Saga Of Destruction

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My mom always said, “ God helps anyone who seeks it. And God has a very limited vocabulary in which the word ‘no’ is absent. He has only one word and that is ‘yes’.” She illustrated this by narrating this beautiful story from Mahabharata.

It was a war between the Kauravas and the Pandavas. There were allies made and battle lines drawn. The support from the  Yadavas was of great importance to both the teams and the war had become imminent. Lord Narayana's army known as the Narayani sena had four major clans with their chieftians that made up the Yadavas. Duryodhana was very keen on having the Yadavas on his side .He therefore decides to approach Krishna for help but to his dismay Arjuna also comes to Krishna to seek help at the same time with the same intention.

When Duryodhana and Arjuna entered into Krishna’s chamber, they found him sleeping. They both awaited for him to wake up.  When Krishna awoke from sleep it was Arjuna, He saw first because Arjuna was sitting at his feet. He then noticed Duryodhana who was waiting near his headrest. Arjuna, sitting at the feet of Krishna was the sign of humility.

When Krishna got to know the intentions of both, He decided to help both. ‘God always helps who seeks it’

 He said, “I shall offer you a choice. Either pick the famed Narayani army or choose Me. But let Me caution you that I will neither fight nor take up arms in the war.”

The first chance was given to Arjuna for the choice to be made as he was younger of the two and also because it was Arjuna whom Krishna saw first when he woke up. For Arjuna the choice was easy as he unhesitatingly chose Narayan over Narayani Sena. Duryodhana was startled but Arjuna gave Duryodhana the pleasure of having the Narayani Sena. He chose to have Krishna as his Saarthi (charioteer). Both got what they desired and walked away happily.

With Narayani Sena, in numerical terms, Kaurava’s army became equal to Pandava’s army. Furthermore, Narayani Sena was said to be incomparable in terms of strength, skills and valour. It was a basic threat to rival kingdoms.

Narayani Sena formed by Lord Krishna was not a common army, the soldiers recruited in it were Yadavs, who had more than 10 lakh soldiers, who were taught by the war policy Lord Shri Krishna himself.

Ultimately, Arjuna was the winner for choosing God over everything else. The Pandavas were triumphant in the war and even the Yadava support wasn’t enough to save the Kauravas from complete annihilation.

Lord Krishna gave away such a powerful army to the enemy because he wanted to make one thing very clear: it is that the history should remember the Mahabharata war as the victory of Dharma over Adharma, the victory of Good over Evil.

If Narayani Sena would have been with Pandavas, then they would have been a far superior army in the war. Then, all said and done, the Mahabharata war would have simply been the victory of a superior army.

Krishna conveyed that no matter how strong is your army, if you are on the side of Adharma you are destined to lose.

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