Why did Krishna always helped Pandavas | Greatness of Pandavas





Come on friends, first let us understand the following:





What is the back ground of Pancha Pandavas?

Actually, who were Pancha Pandavas?





Let us start from the eldest of the Pandavas:





1. Yudhisthira: Meaning of Yudhisthira is





Yudhisthira = Yudhi + Sthira





Here Yudhi means, he is a person when in Yuddha / war, will be Sthira, means someone who can't be shaken or someone who is always stable (स्थिर / ಸ್ಥಿರ). Yudhisthira used to be an absolute firm person in all situations and conditions. He was a person who always decided once to do something, used to do that particular work and also in given stipulated time. His mind was always stable, firm and always convinced about his decisions.





Few more great points about Yudhisthira are as below:





Yudhisthira was the man of virtue and goodness. He never ever used to go against Dharma. His another name is called "Dharmaraya" or "Dharmaraja", means one who follows the GREAT SANATANA DHARMA. With this name he had another name called "Ajaatashatru", means one who don't even have a single enemy at all. Yudhisthira was highly learned person and also was a great warrior. He had mastered with the sphere fighting and chariot racing. Also he had great knowledge about the political science, psychology, the GREAT SANATANA DHARMA Shaastra etc. He was patient and adaptable. He never wanted the war and also tried to convince his uncle Dhritarashtra and his cousin brother Duryodhana. He forgives the king of Viraat, although the king broke his nose. This happened, when Yudhisthira was continuously praising the Bruhannala (Arjuna) and not Viraat's son Uttara Kumara. Yudhisthira always respected his elders including his uncle Dhritarashtra and aunt Gandhari even after the GREAT war of Kurukshetra. During his last days, when he almost went to Svarga loka, a dog had accompanied him. But since the dog was not allowed inside the Svarga loka, Yudhisthira said that he won't get inside the Svarga loka without the dog. He almost respected each and every orders of Sri Krishna, except in few cases. Tha shankha / couch of Yudhisthira was called as Ananta Vijaya.





Also he was an avatar of svayam Sri Yama Deva. Many of us know Sri Yama Deva is one of the most firm Devata / Demigod among all the different Devata / Demigods. Thus Yudhisthira been an avatar of Sri Yama Deva had all the gunas / qualities of Sri Yama Deva.





Pandavas discussing with Sri Krishna and Vidura





2. Bhima: Meaning of Bhima is





Bhima means bhayankara, means one who is fearless, one who is having awesome body, one who is having no fear against anybody. Also Bhima means very Balavanta, means very powerful (both physically and mentally).





Bhima used to be so terrific that even 1000 elephants were looking as mere ants in front of Bhima. Bhima is so powerful that he used to easily lift a huge mountain without any hardships. He was having a great body which was not able to be destroyed even by greatest warriors on this earth.





With just one roar, even many many wild animals used to hide in the caves and were not coming out of the caves for weeks together. Bhima was so powerful that he used to pull out the largest of the trees on the earth without any hardships.





Usually Bhima has been misrepresented nowadays (including on the television series). But the greatness of Bhima can't be explained so easily. But still I will try to add few more great points of Bhima as below:





