Passage 15

In English

The moment one gets pride and develops ego, it is natural that a situation develops where he forgets even the human nature. It is common experience that when we ride in a car the owner does not get down first but some assistant first opens the door for the owner to come down. Following this practice, would not get down from the chariot first. He had an idea that the charioteer should first get down and open the door for him and then only he wanted to get down with great pride. But, addressed as his brother-in- law and asked him to first get down and go inside. did not listen to this. had the quality of being stubborn on certain occasions. He felt that should first get down and then he would get down. However, a little later, he realised that it would be unwise to enter into argument with , especially when the war was still going on. Hence, he got down from the chariot and went inside. But, insisted on his going further into the house. After went inside, jumped down in an instant and immediately thereafter the whole chariot burnt down and was reduced to ashes. When asked for the reason, explained that all the weapons that were used that day in the war were deadly and were full of fire power and that He had to keep them under control until then by putting them under His feet. He also disclosed that if He were to get down earlier, would have been burnt along with the chariot. He said that in order to protect , he had waited until got down and then jumped out in a moment.