Showing posts with label Eternal Values. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Eternal Values. Show all posts

Friday, 5 August 2011

Karna

Karna/ Radheya/ Suryaputra Kaunteya
After the fall of Drona on the 15th day of the disastrous Kurukshetra War, Duryodhna installed Radheya as successor Commander-in-Chief.  Radheya felt gratified for affording an opportunity to repay his gratitude to him by killing Arjuna.  Being fatalistic, he felt that destiny, right from his birth when his own mother Kunti abandoned him, may not help him, hence the fighting may not be ordinary and  fate may not be in his favour.
The fighting started  between Bhima and Dushsasana, where Bhima removed the hand that had held Draupadi by the hair 13 years earlier and threw it in the battlefield crying that he had redeemed his terrible oath.

Thursday, 4 August 2011

Nachiketas : Value of Truth

Truth will lead one to the Absolute.  This has been explained by the story of Nachiketas in Mahabharata and Kathopanishad. 
  According to the Anusana Parva of Mahabharata, Nachiketas, the son of Uddalaki, was a sage of bygone days.   The ashram served his father, who devoted his time in performing  various sacrifices for the benefit of the society.