Among the Pandavas he used to be the greatest gnani / knowledgeable person. He used to be highly powerful, righteous, handsome, intelligent etc. In Mahabharata he was the main hero after Sri Krishna. Someone who knows about great Bhima may be knowing when Bhima was still a baby he fell on a huge mountain called 'shata-shrunga' and this huge mountain broke into thousands of very small pieces. This was the greatness of Bhima. He was following Sri Krishna that other Pandavas were never ever been able to follow his foot steps. Bhima never ever went against Sri Krishna's words or wishes in his whole life. What ever Sri Krishna used to tell to Bhima, Bhima used to accept like none other. Bhima used to oblige each and every word of Sri Krishna. During the Kurukshetra yuddha / war, when Bhima used to roar, all the animals over there used to be so frightened that many of the animals used to die just hearing the roar of the GREAT BHIMA. During the 'lakshagriha' / wax palace time, the minister who tried to set fire the palace was never able to set fire the palace as Bhima was not at all sleeping (Earlier the plan was to set fire the whole palace when all the pancha Pandavas were asleep. But this never happened as Bhima never slept and thus the minister went ahead and set afire when Bhima was still awoke) - as said above don't go with the television show series story, rather try to get the information from the correct Guru about our GREAT SANATANA DHARMA. During the Kurukshetra war, Bhima alone killed shasti akshouhini sena (six akshouhini army) among the total eleven akshouhini sena. Many of us know that Yudhisthira accepted the exile in the forest after the game of dice. But Bhima never ever accepted this and was always waiting for the start of the war. Also we know that Arjuna was reluctant in fighting the war against the Kavravas, but Bhima was always ready to fight against the evil Kavravas as per the wishes of Sri Krishna. In the Kurukshetra war, Bhima killed most of the Duryodhana's (Kaliyuga's Kali) followers as per the wishes of Sri Krishna. Apart from these people, Bhima also killed unlimited number of Sri Krishna's enemies including Bakasura, Jarasandha, Keechaka, Kirmara, Hidimba, Manimantha and others. Bhima was the first to marry among the mighty Pandavas. Even though Yudhisthira was the eldest in the age, but since Sri Veda Vyasa Deva (he is also avatar of Sri Hari) ordered Bhima to get marry, Bhima without any reluctancy married Hidimbi. In Mahabharata, Karna was defeated by Bhima on several occasions (this has been not at all discussed on any media until today including television series). Bhima alone killed all the 100 Kavravas single handedly. Even though Duryodhana was the greatest enemy of Bhima, Duryodhana gives one and only compliment to Bhima is his whole life. The compliment is that Duryodhana names "Bhima, Balarama, Keechaka and Shalya as the best warriors on the earth". The most interesting point to be noted here is that Duryodhana names "Bhima" as the first and greatest warrior on this earth. While Bhima was killing Dushasana, Bhima chanted the "Manyu sukta" of Bhagavan Sri Lakshmi Naarasimha svamy which is very dearer to Sri Krishna. Even though in age wise Bhima was the second of the GREAT Pandavas, during the dice game when Yudhisthira plays this game, Bhima orders Arjuna to burn the hands of Yudhisthira. But Arjuna never does this and says that "he can't do this to his elders". But Bhima says that even though he is younger to Yudhisthira, just mentioning the words to burn the hands are enough to give punishment to Yudhisthira by his younger brother (Bhima). Bhima is the only person who raises the voice during the game of dice in the initial part of the game itself. The shankha / couch of Bhima was called as Poundra Khadga.





Bhima was the svayam avatar of the Devata / Demigod Sri Vaayu Deva. We all know without Vaayu / air nobody can live on this earth. Also we should note that Bhima and Hanuman are one and the same as both are the avatars of Sri Vaayu Deva.





Sri Vaayu Deva during the Tretayuga took birth as Sri Hanuman and served Sri Rama, and during the Dvaparayuga, Sri Vaayu Deva took birth as Sri Bhima Deva to serve Sri Krishna. Sri Vaayu Deva in his both the avatars never ever went against the words of Sri Rama / Sri Krishna / Sri Hari.





Pandavas with Sri Draupadi Devi









3. Arjuna: Meaning of Arjuna





There are multiple meanings of the word Arjuna, in that few meanings are silver, a tree name, very bright, superbly shiny, highly alert, etc.





Let us know more about the Great Arjuna:





Lord Agni Deva gives the Great Gandiva to the Great Arjuna. Lord Shiva gifts the Great Pashupatastra to Arjuna, after Arjuna gratifies Lord Shiva with a long tapasya. Arjuna was the most favourite student of Guru Dronacharya after Bhima. Arjuna defeated Karna, Bhishma, Dronacharya, Duryodhana, Kripacharya, Ashvatthama etc in the battle of Viraat single handedly. Bhishma and Karna were never able to defeat the Great Arjuna in any wars. Arjuna had Vaishnavastra, Brahmastra, Brahmashirastra, Pashupatastra etc. He was one of the best friend of Sri Krishna after Bhima. Arjuna easily destroyed many animals, beasts, in Khandava forest and also Arjuna with the help of Agnideva and Sri Krishna burnt the whole of the Khandava aranya / forest. Another name of Arjuna was Krishna, as Arjuna had the dark complexion like Sri Krishna. Arjuna was the Guru of highly talented people like Abhimanyu, Satyaki, Pradhyumna, Aniruddha, etc. Arjuna had great warrior sons like Abhimanyu (from Subhadra), Babruvahana (from Chitrangada) and others. Arjuna single handedly defeated many many kings for the Ashvamedha yagna which was performed by his eldest brother Yudhisthira. Arjuna easily defeated Karna in the Draupadi's svayamvara. Arjuna had learnt to shoot the arrow in the dark also. Arjuna had a name called Gudakesha, which means someone who could conquer the senses easily. Arjuna had ones saved Duryodhana against Gandharvas and had defeated Gandharvas' leader Chitrasena. Arjuna had great respects for his elder brother Bhima more than the eldest brother Yudhisthira. Arjuna was the best archer of his time after Bhima (many know that Bhima used to fight with only Gadha, but don't know that Bhima was a much better archer than Arjuna). The shankha / couch of Arjuna was called as Devadatta.



