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Mahabharata is an absolutely breathtaking exploration of the "Greatest story ever told" whatever language it is written. It is called Panchama Veda, for the knowledge, it has delivered. Why it should be read by everyone? The answer is, it is a great personality development book. From kids to elders, everyone has something to learn from it. Let get into this:
1. Parenting:
Mahabharata
shows both good and bad parenting. Drutarastra loved his son so much that he could not find faults in his behaviour. And he encouraged
Duryodhana, so he became jealous.
Kunti never discriminated Madris sons. Instead, he took more care for them. Likewise, Drona, the teacher for the Kuru clan, taught Brahmastra to Arjuna only, not even his son Aswathama, because he knows about his son. As a parent, he knows how tempered his son was.
2. How hobbies are useful:
Things
we learnt as a hobby can save our life sometimes. Just like the hobbies of Pandavas saved them during 'exile'. Bhima was a great cook, Nakula and Sahadeva have very good knowledge about cows and horses. With these hobbies, they found their living, when they were in exile.
3. Overcoming the challenges and changing it to positive:
Pandavas
life is not a cakewalk. They lost their father at a very small age. Their uncle was not ready to give their kingdom. Their cousins were not in good terms with them. They tried to kill Pandavas many times. Still, they got the positive side of it and learnt to live without a kingdom. During their exile,
Urvasi, Indra's maiden cursed Arjuna to become a eunuch. He accepted that and used it during the exile.
4. Handling bad situations:
By
reading Mahabharatam, you can know how to handle bad situations.
Pandavas were born to a king, but right from childhood, they didn't experience royalty. Right after they got their kingdom, Pandavas lost in Dice game and went to the forest. They didn't sit idle during their exile period.
Yudhishthira learnt Aksha Sastra, the study of dice and Arjuna got
Pasupatam most powerful Astra required for the war.
5. Be humble :
When
Duryodhana tried to kill them in a fire accident, they ran off and literally begged for food. They were rulers for India, but when time is
not in their hands, they were very humble and served a small king
Virata.
6. Be Ferocious:
Whenever
they got chance, Pandavas has shown their power. At the time everyone thought Pandavas were killed, Arjuna won Draupadi, by solving Matsya yantra, which is a very tough task for archers. Bakasura, Hindimbasura,
Keechaka, all these demons were killed by Bheema when they were unidentified. Finally, in Kurukshetra, the number of the army didn't bother them. They had very less number of the army when compared to Kauravas. They believed themselves.
7. Don't be straight forward always:
Being
brave means not going after trouble. To kill Keechaka without being spotted, Draupadi acted like she loved him. Yudhishthira murmured the truth to kill his enemy. Sometimes being cunning also works.
8. Handling emotions:
Yes, Pandavas also got depressed when they lost their kingdom overnight. But they patted themselves to go on with the situation and learnt what to do. Duryodhana on another side, he didn't handle his jealousy properly. If he did, he would have lived. Duryodhana, Drutarastra had the kingdom but they were very restless all the time. Their bad intentions destroyed their clan.
9. Discipline:
5
men had 1 wife. Isn't the reason is enough to fight among themselves?
But they didn't fight. It's because of their discipline. Wherever they were Pandavas did their rituals. When they were in exile, to feed the priests who came along with them, they got Akshaya Patra. They didn't have thought "Wait, why to feed these people? We ourself didn't have anything". They respected their Dharma or discipline. Bheema was the most ferocious and aggressive in nature. During exile, he didn't even utter a
word without Yudhistara's acceptance.
10. Advantage of being together
During
Ghosha yatra Yudhishthira asked Bhima to help Duryodhana, even though
Duryodhana was his enemy. Just because they were brothers and the
Gandharva is an outsider.
I quoted only a few. It is an ocean if you are willing to learn from it.
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