the Mahabharat

The Mahabharata, written by sage Vyasa, is an epic story of the conflict between the five Pandava brothers, and their one hundred cousins the Kauravas.

The story drives home, as nothing else does, the futility and sad outcomes of anger, ambition, hatred and vengeance. "Revenge" at all levels is the central core of this epic story.

It is also a romantic story telling the tales of heroic men and women and some "realized" beings. It is a literary thesis containing a code of life, a philosophy of social and ethical relations, and an observation of human frailties that continue to recur through the centuries.

The conflict between the Pandavas and Kauravas ultimately brings them to the battlefield at and a war is fought that practically destroys a whole generation. Incorporated in this melodrama of human events, is embedded the jewel, "The Bhagvad Gita."

there will be my own addition to the story.