As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
I was studying one of my favorite sagas in the Indian Mahabharata. It is the simplest of stories that has a reflection of the sons of men in battle with the sons of demons.
There is a great deal Lost 10 in this saga, from the sagas of the Norse to the Biblical. This is the story of the sons of two women, and the sons of a third who is king.
It is a story which makes no sense as the sons of demons, numbering 5, all married to the same woman. The same woman who by mocking the son of the king unleashes a conflict in a war which is destined to destroy all.
Krisha is called a god, but a god which favors the demons. They can cheat. They can ask others who can not be killed to die for them. They can by Krishan even summon the demon son of one of the 5, to die of the great Arjuna of the five, who is not so great, unless his teacher has a superior bows man cut off his thumb or unless he summons the ultimate weapon of death to overcome mortals.
The great era of darkness is where Krisha crosses. The sons of demons are called by Krisha the only light.
The sons of men are the ones which I have feelings for as they are the sympathetic ones. The ones cheated, the ones attacked the ones warred against.
This peaks in Karna. The first born son of the mother of the demon seed. He too is a product of such a union, but is abandoned like Moses in an ark in the river. It is only when defeat is imeninent that his mother pleads for him to come back and join Arjuna. Karna has only been befriended and at his station, due to the princes of the sons of men, giving him honor.
It is Krishna who utters the words which sums up it all in "Dharma sometimes must be forgotten". That is telling, because the translation for dharma is RIGHTEOUSNESS. Yes this god in the friend of demons when almost all is lost in horrific slaughter says that righteousness must be forgotten. The ends justify the means at all costs. The two great warriors of the army of men, Drona and Bhishma both die in loving the demons which kill them. The sons of men do not abandon Righteousness, character, but the demon seed do and those who love them. They all become earth from where they were formed.
It is the woman, the wife of five, who defends the lies and murder. Her own version of what was done to her, when she was the one who began the humiliation of the king's son. It is her who washes her hair in the blood of a man who dragged her by the hair in retribution. Blood shed by one of her husbands who ripped out the heart of this man and drank his blood.
The great Arjuna murders his brother Karna, unarmed, and in violation of all war.
It comes down to the son of the king, against the 5 and Krisha. The five have to cheat to win against one. Krisha lies in stating he is not the author of all of this.
Their victory though is sown with Drona's son who moves into the camp of the 5 and slaughters all their descendants. The kings son dies in being told of this welcome news and goes to a better place for he has lived a Righteous life.
Krisha dies in a curse. The 4 and the wife slip into the abyss as their demon seed leader climbs the mountain to reach paradise. He will not abandon a dog with him when commanded. He attains paradise, but refuses to greet his enemies in the sons of men, and joins the demon seed in the darkness and stench.
They abandoned Righteousness. They cursed Righteousness.
It ends with the affirmation which is troubling and accepted that the Indian is reared from the seed saved by Krisha, the seed of Arjuna's son, the demon seed.
Nuff Said
agtG
