Wednesday, 13 June 2018


Mahabharata – 80
by 
Sankar Mukherjee
&
Dr Ramesh Chandra Mukhopadhyaya
                                            Aadivamsavatarana Parva
Vedavayasa the great scholar & sage taught Sumanta,Jaimini,Paila,& his son Sukdev the four Vedas  as well as the Mahabharata.The Mahabharata is deemed to be the fifth Veda. Thus the Mahabharata dwells on how it was first published. We have told how Vedavyasa was born & how the Mahabharata was published.
 The great & famous Bhisma was born as a son of king Santanu. Earlier he was a god & one of the Astavasus who live in heaven.
Now we must remember the great saint Animandavya. He was accused of theft though he was innocent. Consequently he was wounded by a lance. The sage Animandavya recalled how once in his childhood he had injured a fly. There after Animandavya spent the spent his life in penance. Despite that his sin that he had committed in childhood was not outdone by penance. So he cursed Dharmaraja or the god who catered justice namely Yama. Because of his curse the god of justice Yama would be born in a womb of a sudra woman. Consequently the god of justice & virtue reincarnated as Vidura who was wise & virtuous, born of a sudra woman.
Thus the Mahabharata now dwells on the background of the birth of the major dramatis personae of the main action of the Mahabharata.
Karna of great might was born of the Sun god & daughter of Kuntibhoja.He was born with natural armour & ear – rings. His was a charmed body.
Narayana is the god of gods. The three worlds worship him. He incarnated as the son of Vasudeva & Devaki.
Narayana has neither birth nor death. To be born in human shape was a sport with him. He is the all in all & the controller of the existence. He is subtle. He does not act. He is large than even the largest thing in the existence. He is the essence of the three gunas & Prakriti.There by he is the constituent of the existence itself.
            The great sages call him by the name Jeevatma.He is deathless.He is changeless. He is the cause of everything whatever. His impact is everywhere. He is the Purusa that fills up everything. He is the detached witness of every action. He is the only protagonist. He is the point where the discrete vital forces commingle with the all-pervasive life. He is the primordial sound or Pranava.He is boundless.He is the god of gods or the brightest in the existence. He is self & non self in one or the duck. He takes shelter in the water & hence he is Narayana. He holds the world. He is the finest of everything whatever. He is always free. His qualities are infinite & he has no quality. He pervades everything. He has no creator. He is omnipotent. He is the father of fathers of all living beings. And  he  was born in the race of Vrisni  to rescue  virtue in a decadent world.
The mighty Satyaki & Kritavarma who were skilled in the use of weapons were born of Satyaka & Hridik.They were devoted followers of Shree Krishna or Narayana in human shape.

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