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Interesting Mahabharata Video Topics from Srimad Bhagavatam:




The whole of Mahabharata narrated by Srila Vyasdeva to Lord Ganesha was again narrated by Vyasdev in a written form in Srimad Bhagavatam by Srila Vyasdeva. SrimadB Srimad Bhagavatam is mentioned as the Ripen fruit of Sastras as it has most matured contents of all scriptures.
Srila Vyasdeva even after writing Vedas,Upanishads, Puranas,Itihas was not content and feeling emptiness when Srila Narada Muni ,his spiritual master came forward and advised him to describe about Lord Sri Krishna directly. That is when he wrote Srimad Bhagavatam ,which is a Purana.


In continuation to our series of Lesser Known Stories of Mahabharata we are picking up a few topics from Mahabharat and seeing them through Lense of Srimad Bhagavatam

Please note the topics below and kindly check out our youtube channel.




1. Why Did Krishna Allow the Pandavas to Suffer?
Explore why pure devotees like the Pandavas underwent immense suffering despite Krishna’s protection. Includes Kunti’s famous prayers from Bhagavatam.


2. The Untold Spiritual Greatness of Bhishma
Bhishma’s final meditation on Krishna from the bed of arrows and why Krishna broke His own vow for him.


3. Why Did Duryodhana Reach Heaven First?
A shocking spiritual analysis of karma, kshatriya duty, and temporary heavenly rewards.


4. The Hidden Reason Krishna Chose Arjuna
Why Krishna revealed the Bhagavad Gita to Arjuna and not to other powerful warriors.


5. Draupadi’s Final Cry and Krishna’s Protection
The spiritual meaning of complete surrender and why Krishna intervened only at the final moment.


6. Why Krishna Destroyed His Own Dynasty
Bhagavatam’s narration of the destruction of the Yadu dynasty and its spiritual significance.


7. Ashwatthama — The Darkest Character After the War
The Brahmastra episode, killing of sleeping children, and Krishna’s eternal curse.


8. Why Karna Lost Everything
The tragedy of Karna through the lens of association, ego, and dharma.


9. Vidura — The Wisest Forgotten Hero
Vidura’s deep spiritual wisdom and why Krishna loved him dearly.


10. Gandhari’s Curse on Krishna
Did Gandhari’s curse really affect Krishna? Understanding divine will and destiny.


11. Why Krishna Smiled During the War
The spiritual perspective of life, death, and divine consciousness.



12. Why Draupadi Fell First on the Final Journey
The symbolism behind each Pandava’s fall during their final ascent.


13. Barbarika — The Warrior Krishna Stopped
The mysterious story of the warrior powerful enough to change the war entirely.


14. Why Yudhishthira Regretted Victory
The psychological collapse of Yudhishthira after winning the Mahabharata war.


15. Mahabharata Lessons for Kali Yuga
How the Mahabharata reflects modern-day decline in morality and spirituality.


16. Why Queen Kunti Welcomed Suffering
The profound bhakti philosophy behind Kunti’s prayers in Srimad Bhagavatam.


17. Uttara’s Prayer to Krishna
The emotional moment when Krishna protected the unborn Parikshit Maharaj.


18. Why Krishna Became a Messenger
Understanding divine humility and servant leadership.


19. The Real Hero of Mahabharata
Why Krishna Himself is the hidden protagonist of the epic.


20. The Most Dangerous Weapon in Mahabharata
Not the Brahmastra—but anger, envy, pride, and uncontrolled speech.

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Misplaced Identity is devaluating Human Species Time to Wake up

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Care to ask who you are? the obvious answer will be I am Suman Basu/I am John /I am Abdul etc.. /I am Indian/I am US citizen, I am Hindu,Christian ,I am a software engineer ,Project Manager and numerous such. Have you ever thought which of these identities are permanent and eternal in nature. All these identities are possible to be changed. A Hindu can be a Muslim and Vice Versa ,an Indian can be US citizen or otherwise and so on and so forth. What may be the reason that we are running behind many causes which apparently are not ripe enough to care for. The single answer to all these questions are that we have forgot, who we are . We are identifying ourselves with the body we are living in.









As per Bhagavad Gita Chapter 2 we are all blissful souls and our only true Dharma is to Love and Serve Lord Krishna. But today since we are recognising us as our bodies, which is nothing but the dress of the soul, we are caring for causes which are suitable for our bodies. Imagine there is a cricket match between India and Pakistan. Both Indian and Pakistani are equally tensed but an American present in same room has got nothing to do with it. Imagine the Indian person starts believing that he is not the body and therefore not Indian rather in this life, with the body of Indian ,is playing this particular role will he or she be even feel that much tension in the cricket match?



