[At Abhimanyu's funeral]
Dhrishtadyumna: *places his hand on the pyre and sobs*
Dhrishtadyumna: how could you do this to me? we are so understaffed
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One more person calling Shikhandi:
1. A masculine woman
2. Intersex
3. A trans woman
And I'll commit a hate crime I swear.
He was a trans man. He was just a dude. End of discussion.
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Rukmini: this is my husband, Krishna. This is Krishna's husband, Arjun. This is Arjun's wife, Subhadra. And I'm Subhadra's wife, Rukmini.
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Duryodhan: How do you just eat when there's a dead guy laying there?
Bheem: What, is that rude? Am I supposed to share?
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I relate to Arjun so much (I need Krishna to come down and whack me over the head and yell at me to do my kartavya too)
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Shree Vasudev Krishna
[Art by Pradeep Sethi]
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Ok one thing they don't show on screen of Mahabharat Adaptation is Draudapi was “Rajasvala” meaning “a menstruating woman” when the whole cheer-haran happened.
At that time, a Rajavala used to wear one single cloth or “Ekvastra”, so when the horrific vastra-haran began, it was that vastra that turned to a never-ending miracle.
One thing that I also noticed is how there's now this disgusting taboo that a woman is "impure" during her period, but Kanha ji listened and he came to her rescue when she called. He turned that same blood-stained cloth never-ending just to save her honor!
I wish this taboo will go away because God is in You so how can you ever be “Impure” especially experiencing something very natural and perhaps healthy too? He would've come to her rescue whether she was menstruating or not, but I love this detail because this signifies that nothing makes a difference to him, so why are we making women feel bad or worse "impure" in the name of God when not even God feels this way?
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Arjun and Krishna
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Bigots think denying trans people the right to be in sports is a groundbreaking new idea.
Meanwhile 5000 years ago, the peeps in Mahabharat be like: SHIKHANDI CANT PLAY WITH US BECAUSE HE IS ACTUALLY A GIRL AND GIRLS DONT GO TO WAR WAAAHHHHH!
And then Shikhandi killed his enemy with the help of literal GOD and became a hero because the real villains all along were transphobia and misogyny.
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“My mind is always fixed on Rukmini, just like hers is on me. I can’t even sleep at night.” — Srimad Bhagvatam
😭😭😭💗🧿
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Arjun: you call yourself soul mate, but where were you when my meme had only 4 likes?
Krishna: making four accounts, bro
Arjun, tearing up: bro-
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Arjun: *clenching his fists* Fight me!
Krishna, standing behind him, sudarshan chakra in hand: *mouthes* Do not.
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So I did a thing
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Duryodhan: You know, sometimes it's just nice to be wanted.
Karna: Not by the LAW!
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Something I find fascinating about the Critical Edition of the Mahābhārata is that the characters sporadically move from addressing Kṛṣṇa as an embodied mortal (as their friend, cousin, son-in-law etc) to addressing him as the Godhead; as Viṣṇu, as the Supreme Being, and as Īśvara. The succession of change between the modes of address can sometimes even happen on the same page, at a distance of a few lines. The veil is lifted, and the characters see through Kṛṣṇa’s illusion, and, through that, they become immersed in the nature of Reality; the veil promptly drops back, and God is lost. An argument for this could be that the divine modes of address are interpolations, a theory being that Kṛṣṇa became identified with Viṣṇu only in later renditions of the Mahābhārata. While this could be true at the level of historical analysis of the epic, for me, there is a subtler teaching encased here: how all of us, without exception, glimpse into the nature of Reality as we move through life, yet we perpetually proceed to return to becoming engrossed in the superimpositions we project upon Reality; and the dance continues. From Truth to dream, from dream to Truth. It is quite endearing, really. What committed and imaginative dreamers we are!
Adyashanti once talked about how one inadvertently glimpses truth; it is, after all, inescapable as it is our nature; the trick is not forgetting / losing the glimpse.
Gorgeous artwork of Kṛṣṇa: Awedict.
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