Mahabharat: See my first guru told us how this whole epic is all about the body. Bhishma is the intellect so all the arrows shot at him don’t kill him. The intellect has sworn to take care of the body till its safe. So think about the brothers as the 5 senses, all senses are married to what? The mind (Draupadhi). The 5 Bothers/Pandavs are meant to be the 5 senses.

Draupadhi gets stripped by the baddies right and she keeps holding on to her clothes with one hand and reaching out to Krishna (awareness) with the other one. Its only when she lets go of her threads and reaches out to Krishna with everything that she is rescued (awareness saves her).

So like if the 5 brothers (Pandavas) are our 5 senses and 100 brothers (Kauravas) are your good and bad desires/tendencies you could say. Krishna tells Arjuna that it’s his duty to kill his step brothers good or bad so that the body (Hastinapur) will be free of desires.

I don’t know what Dhritarashtra is but because he is blind he could be ego? And his wife Gandhari voluntarily blinds herself so she could be pride?

None of the Pandavas were born of their mother’s husband, Pandu. Their mother, Kunti, had been given a chant, which invoked various gods who fathered the Pandavas. The Sun was the father of Karna. Dharma, the god of duty was the father of Yudhishthir and Indra the king of gods was the father of Arjuna. The god of wind, symbolising strength, was the father of Bhishma and the Ashwini Kumars were the fathers of Nakul and Sahdev.

So basically Mahabharat is the story of the wars that go on in/on us all the time. You think this is crazy wait till you read the knowledge Paramhansa’s guru gave him on the Bible.

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Another version

It is said in the texts that 80% of the fighting male population of the civilization was wiped out in the eighteen days Mahabharata war.

Sanjay, at the end of the war went to the spot where the greatest war took place; Kurukshetra.He looked around and wondered if the war really happened, if the ground beneath him had soaked all that blood, if the great Pandavas and Krishna stood where he stood.

“You will never know the truth about that!” said an aging soft voice.

Sanjay turned around to find an Old man in saffron robes appearing out of a column of dust. “I know you are here to find out about the Kurukshetra war, but *you cannot know about that war till you know what the real war is about*.” the Old man said enigmatically.“What do you mean?” *The Mahabharata is an Epic, a ballad, perhaps a reality, but definitely a philosophy*.

The Old man smiled luring Sanjay into more questions.

“Can you tell me what the philosophy is then?” Sanjay requested.

Sure, began the Old man.

*The Pandavas are nothing but your five senses*, sight, smell, taste, touch and sound…, and do you know what the *Kauravas* are? he asked narrowing his eyes. *The Kauravas are the hundred vices that attack your senses everyday but you can fight them*… and do you know how?

Sanjay shook his head again.“When Krishna rides your chariot!”

The Old man smiled brighter and Sanjay gasped at that gem of insight.

*Krishna is your inner voice, your soul, your guiding light and if you let your life in his hands you have nothing to worry*.

Sanjay was stupefied but came around quickly with another question.“Then *why are Dronacharya and Bhishma fighting for the Kauravas, if they are vices*?”The Old man nodded, sadder for the question. It just means that as you grow up, your perception of your elders change. *The elders who you thought were perfect in your growing up years are not all that perfect. They have faults. And one day you will have to decide if they are for your good or your bad. Then you may also realize that you may have to fight them for the good. It is the hardest part of growing up and that is why the Geeta is important*.

Sanjay slumped down on the ground, not because he was tired but because he could understand and was struck by the enormity of it all.

*What about Karna*? he whispered.“Ah!” said the Old man. “You have saved the best for last. *Karna is the brother to your senses, he is desire, he is a part of you but stands with the vices. He feels wronged and makes excuses for being with the vices as your desire does all the time.* *Does your desire not give you excuses to embrace vices*?”

Sanjay nodded silently. He looked at the ground, consumed with a million thoughts, trying to put everything together and then when he looked up the Old man was gone…. He disappeared into the column of dust………leaving behind the great philosophy of Life!

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Saiganesh Sairaman has done a great job in this playlist saving some wisdom from Paramhansa Yogananda

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News just in! My niece and her friend have released a book for children on the story Gita: The Battle of the Worlds