Gita, Death Of Vishma

Writer Indira Mishra 

Gita in nutshell,

 

We Hindus perceive it as one religious book only. Gita the holy book was created in the field of violent war where brothers were ready to kill each other, war among brothers, uncle, guru, father and grandfather which was so aversion, hateration poison of jealousy, lust, revengeful rebellion, right of prince or kingdom exists. The right or human right of a king or a defeated king demands a war of religion as lord Krishna defines it. Yes, Mahabharat shows how brutally the kourav Sena killed Abhimanyu. How Dronnacharya was beheaded or killed by false hypocrisy, how Karna was killed without his chariot, how pita maha visma was shot cunningly lying on the bed of arrows, at last sons of Pandavas were killed with conspiracy by Aswasthama. 

They were killed by the conspiracy of all-mighty power of Lord Krishna who had created such a historical war in the name of dharma yudha with the help of Pandavas without using arrows or bow. He has used sudarsan chhakkra but not to kill any warrior. He had protected pandavs always from dangers using sudarsan chakra hiding sun setting during Jaithratha death again protecting Subhadra's son in her womb from brahmastra. At last, Dhrutarastra was seeing the killing, death of his hundred sons one by one on the battlefield who sacrificed their lives for the stubbornness, shrewdness or desires of Duryodhana to kill Pandavas always. How the ambitions, imprudence, greediness, selfishness of Dhrutarastra with the excessive attachment for his sons whom he wanted to be the successor of the royal dynasty that due to his blindness Dhrutarastra had lost it once. He had an attachment to the royal throne which he did not want to give up to his nephews Pandavas. His weakness created rivalry, insecurity in the minds of Kauravas from childhood. The bitter truth of our religious epics, which we must know. All Hindus should know what is the essence of the Mahabharat war. I want to explain the details which we can perceive in our superior part of conscience or highest ethics, moralism we define as our holy book "Bhagwat Gita" acknowledges it, the concept of dharma and adharma. This is the war of dharma yudha, the battle of religious crisis. 

It is not the war between Muslim's religious faith or Hindus religious crisis, it is not the rebellious minds of religious crisis among Christianity, Muslim, and Hinduism religious war. It is not the war between countries colonialism or war for conquering countries territory. Colonialism. One war in tragedy, tragedy in the sense we were killing our own kith and kin daily during Mahabharat war. What Krishna showed in his biswarupa that every worrier mingles inside his supreme soul like millions of souls mingle in his supreme abode. Lives are going inside his body and again they are taking birth in due course of time. Souls never destroyed or perished. Battle of Mahabharat is a dilemma, conflict in our earthly passion desires attachments. The whole war or events were created by supreme God which lord Krishna declared as he is not attached with karmas (actions) nor he is the creator of karmas (actions) Neither he is prarabdha, previous karmas nor he is the cause of karmas. He never enjoys the consequences of karmas(actions). 