Billions of USD are being spent on Beauty industry which through Ad campaign trying to propagate that the body is most important and we need to pamper the same. What will happen to this Industry if this new conception sinks in. While I am not saying caring for Body is bad .. by all means it is noble cause. Krishna has provided us this body to perform Devotional Service and without this we can not do that, but while we must take care of this body we should also take care of our soul.. who is made of Sat Chit and Ananda and when He leaves this body, in one moment the body become meaningless. It is good to take care of the Car we drive but more important to take care of the Driver who is driving the car.



Krishna Consciousness movement is working on preaching this idea world wide and convince each one of us that , this Absolute Truth and has potential to bring eternal harmony among different sects/religions/nations and can make this earth more beautiful and peaceful place to Live in. In 15th Chapter of Bhagavad Gita Lord again says that He who can find every living and non living entities as manifestation of Supreme God Head will make no discrimination between a tree ,an executioner, a Brahman or Scholar and will be equipoised at all situations.

How wonderful that world will be when as a Human Species we shall love every one and will work in collaboration for improvement of every one. How beautiful that world will be when, even if, some one does harm to us , we can still love them imagining that this part of act is just as temporary as our life and eventually an act on our material body only.Imagine an organisation where every one equates himself or herself as servant of Supreme God Head and do not hanker for any credit to the work done rather dedicate the fruit of the work done entirely to Krishna's lotus feet..how much progress that organisation will do when each of us will do our best for happiness of Lord only and will work only for spiritual progress and not for our own material progress .. this conception can stop War among neighbouring countries, unnecessary killing of animals and many other things. When we shall care for only our need our exploitation to Earth also will reduce and will make World a better habitable place.

Thus time has come for all of us to learn and spread the Happiness,Peace,Tranquility among every one of us by correcting our understanding of our identity and thereby stopping unnecessary war/competition/envy/jealousy and hatred. Our true Identity is we are eternal servant of Lord and that will remain same birth after birth in every life. " Jiber Swarup Hoy Krishner Nitya Das"..



Only Spirituality can provide ever lasting solution



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Hare Krishna!

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Who am I? Why am I here? What is the real purpose of life?

 
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Understanding Our True Identity

 

The Bhagavad Gita (2.13) explains that we are not merely the temporary body but the eternal soul:

 

“As the embodied soul continually passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, similarly the soul passes into another body at death. The wise are not bewildered by this change.”

 

This knowledge helps us understand that our real identity is spiritual. When we reconnect with this truth, many anxieties and confusions of life begin to dissolve.

 

The Purpose of Human Life

 

The Srimad Bhagavatam (1.2.10) reminds us that human life is meant for a higher purpose:

 

“Life’s desires should never be directed toward sense gratification. One should desire only a healthy life for the purpose of spiritual inquiry.”

 

Human life is a rare opportunity to inquire about the absolute truth and rediscover our eternal relationship with the Supreme.

 

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Hare Krishna ! In. the series of lesser known stories of Mahabharat we are now talking of Chandra Vanshis. In Episode 17 we have spoken of Descendants of Puru Maharaj.. In that dynasty in future videos we shall speak of Shantanu, Devabrata,Vichitravirya etc N ow in current video of Episode 18 we have started glorifying Yadu and his dynasty As in Yadu Dynasty the Supreme Personality of Godhead Lord Krishna took avatar we shall deal with their stories. Also in Episode 19 we shall discuss why Kamsa was so cruel inspite of being a Yadu vamshi

Please see the videos
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Hare Krishna in the series of Lesser Known stories of Mahabharata we are now describing the origin of all important characters of Pandava ,Kauravas and others. All Characters in Mahabharat are reincarnation of the demiGods ,Daityas and also associates of Lord Krishna. They all appeared as during this period of Dwapara Yuga supreme personality of Godhead Lord Krishna appeared in His own form to play the pastimes. So these elevated soul want to assist him in that

We all know Astabasu were eight brothers of Basu family and son of Prajapati who in tur was son of Brahma’s son Manu. Eighth one under curse from Vashistha rishi in the crime of stealing Kamdhenu the desire cow from his hermitage came as son of Ganga and played his part as Bhishma.


