గురు బ్రహ్మ గురు ర్విష్ణుః గురు ర్దేవో మహేశ్వరః
గురు స్సాక్షాత్ప రబ్రహ్మ తస్మై శ్రీ గురవే నమః
శుక్లాంబరధరం విష్ణుం శశివర్ణం చతుర్భుజం
ప్రసన్న వదనం ధ్యాయేత్సర్వ విఘ్నోప శాంతయే
శ్రుతిస్మృతి పురాణానాం ఆలయం కరుణాలయం
నమామి భగవత్పాదం శంకరం లోక శంకరం
ఓం నమః శివాయ
After Yudhishtira loses everything in the gambling with Sakuni, Dussasana
drags Draupadi by her hair to the sabha and in front of everyone, he tries to
undress her. The episode of draupadi vastraapaharanam and Krishna ensuring that
Draupadi did not get undressed is a known one. Anyway, Dussaasana gave up after
sometime.
Incident 1:
Seeing this Bhima’s blood boils and he takes an oath in front of everyone
that he will not only kill dussaasana, but will also rip his heart apart and
drink his blood. Every one, including Dharma Raja remains silent.
Karna stoops to a level, where he said that its ok for Draupadi to choose
another husband after having 5 husbands like a vesya (prostitute). Taking this
as a cue, Duryodhana shows his thigh to Draupadi and asks her to come and sit
on it.
Incident 2:
Bhima once again could not tolerate this. He takes another oath that he
will blast the thighs of Duryodhana in the war and will split them open. He
looks at Yudhishtira and then at the arms for his permission. Yudhishtira did
not even bother to look at Bhima. Bheeshma, Drona etc pacify Bhima citing some
great principles. They recovered from their brain dead state, which they
entered into when Duryodhana ordered Dussaasana to bring draupadi into the
court.
After all the damage was done, Dhritaraashtra woke up. He informs
Duryodhana to scrap everything. He requests Yudhistira that he should not take
all these incidents seriously as that’s against the nature of Yudhistira and
his righteousness. He then calls Draupadi and grants her 3 boons.
Draupadi seeks the release of her husbands and herself from the slavery.
Dhrutarashtra promptly grants it.
Then she wanted her husbands to be given the kingdom and Dhrutarashtra
agrees to that and tells her to seek one more boon. She stops there citing that
a kshatriya woman can only seek 2 boons and not more.
Incident 3:
Bhima says that the kingdom acquired through a woman is disgraceful and
rises once again saying that he would fight the kauravas right away and win
everything from them. Dharma raja raises his arm and instructs Bhima to calm
down.
Alright, so when you look at the above 3 incidents, Dharma Raja remained
silent for the first two incidents, but orders Bhima to calm down in the 3rd
incident. Why did he do that? Why did he not bother when the first two
incidents happened and took a decision during the third?
Kavi Saamrat Viswanaadha Satyanarayana has answers for those questions.
During the first two incidents Yudhistira was still a slave of the Kauravas.
So, he is no one to take decisions. He is not the signing authority as a slave
is supposed to act as per the master’s directive. So he did not even bother to
look at Bhima or respond to him. Isn’t it amazing how some one could still
think of Dharma in that state?
So, at the time of 3rd incident, he was not a slave anymore,
then instead of stopping Bhima, why did he not go ahead with Bhima’s idea of
waging a war? Bhima said that the kingdom obtained because of Draupadi is disgraceful.
So, how could Dharma Raja utilize the power obtained because of Draupadi and
issue an order to wage war? Wouldn’t that be disgraceful as well? Hence Dharma
Raja said No. While Bhima could figure out that enjoying the kingdom obtained
through Draupadi is disgraceful, he could not extend it to waging a war using
the freedom obtained by Draupadi. Even that is equally disgraceful.
Dharma is extremely complicated. Knowing it is not easy and importantly
abiding by it, especially when in trouble is not easy at all. You need people
like Kavi Samrat to explain these kinds of inticacies.
సర్వే జనాః సుఖినో భవంతు
PS: There could be
typos and other mistakes in telugu and english, kindly pardon me with big
hearts.
