Feel it!!

The past few days have witnessed many friends of mine, entering into the blogosphere. Something, that, I always wanted them to do. In my reckoning, blogging is a radical concept and is immensely powerful. It’s more or less impossible in today’s shady world to get such a leveled field to test your skills.

However, that’s a different story and I’ll love to talk about it sometime later. For now, I have got some new blogs to catch up.

To my astonishment, some of them have already started making waves by instigating some engrossing and grueling debates. One such debate is about the views expressed by Amartya Sen in an interview to Outlook.

He says

How peculiar it is that someone as non-violent as Gandhiji, who was very inspired by the Gita, was on the side of Krishna, who is making Arjuna fight a war and kill people, when Arjuna is saying maybe I shouldn’t kill!

The debate is on at nakul’s blog. But, what dazzles me is the greatness of the epic. In my view it’s too fascinating to be a real story.This epic is either a truly outstanding, flawlessly thought and immaculately inked piece of fiction or it’s arguably the best piece of historical text ever known to humans.An epic authored before Christ, some two thousand years back.

In any of the case it’s highly improbable that the Mahabharata we read today is the original version of the Mahabharata written or conceived two thousand years back (Two thousand years are sufficient to alter any text.).

Even if it is, then also, there is a fair amount of possibility that it’s suffering from some kind of narrative error or at some hapless point the author could have failed to unerringly ink, what he conceived.

The point that I want to make is, while reading such revolutionary and enormously impactful but primeval epics one must not go fact by fact, rather, one should try to comprehend the soul of the text. His endeavor must be to read between the lines.

This text is like a profoundly researched case study on life.There is no doubt about the fact that the text aimed to teach humanity, benevolence and compassion in large and the impact of this text has been felt everywhere across the globe.

Perhaps human history has never ever witnessed a literary piece that has affected so many lives and I am certain that in all probability it will shape many more lives in the years to come.

It’s an incredibly astonishing story which has taught the human kind the most fundamental lessons of humanity in the most enthralling fashion. Even after this mammoth time since it’s creation, it has not lost its old charm and continues to beckon, regale and educate one and all about the most seminal issues of integrity and righteousness.We owe a lot to this remarkable epic.

P.S. :- Here is how Gurcharan Das unravels some modern-day mysteries through Mahabharata.

Goofy (N.R.E.)