Among others Danav king Viprachitti came as powerful king of Magahd and was named as Jarasandha.
Hiranyakshipu the most powerful Daitya King reincarnated as Shishupal
Sanhlad a powerful Gandharva king came as Shalya.
Anuhlad another powerful Gandharva took birth as Dhritaketu
Vaskal a king came as Bhagadatta
Kalnemi ,Ravan’s maternal uncle who was killed by Hanuman ji took birth as Kansa in Mathura
Daitya Sharav took birth a s Ugrasen and his family Kansa took birth
Maniman took birth as Vritrasur
A powerful Yaksha called Kalketu came as Rukmi and he was elder brother of Rukmini Devi ,first wife of Lord Krishna and Rukmi’s father was Bhishmak

...there are many such examples which I have described in the upcoming videoEpisode 10A.
Please see the video and let me know your opinion on the comment section

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Hare Krishna/ After completing the birth story of Daityas in last episode,now in next episode of Lesser Kn own storoes of Mahabharat we shall take up a over all view of different dynasties. In reality in time like Mahabharat as we see most of the living beings came from spitritual world to take part with the pastimes of Sri Krishna who appears once in one day of Brahma. And then these personalities again return to Spiritual world. Like we see when Lord Ram disappeared He took the entire Ayodhya Dham Basis to His Saket Dham,similarly when Krishna completed His pastimes He took all YaduVanshis back by orchestarating the Mushal Parva

We shall also see in the next epsiode the origin of different dyansties. For instance we shall see the Duryodhan of Mahabhadrat was first incarnation of Kaly Yuga..So please visit the episode when it is released and do let me know your comments

As of now I am sharing the l;ast episode of Daitya Dynastry

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Appearance of Sura( Devata) and Asuras ( Daitya,Dano,Rakshas) in material world


Hare Krishna !
In the 8th chapter of Lesser Known Stories of Mahabharata our You Tube Video Series we shall discuss on the appearance of Demons and Demigods. Our discussion is with reference to Mahabharat, ,Shrimad Bhagavatam and Bhagavad Gita

Before going in details of the history we shall refer a few verses from Bhagavad Gita Chapter 16 – Verse 1-4

In 1-3 Lord Krishna has described the Daivi Gunas or divine qualities. They are mostly
Fearlessness, purification of one's existence, cultivation of spiritual knowledge, charity, self-control, performance of sacrifice, study of the Vedas, austerity and simplicity; nonviolence, truthfulness, freedom from anger; renunciation, tranquility, aversion to faultfinding, compassion and freedom from covetousness; gentleness, modesty and steady determination; vigor, forgiveness, fortitude, cleanliness, freedom from envy and the passion for honor-these transcendental qualities
In 1-4 Lord Krishna Described the Demoniac nature as Arrogance, pride, anger, conceit, harshness and ignorance-these qualities belong to those of demonic nature

In chapter 13,6,2 Lord stated further that the Living Beings with Divine quality takes shelter of lord and hails him for all good thing happen to them and accept the bad things as his own Karma and thanks Lord for giving him chance to purify .But the demoniac people will think “So much wealth do I have today, and I will gain more according to my schemes. So much is mine now, and it will increase in the future, more and more.


While in Satya,Treta,and to some extent Dwapar Yug we could identify the Demons and Demigods clearly different and unique in Kali Yug ( age of Quarrel) it is not possible. We all living beings have both the type of qualities inside us and it is important for us which qualities we pamper and the same will exhibit more.

In todays episode we shall discuss how it all started and why ? Let us begin

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Hare Krishna ! In the series of Lesser Known Stories of Mahabharat we are now describing the story of two most powerful members of Sanke Dynasty: Seshnag and Nagraj Vasuki. Both of them special benediction from Lord Vishnu and Lord Shiva and were aligned to the root cause of creation. This is very fascinating story please check the video YAS

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Hare Krishna. I am thankful to many of you who are following the series of Lessr Known Stories of Mahabharat, It is heartening when I get quesries on my email or WA.

For others I request you to follow this series as you will know many stories which are generally not disturbed
In episode 4 we dealt with the dynasty of snakes and stories of two sisters Kadru and Vinata who were both wives of Kashyap Muni. Kadru gave birth to 1000 snakes and Vinata gave birth to two powerful living entities Arun ,who later became charioteer of Sungod and Garuda who became carrier of Vishnu

In Adiparva there is a detailed vivid discussion of "Churning of Milk Ocean" " Samudramanthan" and Mohini avatar of Lordn Vishnu but I have skipped the episode as the same has been described even in TV serial also

Rather in Episode 5 I have explained how Arun and Gaduda did the austerity and they succeeded in lifves

Also in this episode I have spoken about Gaja Kachhap... and the lesson we can learn

The Video clip is given below:

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Intrigued with these questions. Join us the session on Discover Yourself organised by #iskconbcec

send me query I will send details

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