Krishna's mission
- Dhritarashtra finds out that Krishna will soon arrive, and he calls for a lavish reception. This is a different opinion than what Vidura insists what Krishna would like. Krishna is believed to stand for what if right. Krishna in this story is depicted as the harbringer of peace, and yet Duryodhana is the polar opposite, with plans to take Krishna prisoner and has no hope for any peace or reconcilliation
- Krishna, while opposed to war in general, still insists that Dhrishtadyumna become the commander of the troops.
- The Bhagavad-Gita is essentially the hype up song for the entire battle. I could see writing a contemporary version of the exchange between Arjuna and Krishna before the battle turning into a coach trying to get his football team hyped up in preparation for the state championship game. After the hype music is over, the team has become electric and proceeds to fly out to the field to take on the opposing team.
- Bhishma is shot from behind by Arjuna, which definitely correlates back to the story in the Ramayana where it was not right to shoot someone in the back.
- This is an example of another one of the themes in these Epics where a woman is used to exacerbate the fatal flaw of Bhishma.
- Bhishma is finally cremated and laid out on the shores on the Ganges, in a cyclical example of Karma. This is a nice juxtaposition of how nice of a mother the Ganges had become once Bhishma died compared to what she was when drowning her first 7 sons.
- Since I have written a twitter conversation previously, there's no reason that the interaction between Bhishma and his mother can't be done through social media again!
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