Wisdom from the Mahabharat: Do What Is Right Not What Is Profitable!

byGaurav Yadav

Towards the end of their 12-year-long exile, the Pandavs were residing in Dvaitvan. While the brothers were sitting together, a Brahman approached them in a state of panic and said, “I left my churning rod, used to light a fire through friction, against a tree. But a deer rubbed itself against the tree and the rod got stuck to its antlers. The frightened deer rushed away with giant leaps. Please follow the deer and bring my rod back so that my Vedic fire ritual is not spoilt.”

Wisdom from the Mahabharat: Do What Is Right Not What Is Profitable!

Yudhishthir in Conversation With the Yaksh The five Pandavs swiftly rushed after the deer. They saw it at some distance and hurled arrows at it, but could not strike it. They tried several times, but the deer evaded them and disappeared. The Pandavs were exhausted, hungry and thirsty. Yudhishth