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Video information: 15.06.2024, Vedant: Basics to Classics, Greater Noida
Context:
~ What does Mahabharat reveal?
~ What can we learn from the characters of Mahabharat?
~ Did every character in Mahabharat attain enlightenment?
~ What ought to be the purpose of life?
~ Is Shri Krishna a person?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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Video information: 15.06.2024, Vedant: Basics to Classics, Greater Noida
Context:
~ What does Mahabharat reveal?
~ What can we learn from the characters of Mahabharat?
~ Did every character in Mahabharat attain enlightenment?
~ What ought to be the purpose of life?
~ Is Shri Krishna a person?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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00:00So my question is on the setting of the Bhagavad Gita in general.
00:06So in the Mahabharata and in the whole of Aryavarta, Krishna was the most capable ruler
00:13and in the best position to fight the Kauravas.
00:16So why did he choose to go through the Pandavas?
00:19Why did he not take up the reins himself?
00:22History does not bear that out.
00:26Sri Krishna himself had to go towards the southwest because he didn't want to be in
00:39a hostile environment.
00:42So it might not really be factually true that Krishna himself was best placed to fight the
00:50war or something.
00:53Had that been the case, had that been practically feasible, probably he would have taken that
01:00route.
01:07Think of where Dwarka is and in those times, it wasn't a very pretty
01:19proposition to go that far down south, southwest.
01:32This was the central kingdom, Hastinapur.
01:39The largest army and the resources and everything.
01:43The Mahabharata tells us of various instances when rulers of Hastinapur actually went about
01:54conquering all the neighboring kingdoms, Ashwamedha and all.
02:03So there is a reason to believe that Hastinapur itself was the central power.
02:17See there is nothing else that guides the actions of a wise learned, I'm not saying
02:30enlightened or illuminated.
02:33Simply let's just keep it earthly and say a learned, compassionate being.
02:43General good, the welfare of the masses.
02:51That is the last objective.
02:55If you have nothing left to do for yourself, what else would you do?
03:02You are still not dead.
03:05The body is still capable and moving around.
03:11You have a few years, let's say a few decades to live.
03:15You spend it in relieving others of the misery that you had once experienced for yourself.
03:28So Krishna does not want the population of Hastinapur to suffer and he will take the
03:37most appropriate route possible.
03:40That's what he has taken.
03:56In fact, as you know, after the war of Mahabharata, even Dwaraka did not last long.
04:03If we are to believe the legend, so note that Shri Krishna was some miraculously omnipotent
04:15divine figure.
04:22In the field of Prakriti, nobody is omnipotent.
04:26Only Prakriti is.
04:33Human beings take birth in the common sense of the word, live then die.
04:43That's all.
04:45There is no omnipotence there.
04:49There is no eternity there.
04:55There is a thing called a supernatural being.
04:57All beings are natural, Prakritic.
05:03So is Shri Krishna as a human being.
05:11And he is doing the maximum that he can do as a human being.
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