Human beings suffer for the consequences of their actions good and bad. Desires create actions. Good desires create good actions, bad desires create bad actions. Desires provoke good or bad actions, even if a man takes sannyasa but he is bound with actions like begging alms to live. Thoughts provoking actions or thinking process never stop to work. A human being is the superior intelligent rational race among all animals. In human life, man can get salvation which is the superior or ultimate goal of human life in this birth of precious human's life. A man takes 86 lakhs of births in an evolutionary process of getting one human life. Man can get salvation if he tries his best to achieve salvation or moksha. It is one continuous process of detachment from earthly passions or attachment in surrendering the supreme abode, it is said during the death of one human being if he concentrates or aims at the thought of lord Krishna forgetting all attachments of his own kith and kin then definitely he achieves to salvation or moksha or nirvana being freed from all earthly passions or bondage to be liberated from earthly life, he gets the celestial heavenly body or supreme abode to enter in 'param Dham Baikuntha Dham' where the delicate earthly body or desires never get rebirth in the earth. Salvation or eternity persists in Baikuntha param Brahma rupam. If the restless mind desires more then pain never liberates from earthly attachments of his own kith and kins, if he desires more for rebirth then he gets that type of life again, even one should not get any anger or revenge or aversion or greediness on any person at the time of his death leaving the earth. This may create one more birth of revenge or enmity in the next birth. Vices and virtues have lost their meaning or significance in due course of time or yuga. The vices like killing cows were considered as the killing of Brahma hatya in other yugas. Now in kalliyug killing of cows, goats, hens are not considered as 'Brahma hatya'. Rather it is the source of earnings for the human race, people survive through the nonvegetarian food supply. People in foreign countries mostly are nonvegetarians, they rely on nonvegetarian food for their nourishment. Like this sexual relationship of women in dwapara or Satya yuga was considered as a vice, they could not marry more than one husband, the case of Draupadi was different. How the sons were so obedient to their mother creates confusion in such a story of Draupadi's character. Obviously, swaybar was the system of choosing their own husband dignifies the dignity of women status in ancient Indian culture of dynasty royal families. The war of Mahabharat was based on the rivalry, crisis, conflicts in royal families where the history depicts the culture of kings or monarchism relating to the glorious history of sastras, Puranas, Mahabharat the epics, the battle which created the holy book of Gita. Bible also depicts the life story tragedies, miseries, sufferings of Lord Jesus which made him a God. His purity, divineness, sacrifices, purification of sins, ultimately the highest mercy of forgiveness to devils or satans who killed him on the cross with thrones bleeding till death. 

Gita also repeats the same tragic stories of bloodshed, killing of the innocent like Bhisma, Dronnacharya, krupacharya, Saillya, Karna who had to fight in support of Duryodhan and his brothers for the sake of duty, patriotism, sense of obligation for the kingdom's loyalty, the concept of virtues compelled or enforced them to fight such battle. Hence revolution treachery conspiracy against the kingdom or country was the highest vice during that time. No warrior wanted to violate the rules of royal families, rules of war also. They were so faithful obedient in following their principles of war in a dutiful dignified way. In kalliyug, no one can faith their own national party leaders or members because all are treacherous for their own selfish image or publicity. Anyone can ditch or fraud or betray for power and establishment. No party is loyal or faithful to the kingdom or country or patriotism. Ministers in parliament can sell the country in debts and hires. They can kill them against party members' treacherous way to get power. Brutality, violence cross the limit in party rivalries. It was the same conspiracy, the war of power, hypocrisy we can find from the beginning in the battle of dice game, gambling. We can find the treaties, promises followed by Pandavas without any solid strong reason which created revenge in the mind of Draupadi who was harrassed, illtreated humiliated, and raped by Kauravas but Pandavas never violated the rules of warlike gambling or real war against the royal dynasty. 

They were representatives of truth, obedience, and honesty. Lord Krishna who is considered as the God, had created such war of Mahabharat, a battle of the war in between dharma and adharma, vices and virtues. He was not fighting the war directly but indirectly he was guiding his war to Arjuna. He had encouraged Arjuna giving him moral support to fight such war for the establishment of truth and dharma. "Yada yada hi dharmasya glanirbhabati Bharata abhyuthanam adharmasya paritrannaya sadhunam binasayascha duskrutam dharma santhapanarthaya sambhabami yuge yuge... he takes birth to protect religion and truth in this earth. So, Lord Krishna could realize the importance or significance or essential of cunningness or hypocrisy to win the battle of injustice violence war despotic barbarism war of cruelty treachery with both might and wisdom. 

If lord Krishna would not support Pandavas to play all hypocrisies then they might not have won the battle of Mahabharat. He had saved the life of Arjuna from Pitamaha Vishma in conspiracy hiding behind srikhandi to shoot the arrows in vishma's body in several holes. Dharmaraj Yudhistira was instructed to say lies about the death of Aswasthama, his son which shocked Dronacharya to be deadly while cunningly he was killed. Karna was cunningly asked to give up the war, he was promised not to kill his brothers by his own mother, one more cunningness played by lord Krishna emotionally. 

