Browsing through channels I stumbled across Lok Sabha TV. Being a government channel, rarely it is able to capture the audience while browsing, but that day it managed to grab my attention.
There was a granny; telling story to a child (in some South Indian language, alien to me, but the picturization of scene of so beautiful, that I stopped browsing and started to watch it; of course there were English sub titles..)
It was a story that we all have heard many times...Pandavas' and Kauravas' in Mahabharat....
Pandavas' - The good people.. Fighting the battle.. Maha Bharat for 'धर्मं'.....
Kauravas' - The evil people.... Fighting the battle for Kingdom, Money i.e. mortal causes....
We all know the story... but Granny had an addition which I never heard...
After death -
All Pandavas' went to hell... and Yudhishthira..The epitome of 'धर्मं'.. The well known धर्मराज... was given harshest of punishments.....
And surprisingly, all Kauravas' went to heaven..
Now this was completely opposite of conventional stories that I have heard so far...I couldn't understand why is Granny saying this; so was the child listening the story...and asked flurry of questions to Granny, and best point is that even I had same questions.. (This is best part of Direction, kudos to the Director of Tele film for this, he was able to connect to a person who did not understand his language)
Then comes Granny's answer...
Kauravs' always "SAID" that their goal was "Kingdom, Money" and they fought for it and lost life fighting for their ideals..i.e. no difference in कथनी और करनी
Pandavas' always "SAID" that they were following 'धर्मं', their ideals was always on the "Moral" side..
But objectively speaking, their behaviour was not completely according to 'धर्मं'..
Fighting for the lost kingdom is a mere mortal behaviour...i.e. there is clear difference "Ideals" and "Actions".... which lead them to hell..
(I know that I am too small of a person with very little understanding of things to comment anything on 'धर्मं', and I'll not try to comment whether behaviour of Pandavas' was according to 'धर्मं')
But for me - I got the message - Difference in Ideals and Actions - It really doesn't matter what are my ideals unless I stand by them; if my actions are not according to my ideals then there is no point in having ideals. What do you think?
