Mythology And Myths

Holding the fiction 'Yanjaseni' in my hand I was thinking why do we crib when the west points a finger towards us accusing us of hypocrisy.Aren't we all hypocrates.Even our mythology which we are so proud of also points blatantly to the only fact that, we don't do what we preach.

The book is a best seller in it's original language(Oriya) & the English translation was recommended by my friend.Since I was brought up with all those English fiction stuffs, didn't have an idea how mgically can a vernacular author spawn a story & bind you with it's magical spell till you finish the last page.Spellbinding I would rather say.

The writing though a fictional creation tries to address the trauma & dilemma that the character Draupadi had to undergo in her life in the great epic of Mahabharat,the name that has come to be ridiculed and has got associated with all vulgarity in today's society.The author tries to critically analyse the standing of the character vis-a-vis the incidents those have happened in the great epic of Mahabharat,which we all respect for it's portrayal of all human emotions & sentiments & for the creation of Geeta from the battlefield of Kurukhetra.

It was absolutely a page turner.While going through the book I saw the various shades of the Pandavas,their behaviour vis-a-vis Draupadi who by tragic or whatever you want to say became the wife of the five brothers who are known as Panadava.The story revolves round Draupadi starting from her birth till she takes her last breath while going on pilgriamge in Himalayas.Though the book comes under the ctaegory of Fiction,it has raised some valid question regarding the behavoiur of men towards women.Don't know if it was the thought of the author who is a woman herself. But the fact remains that the character which has been most humiliated & had been deprived of her due respect is, Draupadi of the Mahabharata.If the story is true & if any woman has to bear this kind of sacrifices for the betterment of the world & prevalance of Dharama then let no woman be subjected to this kind of sufferings.

Starting from her birth which was for the sole purpose of keeping Dharma & let the adharmas die,the character comes out magnificently victorious in in every type of trial & tribulations, whether it is in the married life with 5 men, or when she has been dragged to the the king's court by Dushasan for the most harried part of the epic which is so shameful that it gives me goosebumps when I think of describing that episode.Can men be like this???That question always crops up.Is it the way we have been brought up where male chauvinisism prevails, where no woman has a say even if the deciosion relates to her????

Why did the society allow kings to have more than one wife ??? Why can't a queen have more than one king????Why is it that everytime some sacrifices needs to be done it has to be done by the ladies of houses????Is it the way our society have been brought up which the author of Mahabahrat tried to paint which is nothing but a story that have been fabricated out of the way society was functioning during that period or it is only a fictional account????

If the way Krishna behaved whom we consider the lord of all the lords,then why do we call him god????I don't have any feeling towards him if he lets someone suffer so that he or she can be closer to him.......Don't we think he is fit to be a saddist who only enjoys giving pain to someone who loves him.In none of the religion on this world you will find the god giving pain to the devotee for the sole purpose of keeping him or her attached to the lord himself.Why is it that Draupadi had to undergo so much trauma only because she was a woman????Is it that a woman is considered to be the privileged one to have such a vast heart who is capable of undergoing all these hard things in life????

My mind was spinning around.Tried to think a little deeeper & voila another thought came to my mind.Why we have only five brothers called Pandavas,they could have been six or seven or say they could be ten also.Doesn't it say something abt ourselves. How many senses we have???
Five ..... Right???? & who is Draupadi??? Isn't she everyone of us???? Surrender to five senses. You will have all the troubles in the life.But surrender yourself to god,you will find peace & tranquility in life.You will find the real meaning of life.

Is it the later message that Mahabharat gives us??? or is it the former???

Still I am searching for the answer.If you have any answer you can always put them.