Mahabharata is the analogical dualism of a human being. Everything that has happened is happening and will happen in the future is already covered in Mahabharata…Some once also said that Maharishi Vyasa tasted everything in-universe. The Mahabharata seems like a war story.

There a man was elevated to the level of God in Ramayana and in Mahabharata, a god is brought down to the level of man. 

The Mahabharata has marvelous reach for adaptation, variance, and twist. Scholars, intellectuals, politicians and common men have made full use of the epic. The epic, its characters, themes, situations, instances, teachings, parallels, and implications have been fully appreciated, accepted and enjoyed in India.

Today, We are discussing current social life and try to compare it with the Mahabharata era, and then will understand the relevance of it in current era.

So, let’s get some basic questions, what we see in our society

Mahabharata in this era

Aren’t there…

• Clever politicians like Sri Krishna and evil conspirators like Shakuni in our society today.
• Family rivalry over properties leads to legal battles and unfair means to win the case just like the Kurukshetra War.
• Women are still subjected to molestation and humiliation just like Draupadi’s Vastraharan
• Husbands like Yudhisthir consider their wives as property.
• Unmarried mothers like Kunti are afraid of infamy and scandal due to their illegitimate child and so to abandon them just like Karna?
• Fathers like Dhritarashtra blindly support every misdeed of their beloved sons?
• Discrimination in society on the basis of birth just like Karna faced in Mahabharata?

With these questions, we can easily say that this Kalyug is nothing but a later stage of Dwapara Yug, where nothing changes its basic identity.

Everyone is accepted and revered:

Satyavati wasn’t a virgin before her marriage to Shantanu. She was the mother of Ved Vyas whom she birthed with sage Parashara.

Pandu: He was “cursed” that whenever he tried to make love to a woman, he would die. He was not the biological father of the Pandavas,

Kunti who has birthed a child before marriage and is left alone to raise him, but cannot keep the baby because of public shame. Abandoning the baby, she committed a crime but such character who went through the same and still got accepted and revered you can’t find anywhere in the world?

Dhritarashtra: He was the blind king, who though possessing all necessary skills and wisdom,

Gandhari: She even sacrificed her vision for being one with her husband. A true synonyms of purity and obeisance, she met with nothing but more and more tragedies on her way.

Shikhandi: Do we have a character who was a transgender hero? She was born as a woman but transformed into a man. A great warrior

The great Analogies in Mahabharata

Dhritarashtra represents blind attachment and ambition. Ambition of Dhritarashtra blinded his good sense and made him support his son. Undue Attachments blinds a person and makes him to leave the path of righteousness

Duryodhan represents the unfettered Ego which can cause great destruction. The myth of ego without discipline will drive us towards the ledge of destruction

Bheeshma represents the power of will, a will directed towards a damning cause is not of any benefit to us.

Pandavas represent the absolute Human values Yudhisthira represents Honesty, Bheema represents Strength, Arjuna represents Knowledge Nakula and Sahadeva represent the Twin values of Equanimity and Wisdom.

Vidura represents the conscience, a conscience that can be suppressed if the negativity is strong enough

Krishna represents the Intellect and inherent divinity

The Learning lesson from Mahabharata

• Being kind, humble and generous is not enough to live life

  

• Bad company can ruin your life beyond imagination
• You need to fight for what you think belongs to you.
• Learning throughout life is the best gift you can give yourself
• Half knowledge can be more dangerous than no knowledge
• You cannot be stopped if you are passionate about what you do
• A good strategy is what you need to sail your boat
• Being a woman does not make you a lesser individual.

Mahabharat TV Series:

Mahabharat is a gateway to enter the unified soul of India. It is a culmination of our civilization, and it is our itihasa regardless of what the textbook says. This serial despite having its own flaws (because every work of art has to adapt contemporary social values and norms in which it is portrayed) remains outstanding work of art. Behind it is a vast effort of Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, priceless direction and matchless performance of characters who put their heart and soul in their acts. I would highly recommend this. Immerse yourself in the world of Mahabharata because it is yours and our shared history and culture, it is a way to realize dharma and Iswara.

Mahabharata Video

Summary:

• We as a human are always fighting the war between Good and Evil within our mind and soul.
• The Inner field of thoughts reflects in our external plane of actions.
• If we don’t realize our Kauravas in us, the blind ambition, unfettered Ego, the selfishness will determine the will and it will win..we Lose.
• If we realist the goodness in us and given the right direction by the intellect, we can fulfill our positivist to be happy and Pandavas will win.

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