Passage 9

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In plain words

Dharmarāja, the embodiment of Satya and Dharma, is the Ātma. Our Ātma must go on living in Satya and Dharma. The power of … is Draupadī. Bhīma is the one joined with the power of the wind. That is strength, will … . Arjuna is the antaḥkaraṇa. Inner vision. Arjuna means purity. That is why … the antaḥkaraṇa must be pure. Many great souls have gone on … in that same way. The one who stayed as that purity is Arjuna. Nakula and Sahadeva are the outer senses, the …ner senses. The organs of action and the organs of knowing. So Draupadī … with the five Pāṇḍavas is our body. Our body is the five Pāṇḍavas. If one goes by the right path, the victory is … .

The Kauravas were a hundred, but not one of them … alive. But as these five went on carrying out their own duties, … the lives of the five Pāṇḍavas stood safe and sound. So that became the reason for their achieving this … . They … , keeping God before them in everything. Long ago, when Arjuna and Duryodhana went to Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa divided what was His into two parts. All the worldly powers on one side. He alone on the … side. If we understand its inner meaning well, this whole world is one thing, and … is another. Say, how great He is! This whole world is there as quantity. But God stood as quality. He asked Duryodhana, ‘Well, do you want the army, do you want the worldly powers, or do you want Me?’ ‘Kṛṣṇa, what use is it to me if You come alone? I want the army,’ he said. Gently He came to Arjuna: ‘Arjuna, Duryodhana has taken the compartments; you take the engine and go,’ He said. What use is it to have compartments without an engine? I am the engine. It cannot move; and even at such a time, he wanted Kṛṣṇa alone. In the forest they said, ‘Kṛṣṇa, friend in danger, You alone are our protector.’ And he said, ‘You sit in front; I will sit behind.’ Keeping God in front, they walked on behind. That is exactly why victory came to them. The Kauravas were not like that. Our army, our wealth, the strength of our arms, the strength of our soldiers: we are a lakh strong. Saying, ‘My strength alone is strength,’ they put Kṛṣṇa behind. For the Pāṇḍavas, Kṛṣṇa, God, came 1st. This is the inner meaning of the Bhārata.