The Real Archery Heroes
General Facts:-
Both Karna & Ekalavya are the symbols of self taught highly skilled person's who were defeated because they lacked the mental prescience to forsee the consequences of their words & their commitment to keep their word even to their detriment.
Karna was thought of to be a charioteers son & Ekalavya was born to a then thought to be a lower caste women .But both were highly self motivated individuals who believed that through planning & sustained hardwork they would be able to achieve the highest distinction in their chosen field .
Coincidentally the chosen field of both of them was archery.We all known that Ekalavya had shot off a string of arrows on the mouth of a barking dog & there by silenced the dog "
Kwithout killing the dog.
Likewise Karna was able to shoot not just one eye of the wooden bird ,but both the eyes with 2 arrows strung in a single bow shot . It was these display of their skills which alarmed the gurus .
The guru were DronaCharya for Ekalavya & Bhagwan Parashurama for Karnan .
Ekalavya had not been taught by DronaCharya yet his discipline & his will to kill.
Will to power was so consuming that he made a statue of DronaCharya & believed in his blessings & learnt the skills of Archery .When Drona meets & asks for the right thumb of Ekalavya, he doesn't think why on the earth would Drona want his right thumb?
In his passion for learning the skill of Archery ,Ekalavya had ignored developing his prescience .There was no balance in his education.His skill was not tempered with the higher knowledge that anyone who asks for your life or your tools of life is your YAMA.
In Karna's Case it was the curse of Parashurama's which did him in.Karna had lied to Parashurama that he was a Brahmin ,Parashurama hated Kshtriyas. & When endurance of Karma ,while offering his lap for a pillow raised Parashurama's doubts regarding Karna's varna ,Karna admitted that he was not a Brahmin & earned the curse per se which did karna in, but his promise to Kunti that would not use the Astra ,second time which which did him in. It is the of prescience again like Ekalavya.
All the talk about Destiny is nothing but a packaged storyline ,post facto the events.But the wise know that destiny is built through prompts efficiency & prescient actions.
From My Pont of Views
The point to be made in this blog is that skill in unsuited hands is quickly deprived by the Acharyas These Acharyas are the final arbiters to decide whose hands are suited and unsuited.
No matter what anyone tells you,there are three things one should never ever forget:-
1.There is a hierarchy everywhere.
2.Everyone is fighting for the resources (capital, land,labour of fellowmen)
3.There is someone watching ,who has plans to fit you suit his interests.
Ekalavya & Karna were victims of lack of advisers . Had Karna gone to Duryodhana & asked him about the promise which Kunti wanted him to make Duryodhana would have advised him to falsely promise Kunti & not to keep it in battlefield when other life issues are at stake .Likewise, if Ekalavya had asked an advisor,he would have englightened Ekalavya to tell Drona,"As Drona was only his mental guru & was not directly involved in mentoring him.Drona could have Ekalavyas right right thumb mentally too"
Contrast this with what Lord Krishna tells Arjuna in the battlefield .Don't fall in your duty.
A statement which is disguised in nobility but the disguised in nobility but the underlying principle is that either you underlying principle is that either you kill or get killed choose life or death.
It is that choice of life over "oaths" & promises & respect for elders which is recommended .Arjuna chooses life as if was merely doing his duty.
But Karna & Ekalavya fall victims of their "WORD"
What the gurus teach the pupils are different thins. A guru knows that a word given is to be honoured ,but not at the cost of one's life.There is a primary "DUTY" one owes to oneself.
But that is a lesson to Kshtriya ,what is taught to Vaishya is that don't have false measures donot make unconscionable profit .What is taught to be a Sudra is :-
Be Obedient ,Respect Elders,Give your life for the duty assigned to you.So one could see that the same guru teaches different things to different classes of people .That is why the Guru's were apprehensive about talking & mentoring pupils outside a particular class Drona did not want the self taught Ekalavya to use even his self taught skills .Parashurama did not want a Kshtriya to have the skills which could be detrimental to his Brahmin class .In effect each Guru has his niche pupils.To overcome the word,prescience is needed .
