Wickedness!

After Salya’s death, Maharaj Yudhisthira continued to massacre Kaurava soldiers. Salya’s younger brother then rushed at the Pāndava king hoping for revenge, but his head was cut-off. Entire Kaurava army panicked & retreated from the battlefield, Sakuni took his army & came to fight. Picking his mace Bhima came to crush 21000 Kaurav foot soldiers

 

Salva, the king of mlecchas, rushed at the Pāndava army while riding upon his gigantic elephant & proceeded to afflict Pāndava soldiers so severely that they soon began retreating from the battle. Dhristadyumna rushed to check Salva & by repeatedly piercing his elephant, he forced the mleccha king to turn away

 

Bhima, Satyaki & Shikhandi surrounded Salva’s elephant & pierced it with innumerable arrows. Finally, as the elephant began to weaken, Dhristadyumna quickly came & smashed it over the head with his mace. With its skull split open, the colossal elephant fell dead. Satyaki then shot a well-aimed arrow that cut off Salva’s head

 

Sahadev picked his bow & pierced Sakuni with his arrows. As Bhima came to help Sahadev, he managed to break Sakuni’s bow

 

Sakuni’s son Uluka joined his father. He thought that the time had come for him to display his true, heroism & so he rushed impetuously at Sahadev. Uluka’s bravado was short-lived, however, because Sahadev cut off his head with a broad-headed arrow. After witnessing death of his dear son, Sakuni tearfully remembered Vidura’s words. While breathing heavily, he rushed at Sahadev to take revenge. Sahadev broke Sakuni’s bow as he approached him & so the son of Subala next took a sword & hurled it

 

Sahadev easily broke that sword to pieces & Sakuni proceeded to hurl innumerable weapons one after other. The son of Madri cut them all to pieces & so at last Sakuni fearfully fled while the soldiers protecting him followed. At that time Sahadev remembered how Sakuni had been allotted to him as his quota & so with great determination he chased him

 

While striking in the back with his arrows, Sahadev challenged: You wretch! Turn around & fight so that you can receive the long-awaited results of your deceitful dice playing

 

After hearing this, Sakuni turned around & so Sahadev rushed at him. Then he succeeded in cutting down Gāndhar king’s flag & royal umbrella, Sahadev roared like a maddened lion. As Mādri’s son continued to pierce him deeply, Sakuni decided to make a final do-or-die effort by rushing at him with an upraised lance

 

With three arrows, Sahadev cut that lance in half & severed Sakuni’s arms. Then, with another well-aimed arrow, he cut-off wicked Sakuni’s head. Upon seeing this, Sri Krsna & other Pāndavās greatly rejoiced

 

We all act wrongly sometimes, but not all wrong actions are serious. Some could indicate weakness & some pure wickedness. We can by our intelligence rationally analyse our actions and if our they are driven by base impulses like lust, greed, anger etc, we feel remorseful for our actions

 

But if our actions are repeated & if our inner conscience is dead, then we hardly feel bad about it. Our intelligence is taken over by impulses & we plot wrong actions deliberately to hurt others. In fact, we may rationalize our cold-blooded actions. That is wickedness beyond reform, which should be curbed & penalised, like in the case of Sakuni

 

If we are engaged in devotional service, we can get rid of such wickedness and get reformed

 

Do we? Thoughts?

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