Facing Challenging Times

Control what you can, let go what you can't

- Smt. Manjula Shukla

In a creative narration of the Mahabharata, Draupadi raves and rants at Krishna.

Why did he not stop the sequence of events? Why did her sons have to die after the war was won? And if he was indeed divine and God incarnate, why wasn't he bringing them back to life? Krishna’s answer was short but deep and insightful: They had lived the purpose of their births.

This is a major and profound understanding in today's times when we see so much death and destruction mindlessly happening around us. It seems aimless, without thought, ego massaging for the men in power. How is the common man to derive some meaning of this?