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Story 14 Gandhari, Duryodhana, Krsna
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PRABHUPĀDA: Everyone was
determined, “I must kill.”
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Duryodhana was determined to kill
Bhīma, and Bhīma was determined to kill.
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So when they did not listen
to the instruction of Baladeva,
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then Baladeva left the place.
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He went to Dvārakā, back.
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Of course, Kṛṣṇa was there,
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because Kṛṣṇa was to give hint
to Bhīma how to kill Duryodhana.
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So, Duryodhana, by the
blessings of his mother,
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his whole body
became iron-like solid.
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So by beating by the
Bhīma, it was not easy.
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So the story is that Gāndhārī,
the mother of Duryodhana,
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she was great chaste woman.
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Because her husband was blind,
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she used to remain as blind
woman covering the eyes.
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But she had some power.
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Chaste woman, anyone who
sticks to the regulative principles,
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he gets a power,
spiritual or material.
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Gets power.
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A brahmacārī gets power
if he follows brahmacarya.
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Everyone, if we follow the
prescribed rules and regulations,
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automatically you
become powerful.
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So, Gāndhārī had some power.
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So [her] eldest son, Duryodhana, was
advised to see the mother naked.
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She advised,
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“My dear son,
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tomorrow morning when you come
to offer your obeisances to me,
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you come naked.
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I shall see you and you will
be solidified just like iron.”
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So [he] was going
naked and Kṛṣṇa saw.
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So He asked him,
“Where you are going?”
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“This is the… I am going
to see my mother.”
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“How is that?
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You are going naked?
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At least you have some langota[?].
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This is not good.”
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So he took the instruction of Kṛṣṇa and
covered the private part with a langota.
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And, when Gāndhārī saw; she saw that
[he] was not fully naked, so she regretted,
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“O my dear son, I asked you
to come before me naked.
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Why you have got this…?”
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“No, Kṛṣṇa advised.”
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Then she began to smile,
that “My attempt is failure.”
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So Kṛṣṇa knew it, that part which was
covered, that was not turned iron.
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The other parts turned into iron
on account of seeing by Gāndhārī.
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So in this fight Kṛṣṇa hinted
Bhīma that “You strike here.
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That part is not ironized.”
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Although it is against
the regulative principle
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to strike the opponent
party below this waist,
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Kṛṣṇa advised that “Unless you
transgress this law, you cannot kill him.”
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So he was stroken below the waist, and he
was not killed, but his waist was broken.
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Therefore it is said
vṛkodarāviddha-gadābhimarśa.
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Then he died.
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