We all might have heard story of Ekalavya in Mahabharata. Just to brief , ekalavya was leader of Nishada trible group. Who was staying nearby Dronacharyas ashram where in princes of hastinapur use to learn archery. From the childhood Ekalavya wanted to learn archery from Drona, but because of his lower caste he knew Drona will not accept him as his disciple. So he made out idol of drona and started practicing archery.With his efforts and faith in guru he became one of the best archer.
Later when Arjuna and drona came to know about Ekalavya and his archery , drona ask's for ekalavya's right thumb as guru dakshina ( offering to guru ). Ekalavya happily cut his right thumb and offered at Drona's feet.
Many people blame drona because of this incident. People say drona did it for blind love towards arjuna.
Drona wanted only Arjuna to be best archer at that time so he asked Ekalvya's right thumb so that ekalavya can no more use bow and arrow.
Even i had same stand towards drona till my guru explained the real truth behind this incident.
Just imagine what would have happened if drona could have excepted Ekalavya as his disciple.
Ekalavya could have become still more better archer , say equal to arjuna or even better then arjuna. Here one should not forget that Arjun was very strong and powerful archer. Drona knew that in battle filed it was very difficult for Ekalavya to defect arjuna. For sure Ekalavya could have been defeted and killed by arjuna , by his bravery and grace of krishna.
If this could have happened people could have never remembered name of Ekalavya so much.
Ekalavya's could have been remembered as a normal soldier who died in battle.
My guruji explained the real truth. Drona was immensely pleased with Ekalavyas faith in him and effort he has put to learn archery. And drona wanted coming generation to remember Ekalavya's name and his faith in guru. Drona was a perfect master who knew what should be given to whom. So he asked Ekalavyas right thumb so that he will not get chance to fight with Arjuna and people will respect Ekalavya till end as brave archer.
Dronacharya , kripacharya and Bhishmacharya were highly knowledgeable ,capable gurus who can never make mistakes. We people with limited knowledge and vision underestimate them.
Its only a guru can understand ability of another guru. Its only a guru who know 's faith of all and he is the perfect master who knows what and when should be given to whom.
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Can you write something about Shukracharya?
Sure .. Will write soon...
To brief Shukracharya is one of the best and strongest Acharya ever found in our history ...
Just like Ekalavya, Karna also went to Drone and was rejected by him. Leter he was killed by Arjuna by the Grace of lord Krishna. But people still remember him and praise him.
So even if Ekalavya would have been killed by Arjuna, the world would have remembered him had he become a good Archer. A justification can be given for every wrong deed but a better thing would be to admit the wrong done.
Hi Mishra ji,
Ekalavya was brave , doesnt mean that he was as brave as Arjuna or even Karna. The battle between Ekalavya and Arjuna might not have lasted even a minutes more. Drone planned to bring fame to Ekalavya by not allowing to fight & bring fame to karna by allowing to fight.
As per original Mahabharat, Drone refused to teach Karna coz he was not Kshtriya and he asked for Ekalavya's fingure coz he feared he could become better worrier than Arjuna. There is no mention that he did that coz he wanted to bring fame to them by any way.
Whatever we know about Drone is by the Mahabharat written by Vyas so if anyone is giving any other version of the story he should provide a reliable reference for the same.
It seems that your mentioned story is just based on the assumption that since drone was a teacher he could do no wrong.
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