Again I want to throw light on the art of Gita, the holy Granth of Hindus that each phrase or chapter is thoroughly explained by lord Krishna that this war is inevitable, unavoidable to establish dharma. This war created Bhagwat Gita the divine nectar of the Ganga river which satisfies the thirst or pursuit or search of life. What is birth, rebirth, and destiny of life? What are the karmas and the purpose of karmas? What is previous birth? What is the purpose of human life? Why human beings have taken birth? How karmas or actions create desires or provoke human beings to create good works or bad works. 

The concept of virtues and vices, the nature of gunnas. Then how to achieve God. The ways or yogas like Guyana, bhakti, and karma inspires the human being to achieve salvation or moksha or nirbanna, ultimately the supreme goal of human's life, the desire to get the liberation or salvation from human's earthly life to path of eternity mingling with the supreme lord in mokhya paramdham ,vishnu dham. The highest truth, penance, tolerance to injustice, the war against all frustrations, miseries, sufferings physical pain, torture agony as well as mental detachment from own kith and kins who follow the path of destruction or adharma. The violent war to kill vices, attachment from the minds of the warriors, warriors only fight for the victory being duty-bound or faithful to their kings and kingdom. It is the war of patriotism and dharma or religion. 

One more fact, war never brings peace and happiness through war. It satisfies the revengeful mind, false ego for the satisfaction of ego and vanity only. Draupadi took revenge for her humiliation by Dusasana and Durjodhana . She used to provoke Pandavas the humiliation, the injustice she had been suffering throughout her life for the revengeful war a rebellious mind for the winning back of their kingdom Hastinapur or equivalent of possession of lost states Indraprastha also. Ultimately Bhima was successful in taking revenge on killing dushasana in cruelty and violence slaying his hands, tearing his heart in blood cleansing the hairs of Draupadi in that blood, these are obviously cruelty against one civilization. 

Here it is mentioned that the same way many Kauravas had together attacked Abhimanyu, they had killed him mercilessly which goes against the rules of war. One more thing is guru Dronnachharya was beheaded or killed by Drustadyumna when the news Aswasthama was killed by Bhima. Ultimately the war created conspiracy, hypocrisy while five sons of Pandavas of Draupadi were killed by Jaydratha. Again Pandavas promised to kill Durjodhana and 

Jaidratha. Now Kunti and Draupadi regretted foreseeing terrific consequences of war which they could not be able to visualize the consequences of terrific war in revengeful minds, right consciousness to get their  right and justice. They cried in panic that they hate revenge if they would have known the consequences of war for absolute destruction, ruins of the kingdom, they would never demand for their right or revenge ful mind which was affected,humiliated, hurt by poisonouswords or deeds of Dussasana and Duryodhana. Such type of revengeful war or right consciousness war for justice can create only destructions,  ruins and death. Thousands died, the bodies were lying on the cremation ground, all Kauravas princes killed by Pandavas. Many died in the name of duty  sacrificing their lifes in the war of dharma or justice what Lord Krishna said.

Pitamaha Bhisma was lying on the bed of arrows being shot through his body. Karna was killed by Arjuna when his chariot was stuck on earth. He was over confidently fighting against Arjuna, his only rival whom he hates most to prove his skills, excellence against Arjuna. He had followed the promises not to kill another brother he had given to his mother Kunti. He had not broken. The end of the war, any war, world war one, two, or three never find a good result. China. and Pakistan were countries of world wars Germany, France Russia, and England, all have gone through the terrific consequences of world wars two cities Hiroshima and nagasaki suffered the destructions worst affected. Mahatma Gandhi was against such war he was anti-Marxism. Jawaharlal Nehru with Mahatma Gandhi refused to take part in world wars under the colonialism of the British government. They had boycotted war, violence, and battle. The incidents of war show Bhagat Singh, Lala Lajpat Ray, Subash Chandra bose also had fought the war but they could not bring independence through war. Mahatma Gandhi had fought a war of nonviolence, 

no killings no bloodshed to achieve freedom. He could win the war with the weapon of non violence only, one more war of dharma yuda with patience and sacrifices without bloodshed,  kiling and violence. 

