They called be the best of the best. My weapons skills were
on point and no one could defeat me. I am Arjuna and I was standing there in
the battle field of Mahabharata 40 years ago. I didn’t want to fight. I was not
worried about losing, but about my family. I looked up straight and I could see
my Kaurava brothers, laughing in joy. I could see my guru, my uncles and
hundreds of my relatives. I loved them all and I in no means wanted to harm
them. I felt weak and I was terrified. I
had no life. There was no meaning to my life. I wanted to face them weaponless.
To win this battle by killing all of these people I love is not a victory. I
rather wanted to die and be killed.
I laid down on my chariot and the bow and arrow fell off
from me. Seeing me in pain, Krishna came to me and asked me what was
the issue. I told him about what I feel and the fact that I didn’t wanted to
fight with my own. Krishna then told me that this was a fight that had to
happen, it was a plan which god themselves made to teach the human kind a
lesson. Krishna told me that this was a fight between the two bodies not the
soul. We are made up of body and soul. The body dies but the soul never dies.
It just jumps from one body to other.
He further explained me that this was the battle between
good bodies versus the bad bodies. My weapons would kill the body but their
soul would be free and then they will have a different life again. I was
fighting against the bad and it didn’t matter who I was fighting with because I
was not killing the soul I was just freeing all the bad that they caged
themselves with so that they can start over their life being good. He also told
me that I and he was made up of the same body and soul combination. Death would
come sooner or later but the soul would never die and get a different form of
body after this body leaves.
I stood up because it all made sense to me. I again looked
up to the other side and saw the same relatives and my brothers in joy. But
this time I saw that the joy they were having was the evil joy and I saw their
happy soul trapped in the evil body of theirs. I wanted to get their soul a
better home to stay, a better body. Their soul were begging me for freedom. I
grabbed by bow and arrow, stood up and commanded Krishna to move forward in the
battle field.
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| Arjuna and Krishna Source: Link |
Author’s Note:
For this week I am using the storytelling style: Character’s
Grown Old. I think this would be a good story to retell form the grown up
Arjuna’s side. I also think that this can be a perfect bedtime story for kids.
The story reference comes from the chapter Bhagavad-Gita of the PDE Ramayana.
On the midst of the battle field with all the armies lined up in two sides for
Pandava and Kaurava. Arjuna looks into the enemy side of the battle field and
gets in a big dilemma and sadness. His own family member is against him. He can
win the battle, but his would be with cost of losing his family members. He
would win but he would still lose the battle in life. So, Arjuna doesn’t want
to battle. So Krishna persuades him to battle.
Bibliography:
Story title: Bhagavad Gita
Book title: PDE Mahabharata
Author: Donald A. Mackenzie
Year of publication: 1913
Shristi, this was a really well written story and I enjoyed reading it. I definitely saw the parallels between your story and the chapter Bhagavad-Gita of the PDE Ramayana. I would've known what you were referencing even if you wouldn't have spelled it out in your author's note. Thanks again for sharing and I look forward to reading more of your posts.
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Shristi, you did such a wonderful job of explaining and expressing emotions. I could not imagine having to fight against your own family members and the people you love the most. You did a great job of going step by step process of emotion explaining all the things he was feeling. Thank you for sharing your story! It was so good!
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