The Pandavas are exiled to the forests and are settling down gradually, even beginning to enjoy the calm of nature. The audience thoroughly enjoyed the play and we bring you some pictures from the green room. The point of the story of the Yaksha is that the comfort of the palace may not teach what the hardship of the forest can. After these years spent in the forest, Yudhishtra had become a better man – shown by his concern for Madri. Sadhguru reminds us that during the game of dice, Yudhishtra had staked his half-brothers Nakula and Sahadeva first. Happy with his nobility, the Yaksha revives them all. On being questioned on his choice, Yudhisthra responds that of their mothers Kunti and Madri, Kunti has one son alive in him and that it is only fair that Madri have one son living too. Pleased, the Yaksha asks him to name one brother who could be revived.
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When he arrives at the spot, the Yaksha asks Yudhisthra a series of questions to which he has all the answers. Sadhguru jokes that the ubiquitous Udipi restaurants are feeding the country to this day.Īs the Pandavas seek some water in the forest, Nakula, Sahadeva, Arjuna and Bhima fall prey to a Yaksha's lure and fall dead.
But instead of joining one side, he preferred to stay neutral and supply the food to both armies at Kurukshetra. Sadhguru tells that the King of Udipi was approached by both the warring parties for his support. The Udipi connection is particularly relevant because of the history. There were also Udipi specialtes, Neer dosa and Ragi dosa. Now slowly, to trace the movements of the Pandavas over the subcontinent, the specialties are increasingly from South India. The initial days saw mostly North Indian fare with tandoori rotis and sabzis. Sweetmeat experts from Andhra Pradesh as well as cooks from North India have been invited to prepare the tables for this event.īut there is a pattern and a method to the foods being presented here. It's no surprise that the meals at the Mahabharat are excellent – after all Isha has a great reputation for presenting superb culinary fare. Or sometimes, if you have the necessary power or discrimination about your own life, you can discriminate between your mind, your karma, the life within you, then you can place your destiny into somebody else's hands out of utter devotion. Whether you make a garland of flowers, beads or bones, is determined now by your karma. "Destiny is only a string that makes a garland. Sadhguru then talks of what destiny is and how they must fulfil it here and now or somewhere else, it is just a question of time. Drishtadyumna, for instance, is destined to kill Drona, just as Shikhandi or Amba is certain to kill Bhishma. As hectic as one would imagine it to be for such a major event, what is most apparent is the joy with which they go about their activity.ĭescribing the battle, Sadhguru says some people in this story have very specific destinies. all this is done throughout the day or into the night before the session starts the following morning. Preparing flowers and refreshing the various arrangements, moving cushions for the theatrical performances, changing the clothes and decorations of the sculptures.
The volunteers and residents have been great facilitators for this event. Sadhguru says he burst into tears at the sight. Over the dark valley, a mountain peak, white and golden, lit by the sun from elsewhere. "However," Sadhguru went on, to chuckles from the audience, "in spite of so much water, it did not drown the bugs." After moving from bed to bed "so that I could feed all the bugs equally" he finally gave up at 3.30 and went out. As Sadhguru put down his pack and crashed on the mattress. He was led through alleyways to a room laid out with several beds and there was nobody else there.