War never establishes peace, it enhances violence violently. Lord Krishna had won the mahabharat battle cunningly, obviously, he had used sudarsan chakkra dice several times to hide the sun for the killing of Jaidratha, again he used chakkra in protecting the son of subhadra from brahmastra. Krishna had always protected Arjuna from the worst affected weapons or arrows from karna then karna was killed cunningly by Arjuna. The whole war was fought by lord krishna asif pre planned or predetermined to be fought against injustice and adharma in killing vices for the establishment of peace and dharma or religion. At last Durjodhana fought the last battle with Bhima which Bhima had won the war. Everything lord Krishna had done. 

The whole Mahabharata war was directed and fought by lord krishna only. He is not attached with karmas or consequences of karmas , men suffer for their own karmas or actions which are their praravdha or predetermined that he should suffer during his life time to get salvation. Renunciation or consequences of their actions to be detached from attachments, desires, false ambitions which Dhrutarastra wanted to see in his sons. He was an over-ambitious imprudent greedy rebellious overconfident king of Hastinapura who created the Mahabharat war without knowing the lord Vishnu or Lord Krishna, the incarnation of God himself. Ultimately he realized the bitter truth of why the war was created so destructively killing innocent soldiers on the battlefield. The story ends with the death of Duryodhana who was hiding in the water of a pond. At last, he was killed by Pandava brother Bhima. The story does not end there until the death of pita maha vishma took his death on his willingness. He wanted to take refugee in lord Krishna while leaving the earth or earthly life from the earth, he wanted to concentrate on lord Krishna to achieve moksha or salvation. 

His soul wanted to go 'Baikuntha param Dham or Bishnu loka' where the eternal soul rests in eternal bliss forever not taking the form of human life in human yoni or species once again according to his desires and earthly passions. He wanted to be liberated from human life or the riddle or wheel or chakra of life and death. He wanted his soul to be liberated from all attachments desires and bondage which is the supreme aim or goal of human life in human birth on this planet earth where humans serve as superior species of living animals category invariably fighting against the hazards, curses, or tragedies of nature or environment. Living animals or human beings cannot survive in other planets, with no oxygen no water. Scientists discovered only fire and fire. Some planets are freezing like cold ice . One thing scientists have reached in space, wandering in the sky, universe, various stars, moon venus, and mangal planet. Earth rotates around the sun, all planets rotate around the sun simultaneously rotating around their own axis keeping the distance.  The way it persists from thousands of years when the civilization of human beings primitive tribal ancient time or yugas of Satya dwapara kalli. The time of beda when no living being was created or born except amoba then fish and tortoise avatars of lord Vishnu we can say. These are miracles, blessings of God who created the earth, living, and nonliving beings but the life sources of water, plants who give us life, who protect our lives on this earth. Then the god himself protects our lives as sun and moon giving us light. We must be thankful to God who created earth water trees and fruits giving us lives. We must be grateful to Lord Krishna or Allah who is the creator of the whole universe who saved our lives from vices and adharma giving us moksha or salvation the desires people used to urge at the time of his death. We are fortunate for having such precious meaningful dedicated lives for duties or karmas, desires which create karmas of attachment in leading a duty bounded life for the war of sacrifices, penance, renunciation of actions or desires preparing us to get salvation or rebirth according to our desires. We used to fight the war of justice and injustice or vices etc. At last pitamaha Vishma had got the salvation , his soul was liberated from the wheel of re birth or earthly passions, desires being purified in physical pain and desires. His soul mingled with lord krishna in Baikuntha or paramdham.