Mahabharata pursues symbolism and day to day science through such calmity that it is astounding.
The two lesser known characters I intend to discuus is kichaka and jayadratha and how they can be explained in self and the personal level.
Having pledged to enter the fire if he failed to kill the Sindhu king Jayadratha, whom he held principally responsible, by the end of the day, Arjuna in the process kills an entire akshauhini, or more than hundreds of thousands of soldiers. In the climactic moment, the sun is close to setting and thousands of warriors still separate Arjuna and Jayadratha. Seeing his friend's plight, the Lord Krishna, his charioteer raises his Sudarshana Chakra to cover the Sun, faking a sunset. The Kaurava warriors rejoice over Arjuna's defeat and imminent death, and Jayadratha is exposed in a crucial moment, where upon the Lord's urging, Arjuna sets loose a powerful arrow that decapitates Jayadratha. This note of the act of protection of Krishna of his righteous friend and disciple will be incomplete without adding that Jayadratha's father, the old and sinful king Vridhakshtra had blessed his son that anyone who caused his head to fall to the ground would cause his own head to burst. Jayadratha's head is carried by the arrow to his own father's hands, who was meditating near the battlefield; who in his shock drops the head and himself dies of his own blessing.riddle of the Sunset happening twice on 29th October 5561 BC, when Jayadratha was killed. It was not a divine miracle done by Krishna, but was a physical phenomenon caused by refraction of the Sunrays, like the mirage.Jayadratha was killed by Arjuna breaking the layers of chakravuha.It is not proven whether jayadratha was killed by breaking the chakravuha but Arjuna had conqured the vuha.Arjuna in the physchological level represents self .Jayadratha represents a mirage and chakravuha the seven levels or layers of mind the seven levels of kundalini.Jayadratha was thus an illusion of mind;Jayadratha was killed at the bank of a river which is also scientifically viable for generation of the mirage as air warms up giving the sense of a mirage.Why does arjuna vow to kill jayadratha and hold him responsible for killing.Abhimanyu represents the self but he has not conquered the topmost kundali that of ego.An person with ego would believe a mirage or would atleast try to go near and check it.
Another proof A person in a desert wandering around seeking water would check for a mirage or try for it building his hopes and intelligence around.This is symbolic for the head.But when he reaches that spot the mirage is gone ,killed and with it his hopes of finding water and likely drop to the ground.Thus anyone who killed jayadratha would pay the price of loosing his own head or mind.
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