Dear Sriman Sudarshan,
My knee-jerk reaction to rather interesting question by
Smt. Narayan is as follows:
Draupadi's sharanagati to Lord was to save her from that particular helpless
situation and not for salvation.
Her goal was to become the queen of Hastinapura and
avenge the Kauravas which is true xatriya (Raja) dharma.
Lord promptly saved her after she totally surrenedered
for protection from disrobing. Once save dfrom the imminent danger, she is on
her own (of her own choice) and took the vow to instigate her
husbands(especially Bheema) to deal with Dushasana. If that was wrong, surely
the Lord would have talked her out, after all, the lord had just saved her ,
wouldn't she have listened? Lord must have found that vow appropriate.
Dushasana deserved what he got in the hands of Bheema. Even the lord who is
ever friend of Pandavas encouraged them to fight and when Arjuna performed
sharanagati, asked him to fight. That is the way of Dharma
(Krishna ne dharma ki reet sikayi).
Looks like it is Draupadi who understood the lord most.
(No wonder Will Durant said that fall of india was because India failed to
apply Bhagavadgita. How can a country that produced Gita could be enslaved?
Durant wondered).
dAsan
K.S. tAtAchAr
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