Among the many factirs which did Ekalavya & Karna in ,it was lack of advisers which I believe
most beware of gurus .Their messages could be confusing if not deterimental .If their message is not addressed to the class which you belong.
Likewise Karna was able to shoot not just one eye of the wooden bird ,but both the eyes with 2 arrows strung in a single bow shot . It was these display of their skills which alarmed the gurus .
The guru were DronaCharya for Ekalavya & Bhagwan Parashurama for Karnan .
Ekalavya had not been taught by DronaCharya yet his discipline & his will to kill.
Will to power was so consuming that he made a statue of DronaCharya & believed in his blessings & learnt the skills of Archery .When Drona meets & asks for the right thumb of Ekalavya, he doesn't think why on the earth would Drona want his right thumb?
In his passion for learning the skill of Archery ,Ekalavya had ignored developing his prescience .There was no balance in his education.His skill was not tempered with the higher knowledge that anyone who asks for your life or your tools of life is your YAMA.
In Karna's Case it was the curse of Parashurama's which did him in.Karna had lied to Parashurama that he was a Brahmin ,Parashurama hated Kshtriyas. & When endurance of Karma ,while offering his lap for a pillow raised Parashurama's doubts regarding Karna's varna ,Karna admitted that he was not a Brahmin & earned the curse per se which did karna in, but his promise to Kunti that would not use the Astra ,second time which which did him in. It is the of prescience again like Ekalavya.
All the talk about Destiny is nothing but a packaged storyline ,post facto the events.But the wise know that destiny is built through prompts efficiency & prescient actions.
From My Pont of Views
The point to be made in this blog is that skill in unsuited hands is quickly deprived by the Acharyas These Acharyas are the final arbiters to decide whose hands are suited and unsuited.
No matter what anyone tells you,there are three things one should never ever forget:-
1.There is a hierarchy everywhere.
2.Everyone is fighting for the resources (capital, land,labour of fellowmen)
3.There is someone watching ,who has plans to fit you suit his interests.
Ekalavya & Karna were victims of lack of advisers . Had Karna gone to Duryodhana & asked him about the promise which Kunti wanted him to make Duryodhana would have advised him to falsely promise Kunti & not to keep it in battlefield when other life issues are at stake .Likewise, if Ekalavya had asked an advisor,he would have englightened Ekalavya to tell Drona,"As Drona was only his mental guru & was not directly involved in mentoring him.Drona could have Ekalavyas right right thumb mentally too"
Contrast this with what Lord Krishna tells Arjuna in the battlefield .Don't fall in your duty.
A statement which is disguised in nobility but the disguised in nobility but the underlying principle is that either you underlying principle is that either you kill or get killed choose life or death.
It is that choice of life over "oaths" & promises & respect for elders which is recommended .Arjuna chooses life as if was merely doing his duty.
But Karna & Ekalavya fall victims of their "WORD"
What the gurus teach the pupils are different thins. A guru knows that a word given is to be honoured ,but not at the cost of one's life.There is a primary "DUTY" one owes to oneself.
But that is a lesson to Kshtriya ,what is taught to Vaishya is that don't have false measures donot make unconscionable profit .What is taught to be a Sudra is :-
Be Obedient ,Respect Elders,Give your life for the duty assigned to you.So one could see that the same guru teaches different things to different classes of people .That is why the Guru's were apprehensive about talking & mentoring pupils outside a particular class Drona did not want the self taught Ekalavya to use even his self taught skills .Parashurama did not want a Kshtriya to have the skills which could be detrimental to his Brahmin class .In effect each Guru has his niche pupils.To overcome the word,prescience is needed .
Among the many factirs which did Ekalavya & Karna in ,it was lack of advisers which I believe
most beware of gurus .Their messages could be confusing if not deterimental .If their message is not addressed to the class which you belong.
©Vishnu J Raju
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