According to the Dharmik tradition, blessings ward
off inauspiciousness. Therefore, even the
adharmik people of the times of the Mahabharata war had great faith in the
power of heartfelt blessings.
Jarasandha, who was ambitious to be the king of the world,
would everyday invite hundreds of Brahamans to bless him to remove the hurdles
in the accomplishment of his ambition of emperorship. Blessings were
there, but before they could fructify Jarasandha lost his life, when he was
punished by the mighty Bhima who had received the blessings of his Lord
Krishna.
Duryodhana went seeking blessings from his mother before
the battle. Gandhari so wished he would win, but she just could not bless him
with victory.
‘Blessings’ are reduced to simply ‘Wishing’ when the
person who is blessed is undeserving, or the person who blesses is unqualified
to bless or he is attached to adharmik people, like Dhritharasthra was towards
Duryodhana.
Also, simply ‘Wishing’ gets transformed into a ‘Blessing’
when the person who is at the receiving end deserves the same. When
Bhisma, Dronacharya, and Krpacharya blessed Yudhisthira before the beginning of
the battle, they helplessly did so, because Yudhisthira greatly deserved. They had
no choice but to bless him.
Therefore, Mahabharata was the war between the wishing
people and the blessed people. The undeserving and the deserving. The
cursed and the heartfelt blessed.
The Vedic wisdom therefore says: if someone abuses
the less privileged, the helpless, the downtrodden, then the abusive
people, however strong they may be, will drown in the very tears of the abused
people. In the Ramayana therefore, Mandodari, while crying in front of the dead
body of her husband Ravana, said, “You haven’t been killed by the arrows of Rama,
but you have been drowned by the tears of Mother Sita.”
So let’s not wish but bless, because wishing is a dream
state which might turn into a nightmare but blessing is a vision which
transforms into substantial reality.
What do we want? Blessings? Or only wishes?According to the Dharmik tradition, blessings ward
off inauspiciousness. Therefore, even the
adharmik people of the times of the Mahabharata war had great faith in the
power of heartfelt blessings.
Jarasandha, who was ambitious to be the king of the world,
would everyday invite hundreds of Brahamans to bless him to remove the hurdles
in the accomplishment of his ambition of emperorship. Blessings were
there, but before they could fructify Jarasandha lost his life, when he was
punished by the mighty Bhima who had received the blessings of his Lord
Krishna.
Duryodhana went seeking blessings from his mother before
the battle. Gandhari so wished he would win, but she just could not bless him
with victory.
‘Blessings’ are reduced to simply ‘Wishing’ when the
person who is blessed is undeserving, or the person who blesses is unqualified
to bless or he is attached to adharmik people, like Dhritharasthra was towards
Duryodhana.
Also, simply ‘Wishing’ gets transformed into a ‘Blessing’
when the person who is at the receiving end deserves the same. When
Bhisma, Dronacharya, and Krpacharya blessed Yudhisthira before the beginning of
the battle, they helplessly did so, because Yudhisthira greatly deserved. They had
no choice but to bless him.
Therefore, Mahabharata was the war between the wishing
people and the blessed people. The undeserving and the deserving. The
cursed and the heartfelt blessed.
The Vedic wisdom therefore says: if someone abuses
the less privileged, the helpless, the downtrodden, then the abusive
people, however strong they may be, will drown in the very tears of the abused
people. In the Ramayana therefore, Mandodari, while crying in front of the dead
body of her husband Ravana, said, “You haven’t been killed by the arrows of Rama,
but you have been drowned by the tears of Mother Sita.”
So let’s not wish but bless, because wishing is a dream
state which might turn into a nightmare but blessing is a vision which
transforms into substantial reality.
What do we want? Blessings? Or only wishes?
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