Arjuna was the svayam avatar of Sri Indra Deva. Arjuna / Indra Deva in his earlier life had taken avatar as Vaali (during Tretayuga period, that is during Sri Rama's period).





Sri Krishna preaching the Great Bhagavad Gita to Arjuna just before the Kurukshetra war









4. Nakula: Meaning of Nakula is





Strength, unity etc.





The special characteristics of Nakula are:

He was one of the best horse riders of his time and his speciality was that even in rain, he used to raid the horse without any hardships. Nakula was one of the most attractive and handsome man along with his brother Sahadeva. Nakula was one of the bravest swordsman of his time. He was one of the best at fencing. Nakula was very loyal to his brothers, wife and his parents. He was offered to be the king of Madra, but Nakula was very much loyal to his brothers and thus didn't accepted to be the king of Madra. Like his brother Sahadeva, Nakula was one of the best astrologer of his time. But Nakula was forgetting his predictions immediately after he used to tell the predictions of others. During the Kurukshetra war, Nakula easily defeated many like Dushasana, Shalya, Shakuni, Shakuni's son Ulooka etc. Apart from horse riding, Nakula was a very good horseman, horse breeder, treating the horses, charioteer and also expert in Ayurveda. Nakula was also a great diplomatic person and had acted as a very good diplomatic person in various matters in Mahabharata. Nakula's shankha / couch is known as Sughosha. Nakula is also called as Ashvineya, as he was the son of Ashvini Kumaras.



Nakula was the twin brother of the Ashvini Kumaras along with his younger brother Sahadeva.





Pandavas taking permission from Bhishma just before the start of the GREAT Kurukshetra war









5. Sahadeva: Meaning of Sahadeva is





Sahadeva = Saha + Deva, here Saha means a supporter and Deva means a Devata / Demigod Ashvini Kumara. Sahadeva means, someone who is always supportive, especially to his elder brothers starting from Yudhisthira, Bhima, Arjuna and Nakula.





The main characteristics of Sahadeva are:





Just like his brother Nakula, Sahadeva had also mastered in several things including animals' languages and communication. Not only animals, both the twin brothers were able to understand the languages and communications of all the plants too. Along with his brother Nakula, Sahadeva was also a learnt physician, as they were the avatars of the twin brothers Ashvini Kumaras (Ashvini Kumaras are the physicians of the Devata / Demigods). During the aranya vaasa / incognito period, both the brothers Nakula and Sahadeva along with their other brothers had been in the kingdom of Matsya Raaja. In this period all the cows were giving more milk and also the animals like horses were much more healthier than their previous times and also more than any other part of the world. Sahadeva's shankha / couch was known as Mani Pushpaka. Sahadeva was the master of axe fighting. Sahadeva had took the vow of killing Shakuni and he killed Shakuni in the battle of the Kurukshetra. With the blessings of Sri Krishna, Sahadeva was knowing about the future. He was knowing about the future of the Mahabharata war, but he never ever opened up about this with anyone regarding this secret as per the instructions of Sri Krishna. Sahadeva was also a master in astrology just like his twin brother Nakula. As his brother Nakula, Sahadeva is also called as Ashvineya, as Sahadeva was also a son and an avatar of Ashvini Kumaras.





Pandavas taking aashirvaada from Sri Veda Vyasa Deva Ji (an avatar of Sri Hari)









6. Draupadi Devi





I have written a separate post on this. You can visit this link to know the GREATNESS of Sri Draupadi Devi:







As the Pandavas were always on GREAT SANATANA DHARMA path, Sri Krishna never ever left the Pandavas hands in the time of their difficulties. Instead Sri Krishna taught them the lessons to be learnt from their difficulties and to utilise their time in correct way which was going to be useful for the Pandavas in their future.



Thus anyone who follows the GREAT SANATANA DHARMA, it is taken for granted that Sri Krishna is with them in any time of their lives (means Sri Krishna is with them always).



Now we need to think, why the GREAT PANDAVAS were so favourite to Sri Krishna? And also why they all were so GREAT?



These are only few reasons (there are unlimited reasons) why Sri Krishna always helped Pandavas.





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