Mahabharata

Are the Mahabharata real or stories?

How Balarama reveals Krishna’s heart in Vrindavana Mathura and Dwarka ? – Balarama appearance day

Why was Balarama kind to Duryodhana and harsh to Romharshana? – Balarama appearance day reflection

​How could Yudhishthira stake his own wife in gambling?

When Arjuna vowed to kill Jayadratha out of anger and vengeance, was he violating Krishna’s Gita instructions?

Karna: Wronged hero or wrong hero: Chaitanya Charan on Kishori Jani M’s podcast

Wouldn’t killing Ashwatthama have been just punishment & prevented his future attack with Brahmastra?

Isnt the Pandavas’ killing their own relatives over a property dispute immoral?

Was Parashurama’s violence against the kshatriyas disproportionate?

Was Yudhishthira wrong to gamble and cowardly to not protect Draupadi while she was dishonored?

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Those eighteen days – Day 2

Those eighteen days – Day 1

Bhishma And Gopis – Striking Similarities – Bhishma Panchaka Special 1

Mahabharata life lessons – Why Draupadi laughed when Duryodhana fell?

Mahabharata Life Lessons – Did the Pandavas fight to take revenge?

Mahabharata Life Lessons – How could Jarasandha do human sacrifices?

Why did Draupadi laugh at Duryodhana? – Hindi

Was Duryodhana cruel to the citizens or just to the Pandavas?

How would the Kauravas being neutralized by the Pandavas further their spiritual evolution?

Were the Kauravas harassing their citizens – were they tyrants who needed to be removed by force?

Why did Arjuna want to be the greatest archer?

Why did Bhishma and other elders stay silent when Draupadi was being disrobed?

Comparing Ramayana and Mahabharata 1 – What caused the exiles

Did Krishna protect Draupadi only after she stopped trying to protect herself – does surrender mean we stop trying to do anything?

Mahabharata controversies – how life was unfair to both Karna and Arjuna

Do the ends justify the means, as your Mahabharata explanations imply? Won’t that justify terrorism too?

When Duryodhana slipped and fell, why did the Pandavas remain silent?

How Balarama’s causeless mercy on Duryodhana was still less for Duryodhana

Self-acceptance – Comparing Vidura and Dhritarashtra

Can Abhimanyu’s getting trapped in Chakravuha be compared to our getting trapped in samsara-cakra?

Just as Bhishma chose the wrong side, so do we – how can we learn properly from such role models?

Why did Vidura not instruct Dhritrashtra to apologize to the Pandavas and to thereby become offense-free for practicing bhakti?

How to choose wisely – Learning from Karna

Dealing with fear of rejection – Analyzing Karna’s character

If Krishna already knew that Duryodhana wasn’t going to agree to peace, then did Duryodhana have free will to choose?

If Duryodhana was generous enough to give the arrows to Arjuna why was he so hateful?

Why is Kurukshetra known as Dharma-kshetra – why was it chosen as the venue for the Mahabarata war?

Learning from Dhritarashtra – Does destiny make us or do we make it – 2?

Learning from Dhritarashtra – Does destiny make us or do we make it – 1?

Karna character analysis – Are we doomed by destiny or by our own decisions?

Ashwatthama character analysis – Just because we are empowered doesn’t mean that we are right

Duryodhana character analysis 2 – If we don’t want help, even God can’t help

Duryodhana character analysis 1 – Are some people innately evil?

Dhritarashtra character analysis 2 – Do we need to lose everything before we lose our attachments?

Dhritarashtra character analysis 1 – Attachment makes us stone-hearted

Why was Ekalavya treated so unfairly?

Why does Bhishma say that he is bound by the Kauravas wealth?

Are Bhishma’s teachings of pure devotion at the end of his life contradicted by his life of service to the Kauravas?

Why did Bhima abandon Hidimibi – did he marry her simply to gain political power?

Did Krishna use Ghatothkacha as a sacrificial pawn?

Duryodhana felt no moral compunction while persecuting the Pandavas, but Dhirtrashtra did – why the difference?

When Abhimanyu was killed, how was Arjuna overcome by illusion?

Duryodhana character analysis 3 – Envy perpetuates dissatisfaction and invites destruction

Duryodhana character analysis 2 – Ambition distorted by envy becomes cancerous

Duryodhana character analysis 1 – How the entitlement mentality degrades

Shakuni Character Analysis 2 – Evaluate whether our relationships bring out our best or our worst

Why didn’t the Pandavas think that the Kauravas were simply instruments of their own past karma?

Is the Mahabharata that occurred in another age even relevant today?

Is the Mahabharata an excellent drama or is it historically true?

If everything in the Mahabharata is arranged by Krishna’s plan, why do we blame Duryodhana or Karna?

Why is Arjuna considered the greatest archer when all his power came from Krishna?

If Dhritarashtra had stopped Duryodhana from fighting, how would the Gita have been spoken?

When Dhritarashtra was forced by the modes to support Duryodhana, why is he blamed?

Did the celestial voice stopping Duryodhana from committing suicide interfere with his free will?

When Karna abused Draupadi, why didn’t anyone punish him by taking away his position?

Karna wanted revenge and Draupadi wanted revenge – what is the difference?

When Bhishma took shelter of the Kauravas’ wealth, why did Krishna shelter him at death?

QA with children on Ramayana-Mahabharata

When Arjuna was sinless, why did he have to go to hell?

Was the Mahabharata war predestined?

How did Krishna as Shanti-duta use sama, dama, bheda and danda?

The Pandavas could have won a kingdom anywhere by defeating someone else – why did they win it by killing their own relatives?

Why did Dhritarashtra stay silent when Duryodhana insulted Vidura (Hindi)?

If the Gita is a recorded conversation reported by Sanjaya to Dhritarashtra, how does it contain Sanjaya’s speech?

Did Sanjaya report the Kurukshetra war from Kurukshetra or from Hastinapura?

Why did Balarama favor Duryodhana?

​Did Karna choose his fate or was he fated to die?

​Why did Krishna not stop Yudhishthira from gambling?

​Why was Arjuna Krishna’s favorite among the Pandavas?

How did Draupadi have so much devotion for Krishna, more than that of even the Pandavas?

​Did Karna ever feel that he had made a wrong choice by fighting for Duryodhana?

​When did Kunti reveal to Karna that he was her son – why?

Does Krishna ask Karna for his punya when Karna is about to die?

​What can we learn from Yudhishthira’s gambling?