Why Krishna Didn’t Fight Himself? || Acharya Prashant (2024)

Acharya Prashant

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00:00So my question is on the setting of the Bhagavad Gita in general.

00:06So in the Mahabharata and in the whole of Aryavarta, Krishna was the most capable ruler

00:13and in the best position to fight the Kauravas.

00:16So why did he choose to go through the Pandavas?

00:19Why did he not take up the reins himself?

00:22History does not bear that out.

00:26Sri Krishna himself had to go towards the southwest because he didn't want to be in

00:39a hostile environment.

00:42So it might not really be factually true that Krishna himself was best placed to fight the

00:50war or something.

00:53Had that been the case, had that been practically feasible, probably he would have taken that

01:00route.

01:07Think of where Dwarka is and in those times, it wasn't a very pretty

01:19proposition to go that far down south, southwest.

01:32This was the central kingdom, Hastinapur.

01:39The largest army and the resources and everything.

01:43The Mahabharata tells us of various instances when rulers of Hastinapur actually went about

01:54conquering all the neighboring kingdoms, Ashwamedha and all.

02:03So there is a reason to believe that Hastinapur itself was the central power.

02:17See there is nothing else that guides the actions of a wise learned, I'm not saying

02:30enlightened or illuminated.

02:33Simply let's just keep it earthly and say a learned, compassionate being.

02:43General good, the welfare of the masses.

02:51That is the last objective.

02:55If you have nothing left to do for yourself, what else would you do?

03:02You are still not dead.

03:05The body is still capable and moving around.

03:11You have a few years, let's say a few decades to live.

03:15You spend it in relieving others of the misery that you had once experienced for yourself.

03:28So Krishna does not want the population of Hastinapur to suffer and he will take the

03:37most appropriate route possible.

03:40That's what he has taken.

03:56In fact, as you know, after the war of Mahabharata, even Dwaraka did not last long.

04:03If we are to believe the legend, so note that Shri Krishna was some miraculously omnipotent

04:15divine figure.

04:22In the field of Prakriti, nobody is omnipotent.

04:26Only Prakriti is.

04:33Human beings take birth in the common sense of the word, live then die.

04:43That's all.

04:45There is no omnipotence there.

04:49There is no eternity there.

04:55There is a thing called a supernatural being.

04:57All beings are natural, Prakritic.

05:03So is Shri Krishna as a human being.

05:11And he is doing the maximum that he can do as a human being.

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