SHARING - GLIMPSE FROM MAHABHARATA

.....IN ORDER TO HIDE FROM KAURVAS TO FULFILL THEIR TENURE IN AGYAATWAAS ( HIDING ),   PANDAVAS ALONG WITH THEIR MOTHER KUNTI ,  DISGUISED  AS  BRAHMINS  WERE LIVING IN  A SMALL HUT IN A REMOTE COUNTRYSIDE, 

WALKING AROUND THE VILLAGES AND COLLECTING ALMS , WHICH EVERYDAY ON THEIR RETURN BACK, THEY GAVE TO THEIR MOTHER,  WHO IN TURN DISTRIBUTED IT AMONG THE BROTHERS.

PAINTING  BY  GIAMPAOLO TOMASSETTI

DURING THAT TIME  KING DRUPAD  ANNOUNCED  SWAYMVAR FOR HIS DAUGHTER DRAUPADI, ROYALS AND NOBLES, FROM FAR & WIDE, CAME TO PARTICIPATE IN SWAYMVAR , THE PADAVAS ALSO ATTENDED THE OCCASION. KING  KRISHNA WAS ALSO PRESENT THERE.

WHEN ALL ROYALS AND KINGS FAILED TO LIFT  THE BOW OR  MISSED TARGET, ARJUN DISGUISED AS BRAHMIN ATTEMPTED THE TASK AND SUCCESSFULLY PIERCED THE TARGET, THUS WINNING PRINCESS DRAUPADI AS A REWARD  OF  SWAYMVAR  TRIUMPH.

AS USUAL THE BROTHERS RETURNED BACK  TO HUT.  SPECIALLY ARJUNA VERY EAGER TO GIVE  GOOD NEWS OF WINNING A PRINCESS WIFE IN THE SWAYMVAR ,  ARJUNA STARTED CALLING OUT FOR MOTHER IN EXCITEMENT , 

THAT HOUR THEIR MOTHER WAS TAKING BATH , RESPONDED BACK TO ARJUNA SAYING “SHARE AMONG YOURSELF”, THINKING THAT THE BROTHERS HAVE RETURNED WITH THEIR ALMS COLLECTION..

WHEN KUNTI WAS DONE WITH BATHING CORE, SAW BROTHERS STANDING WITH DRAUPADI, DID SHE REALISE  WHAT A  GRAVE MISTAKE SHE HAS DONE  BY  INSTRUCTING  TO SHARE AMONG YOURSELF.

NOW THE SITUATION OF  7 PERSONS  AFTER  KUNTI  INSTRUCTIONS  IS A BIG DILEMMA  FOR ALL

5 PANDAVAS

1 DRAUPADI

1 KUNTI

SONS HAS TO FOLLOW MOTHER INSTRUCTIONS !

MOTHER CAN NOT REVERSE HER INSTRUCTIONS  !!

DAUGHTER IN LAW HAS TO ABIDE BY WHAT HER MOTHER IN LAW INSTRUCTS.!!!

ALL  ARE  BOUND  BY  DHARMA, 
BUT THE SITUATION IS VERY AWKWARD AND DIFFICULT.  INSTRUCTIONS IF FOLLOWED MEANT THAT DRAUPADI NEED TO BE SHARED AMONG  FIVE  BROTHERS !!!

PSYCHOLOGICAL SITUATION OF ARJUNA MUST HAVE BEEN WORST, ALONG WITH YUDHISTIRA THE ELDER BROTHER,  MOTHER AS WELL AS OTHER THREE  BROTHERS - BHEEM,  NAKUL  &  SAHDEV...  
MUST  BE  SORT OF  SPEECHLESS AND COULD   BE  IN  BLANK  MIND SITUATION ,

………….  BUT THE SOLUTION WAS DERIVED, 
STATE OF CONFUSION SEEMS RESOLVED.....

DRAUPADI BENT OVER  TO TOUCH THE FEET OF MOTHER IN LAW  FOR  SEEKING  HER  BLESSING,  FOR SHE KNEW SHE IS  ONE, ..  AND  SHE HAS  TO  FOLLOW  WHAT  IS  BEING  DECIDED….   

DRAUPADI CAME OUT OF CONFUSION FOR HERSELF.

YUDHISTIRA , WHO  ALWAYS REMAINED ON THE SIDE OF DHARMA, THEN LOOKED AT HIS BROTHERS AND SAID.....  

PROBABLY !! IT IS DUE TO SOME  DIVINE INTERVENTION, SUCH ARRANGEMENT IS BEING MADE, ... 
DRAUPADI WILL BE WIFE OF ALL THE BROTHERS…

THUS RESOLVING THE SITUATION

KUNTI  BLESSED  HER  DAUGHTER  IN  LAW ........