Mahabharat

Whoever raises his weapon againts Hastinaour

shall have to pay the price for it!

You are right, Grandsire!

It isn't your skills that are being displayed in this battle

but it is your weakness that is exposed.

If you were capable indeed

instead of taking the lives of your heirs and descendants

you would lay down your own life!

I...

am bound by my duty, Khrisna!

Duties grant liberation!

What duty is this that blinds you instead?

Surely this isn't your duty

but a snare!

A shackle!

Do not question my sense of duty, Khrisna!

In my entire life never for a moment have I commited injustice!

In order to fulfill the promise I made to my father I only did what was necessary!

Just for the sake of your duty you are plunging the whole world into peril!

I do not consider this the strength of character.

A character is which strives towards everyone's well being, every moment.

Your character is tainted and so is your duty!

Khrisna!

You are crossing your limit!

I respect you very much!

But you have no rights to call one's duties tainted!

My duty is truth!

And therefore, no one can defeat me!

- No one! - I can defeat you!

I can defeat you this very moment, Grandsire Bheeshma!

Do not fan the flames of my anger!

There is no such metal that does not meal in my fire!

And there is no oath, no curse or no blessing

that I cannot violate!

You are being a hindrance to worldly well being and the course of destiny.

If you do not lay down your weapons now

I shall surely slay you!

I do not even need a weapon to slay you!

I can slay you even with the wheel of this chariot!

Khrisna!

Why aren't my arrows able to reach you, Khrisna?

I am not Vasudeva Khrisna!

I am not a Yadava!

I am not even human!

I am the most supreme God, Grandsire!

I am truth, knowledge and justice!

You are fighting only with my permission!

You are alive only with my consent.

And it is with my consent that you may acquire death!

Please forgive me, Khrisna!

I was unaware of your true form.

You are indeed capable of slaying me.

But in order to slay me, you are willing to violate you oath.

I must indeed be largely at fault!

What is my fault, Khrisna? Please tell me!

Your fault is ignorance, Grandsire!

You never tried to comprehend the true form of justice!

Until the roof of compassion spans the entire world

until then justice in society stays incomplete.

But you only thought about your family.

You never thought about worldly well being!

Therefore even your sacrifice is a form of selfishness.

I renounced royalty for the sake of my father!

I swore to a lifetime of celibacy.

There were no selfish motives for these, Khrisna!

The oath to celibacy and renouncement of royalty were indeed great deeds!

But why did you give up your responsibility towards the society, Grandsire?

In order to avoid mutual conflict within the Kuru clan

and to avoid war in Hastinapur for the throne

and to protect the subjects of Kuru dynasty from pain.

I took up this oath, Khrisna.

Look all around you, Grandsire?

What is going on here?

Your oath did not avoid this catastrophe, this war!

Ponder over it, Grandsire!

You treated your oath as your duty!

If it indeed were just

why would this great war occur?

In reality, justice isn't a name of a forgotten thought.

It isn't the name of any tradition either.

Justice is the name of life!

And life changes constantly!

Changes is the characteristic of life!

And a human must commit deeds for the sake of change!

Yet you give up on deeds, Grandsire?

But I have acted only appropriately at every step of life, Khrisna.

No, Grandsire!

In this birth of yours

in order to keep yourself from the ties of actions

you have not truly engaged in any significant action.

The meaning of actions is taking decisions and accepting the consequences of one's actions.

But when did you take any decision, Your Excellency?

Was crowning King Pandu your decision?

'A person who is blind since birth'

'is unworthy of becoming the King.'

'That is why I suggest'