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Sri Krishnaya Namah!

Lord Krishna knows for sure that if any one that Drona believes is only the 
word of Yudhistira and hence He creates a scenario where Yudhistira, seeing 
the elephant named Ashwathama being killed by Bhima, shouts likewise, and 
the intermittent sounds spell blocking Yudhistira's words doom for Drona, 
who only hears the worst, thus enabling Yudhistira to see the worst in the 
hell, for his unknowing fault.

Actually, in this scenario, nobody is to be blamed except Drona, who had 
partaken the side of Adharma, that made Lord Krishna resort to such 
measures. Dharmaraya, as is his wont, cannot tell a lie and he had been 
dragged by the Lord, rather used by Him to authenticate the statement. 
Thus Lord Krishna, uses one fine quality of Dharmaraya to its good use at 
an most opportune time. He manipulates the situation in His own way and 
His leela is incomprehensible. Here Yudhistira, though not intended to 
say lie, has been made to see Hell, just because Drona understood his 
words differently(though due to intermittent sound) thus sacrificing his 
life.


Sukumar

Sri Krishna Parabrahmane Namah!


-----Original Message-----
From:   Gowri Raviganesh [SMTP:gowri.raviganesh@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent:   12/06/2003 11:27 AM
To:     Oppiliappan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:        [Oppiliappan] Re: Yudhishtara's lies

Dear Sri Sudharshan,

Agreed Yudhistar suppressed the truth (not being truthful) . But my 
understanding is that such acts are considered being truthful if it leads 
for a good cause ( in this case lead to victory of Dharma)?

adiyen'
Lakshmi

>>> sampathkumar_2000@xxxxxxxxx 06/09/03 12:21am >>>

Sir,

Wise men of the past tell us that there is a world of a difference
between "Being truthful" and "Speaking the truth".

WHen the Upanishad says "satyam vada", it means "Be truthful" at all
times. This phrase does not mean "Speak the truth".

Yudhishtara when he cried out "asvattAmA hatah kunjara:" he was
surely "speaking the truth" but was he really "being truthful"? No.
He was referring to an elephant called AsvattAma being felled
although he knew it was only meant to convey to Drona the false
impression that Asvattama, his son, was no more.

In Latin there is a saying that "suppressio veri" and "suggestio
falsi" are one and the same i.e. one can be untruthful in 2 ways: you
can suppress truth as well as suggest falsehood. In both cases one
would be violating the real spirit of the Upanishadic dictum "satyam
vada..".

Trust this clarifies your question.

Regards,
dAsan,
Sudarshan



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