In the previous episode, we’ve witnessed everything in readiness for the war to commence. The “Shankams” (Sirens) of all the key warriors in the battlefield on both sides go off with a great sound, which creates a lot of reverberations in the atmosphere around them! Bhagawan Krishna too blows His “Paanchajanyam” aloud to add to the deafening sound that is being produced! The moment Duryodhana hears the “Paanchajanyam”, a kind of fear grips him as he gets ready to fight the battle. Meanwhile, as all the “Shankams” go off, Arjuna has a sudden thought in his mind. He wants to have a closer look at both the armies before he commences the battle. Hence, he orders Bhagawan Krishna who is his charioteer to take him to the middle of the battlefield. Accordingly, Bhagawan Krishna obeys Arjuna’s words, but He has other thoughts in His mind already! 🙂 He drives the chariot to a strategic location from where Arjuna could see the entire army at a stretch from that point itself! Thus, Arjuna casts a look around him, even as Bhagawan Krishna is observing him keenly!
As we see here, Bhagawan Krishna strategically chooses a location wherein the chariot goes and stands right in front of Bhishmachaarya and Guru Dhronachaarya. We might wonder here – Why didn’t Bhagawan Krishna stop the chariot in front of Duryodhana and Ducchaasana? Why did He select Bhishmachaarya and Guru Dhronachaarya? Had Bhagawan Krishna rode the chariot in front of Duryodhana and Ducchaasana, there would have been no Bhagawad Gita at all! 🙂 The moment Arjuna would have seen these two people closely, the war would have begun then and there and Arjuna would have chopped off both their heads! He would have immediately remembered that dreadful scene of the Hastinapura courtroom where Draupati was insulted publicly and how Ducchaasana mercilessly unstripped her in front of everyone! With this very thought, Arjuna would have seized his arrows and his Gaandeepa would have been employed with full force then and there! However, Bhagawan Krishna has other plans, isn’t it? He wanted to somehow pull down Arjuna emotionally, so that He can use Arjuna to gift the divine Bhagawad Gita to the entire world! Bhagawan Krishna is a divine strategist! He knows exactly what He is doing!
In the previous episode, we had witnessed a question on similar lines – Why is Bhagawan Krishna obeying Arjuna’s orders? It should be the other way round, isn’t it? The answer is here in this episode – Only if Bhagawan Krishna would have obeyed Arjuna’s orders to steer the chariot in between the two armies, we would have obtained the Bhagawad Gita today! Had it been the opposite – That is – If Bhagawan would have replied back thus, “Oh Arjuna! I’m the Paramatman! You’ve to obey my words and I would not obey yours!” – What would have happened? Arjuna might not have argued much, as he too knows that Bhagawan Krishna is all-pervasive and the supreme. Thus, Arjuna would have gone nowhere and the war would have begun. But what about the Bhagawad Gita? How would it come? Thus, we can clearly see here that if Bhagawan obeys the words of the “Jeevatma”, there is something behind it clearly!
Thus, coming back to this discussion, Bhagawan Krishna strategically steers the chariot and parks it right in front of Bhishmachaarya and Guru Dhronachaarya. Upon seeing both of them standing amidst the enemy camp, Arjuna’s emotions start to change! Until this point, he was extremely ferocious and was ready to go for the kill, irrespective of whoever was standing on the opposite side. However, the moment he sees these two senior people in front of him, Arjuna’s thought process starts to change! So what is this change? What is Arjuna thinking now? An interesting accord awaits us in the next episode! Stay tuned! 🙂
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