowingly? Duryodhana has dug a huge pit for tomorrow’s event at the Hastinapura courtroom to trap Bhagawan Krishna with a wicked mindset. I hope I do not have such a wicked mindset in me just because I consumed Duryodhana’s food all these days and years!”
Thinking thus, as Vidura prepares Bhagawan Krishna’s “Aasana” (Seat), he touches the cushions of the “Aasana” just to make sure that there are no nails or any sharp items that might poke Bhagawan Krishna when He sits! Vidura caresses the “Aasana” twice and thrice even as Bhagawan Krishna is seeing what Vidura is doing! As Vidura makes sure that there are no sharp objects in the “Aasana”, he requests Bhagawan Krishna to be seated. As Bhagawan Krishna sits and gets comfortable. Both Vidura and Bhagawan Krishna are talking with each other happily. As the conversation continues for a while, it is now time for dinner and Bhagawan Krishna expresses His wish of eating some bananas for dinner.
As per Bhagawan Krishna’s request, Vidura’s wife brings a basket full of bananas and places it in front of both of them. Even as the conversation continues, Vidura peels off the skin of each banana and tries to give the fruit to Bhagawan Krishna. However, unfortunately as the conversation goes on deeply, Vidura mistakenly gives the peeled off skin to Bhagawan Krishna and throws the fruit in the basket! Even though Bhagawan Krishna knows what is happening, He happily accepts the skins and keeps eating them! He knows that Vidura is doing this unaware and this continues for a while! Thus, at one point when Vidura’s wife comes out of the kitchen, she sees this horrific happening! She immediately touches her husband in a bid to make him aware of what is happening! As his wife brings him back to his awareness, Vidura quickly realizes his folly and immediately falls on Bhagawan Krishna’s divine lotus feet and seeks forgiveness for the blunder that has been happening over the past few minutes!
So for today, let us understand up to this point and in the next episode, we shall witness Bhagawan Krishna’s reaction to this! Stay tuned! 🙂
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