Here in this piece I'm neither repeating the verses just we saw in the last week, nor the transliteration.
We began with the 🙏 prayer, Gita Dhyan and have seen first six verses in Chapter 1, viz., Arjuna Vishada Yoga. Though we Bharatheeya have heard our grandmothers, parents and elders narrating epics, Ramayana, Maha Bharath, not in many numbers that we would have turned to read them verse by verse, leave alone scholars who are well versed in them.
This piece is to recap what we have gone through in first five verses. Chapter begins with the King Dratrashtra asking his unbiased, straightforward Minister Sanjaya to narrate what precisely was happening in Kurukshetra battle between his son Duryodana's Gaurav side and the other Pandava's side.
The king Dratrashtra was visionless and also not visionary. Because Kurukshetra was holy place, saturated with many Yajnas having happened there, the blind king had an illusion. That in the divine Kurukshetra Darma wouldn't like to wage a bloody war but would retreat. Then it would be easy and no blame of waging a war would fall on Gaurav's side. And it would clear the path to usurp Pandava's rightful space.
Why Sanjaya?
For, in recognition of Sanjaya's honest character, Ved Vyas endowed him with intuitive abilities to narrate flawlessly what was happening in battlefield. This was the very same reason, the King Dratrashtra chose Sanjaya over others to convey happenings at the war front.
In Sanjaya's narration, he refers to Duryodhana's rushing to Acharya Drona. He chides Acharya for having trained Son of Drupada in aechery. Duryodana went on to explain who were all gathered on Pandava's side to fight against Gaurava. Duryodana got shivering seeing the army of Pandava. His mental agony was prelude to his entailing defeat.
