Everyone has the full freedom the follow the pathway of his choice

Of all the things that one can attain in life there is nothing that even remotely compares with the attainment of self-realization. When one reawakens his original enlightened consciousness this attainment far exceeds even the greatest accomplishments of world history. The benefit the awakened soul achieves are eternal and ever-increasingly auspicious unlike the temporary fizzling-out benefits of material attainments.

But for most people there is no question of searching for self-realization. They are simply interested in how to make money as much as possible and spend it for gratifying their senses and the senses of their family members. Even for those rare persons who have an inclination for self-realization, in most cases it is way down on their list of priorities. So the rarest are those who make self-realization the number one purpose of their existence. And the rarest of the rare are those who properly tread the pathway of self-realization following in the footsteps of a bona fide spiritual master.

Everyone has the full freedom the follow the pathway of his choice. If one wants to remain in the cycle of birth, death, old age, disease, Krishna will fully facilitate him. And if one wants to finish up his rotation in this never-ending cycle, Krishna will provide him with a bona fide spiritual who can save him.

All we have to do is sincerely desire to attain spiritual perfection and then we will see how Krishna has given us everything we need in order to attain it. We will see how He has given us His teachings in form of the Bhagavad-gita. We will appreciate how He has made Himself so easily available in the form of His inconceivably sweet holy names. And we will be in a state of wonder to see how we can so easily approach Him and qualify to become one of His intimate associates by serving His pure representative, the bona fide spiritual master.

Dharamputra lost everything—his Kingdom , his brothers and also his wife.

Duryodhana watching the increasing prosperity of the Pandavas could contain himself no longer. He openly challenged Dharamputra for a game of dice. Sakuni, deceit in human form, was the uncle of the Kouravas. He played for them . Inevitably Dharamputra lost everything—his Kingdom , his brothers and also his wife.

Not satisfied with this gain, duryodhana tried to insult Droupadi in public . By krishna’s grace, nothing disastrous happened . Dhritarastra , fearing that this might bring unforeseen calamities begged droupadi to take whatever she wanted. She asked for the freedom of her husbands. It was granted.

Dhritarastra due to his excessive love for the eldest son was blind to what is right and what is wrong. So again Duryodhana invited Dharamputra for another game of dice, and the bet was that the loser would live in the forest for 13 years without any claim to kingdom, the last year to be spent incognito . But if in the thirteenth year, they were detected , again a a round of 13 years’ exile; and this would go on for ever.

Dharamputra again lost. During the twelve years’ sojourn in the forests, the pandavas visited many holy places. They had many interesting adventures this time. One of them to hanuman’s friendship and grace. Arjuna is called Kapidhvaja as he keeps on his flag the emblem of Hanuman. Krishna visited them now and then. Arjuna , at the advice of Vyasa, practiced penance,propitiated Siva and got from Him the mighty weapon, the Pashupatastra. He propitiated also the other gods, Indra, Agni, Varuna and others and got from all of them very powerful weapons. Thus the twelve years were not wasted but spent in securing the divine weapons, which would come useful later on.