Lord Krishna Saves Yudhisthira From Death.
Krishna and Arjuna return to their camp to see the Yudhishthira, wounded by Karna. Hearing that Karna was still alive, Yudhishthira was agitated and spoke harshly with arjuna saying, "you should hand over your Gandhi bow to someone else because of his cowardly act".
When scorched by Yudhisthria's words, Arjuna drew his sword and was prepared to kill his brother. Quickly Lord Krishna pacified arjuna and asked why he doing this. Arjuna said, "I have become a secret vow, O Govinda, that anyone which suggests that I invest my Gandiva bow to another king should be slain. To keep my promise, I will now kill this buddy".
The lotus-eyed Lord then spoke to Arjuna these words, "O tiger among men, you have agreed to anger at a time whenever you should not hold ingested so. No one, he is conversant with truth, would act in this way. You desire to commit a deep that is punished by the holy scriptures. Everything has to be seen within the eyes of scripture and great saintly persons.
To kill one's older brother can never be sanctioned by learned personalities. The killing of a character not engaged in battle, or one who has turned his face from battle, or one who seeks protection, or one who is careless, is nerve authorized by scripture.
Why suddenly do you wish to kill this revered superior?
Morality is very difficult to understand. Listen to a story demonstrating this point. once there was an ascetic named Kausika, who did not have much scriptural knowledge. He lived a small distance from a village where several rivers met.
He made a vow saying, " I will always speak the truth. He then became famous as one never told a lie. One day some innocent persons, who were seeking refuge from some robbers, entered the forest near the sage's dwelling. Soon, the dacoits appeared there searching for these men to rob them.
They inquired Kausika, 'O holy one, by which path have those men gone who recently came here'. When questioned in his way, Kausika said, ' Those men have entered the woods just near here'.The cruel thieves then slaughtered those innocent persons and took their wealth. For this sin, Kausika fell for this sin, Kausika fell into hellish life and suffered greatly.