š²Wealth & Fall⏬
DhritrÄshtra knowing his sons were becoming mischievous, appointed KrpÄcharya as guru & sent them for training. Both KrpÄ & Krpi were born from SaradvÄn, son of Gautam Rsi, who while performing austerities to obtain celestial weapons was distracted by a celestial Apsara Janapadi & lost his control of senses. KrpÄ was taught art of employing weapons by his father & at a young age became highly proficient in military science
There was another great sage named BhÄradvÄja who did austerities at the source of GangÄ. One day while bathing he happened to see beautiful celestial maiden Ghritaci & was enchanted. At turn of events, a son was born in a earthen jar & hence was called Drona
King Prsata & sage BhÄradvÄja were great friends & every day the king would visit sage in his hermitage. King’s son Drupada would accompany him & play with sage’s son Drona. Later, when king died, Drupada became king of PÄncalas. Soon thereafter BhÄradvÄja too died. Drona then married Krpi & in due course a son was born named AsvattÄma (the horse-voiced one), as he neighed just like celestial steed UccaihsrÄva
Drona came to hear that Lord ParasurÄma had renounced fighting & desired to give way his accumulated wealth to BrahmanÄs. He went to mount Mahendra to meet him. After Drona paid obeisance, the Lord asked the purpose of his coming & Drona said he came seeking wealth. Lord replied that he already has given away all wealth to BrahmanÄs & only has his invaluable weapons
Drona requested Lord to give him his weapons along with knowledge of their use. He thus acquired complete science of weapons including use of BrahmÄstra. Drona then departed & went to the Kingdom of Drupada. It had been many years since Drona had seen his friend & introduced himself as his childhood mate. However, Drupada had become intoxicated with pride due to his opulence & felt insulted by Drona’s presumption
Drupada said-It may be true that we were childhood friends but I cannot consider you as such, for friendship can exist only between equals & not between one who is very rich & the other who is poor
Drona felt insulted & enraged & this started great enmity between him & Drupada. A destiny changing event
Today wealth is considered a prime criterion for determining a person’s social status. Even a man who is highly educated & has good character, if he is poor, he’s considered a failure. Possession of wealth is intoxicating. If a person remains humble despite his wealth, it represents that he is an advanced soul & knows the purpose of wealth he has
Anyone having wealth has responsibility to use it for higher purpose & not for his sense gratification (a criminal waste), else the same wealth is taken away & leads to his fall. Wealth shouldn't cloud our good intelligence, build false pride, leading to commit offences against others
idam adya mayÄ labdham imaį¹ prÄpsye manoratham
idam astīdam api me bhaviṣyati punar dhanam
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