… And War

  It takes a hell lot of a courage to kill someone. It takes more than that to stab the same from behind. The guilt and those sleepless nights become a slow poison slowly eating your soul until what remains is just a heavy patch of darkness. Krishna wanted a unified Bharat nation. And he knew the price of unification will be only paid by the equal blood of the loved ones and the hated ones. But the war of Mahabharata saw the family members on both the sides and in between stood a man who without blinking threw away all the morals aside to see that his vision lives.   Be it convincing Pandavas to go and ask Bhishma himself on how to defeat the latter. Or using Ghatotkach as a pawn to save Arjuna. Provoking Arjuna to kill unarmed Karna or signaling Bhima to smash Duryodhana’s thigh even though it was against the rules of mace battle. Krishna did everything off the books. He sure has not taken any lives but he did have lots of blood on his hands.   (Krishna instructing Arjuna to kill unarmed Karna) As long as no one sees at the moment, no one cares at the moment. When the question of morality came during any bloody confrontation, Krishna believed in only one moral, which was not to have any morals.