Jarasandha : in Mahabharata, king of Magadha. His father Bŗihadratha gave this name to him because he, having originally been born in two halves to his two queens & so thrown away, had been put together by the Rākshasi Jarā. He besieged Mathurā eighteen times & attacked Krishna who had killed Kansa, the husband of two of his daughters. He was later killed by Bhīma.
... nothing to do with manifesting the Divine. At that rate Rama would be undivine because he followed the Mayamriga as if it were a natural deer and Krishna would be undivine because he was forced by Jarasandha to take refuge Page 474 in distant Dwaraka. These human ideas are false. The Divinity acts according to another consciousness—the consciousness of the Truth above and the Lila below ...
... he failed to heal in a certain district (I forget the name) because people had no faith (faith being one of the conditions imposed on his work) or when Krishna after fighting eighteen battles with Jarasandha failed to prevail against him and had to run away from Mathura. Why the immortal Hell should the Divine be tied down to succeed in all his operations? What if failure suits him better and serves ...
... failed to heal in a certain district (I forget the name) because people had no faith (faith being one of the conditions imposed for his working) or when Krishna after fighting eighteen battles with Jarasandha 54 failed to prevail against him and had to run away from Mathura. Why the immortal Hell should the Divine be tied down to succeed in all his operations? What if failure suits him better and ...
... a parading of one's capacity or virtue, was the work to be done and its success. He would cite the example of Sri Krishna in the Mahabharata story; Sri Krishna had no intention of being caught by Jarasandha and he fled to Dwarka in order to make ready for the adversary. That is why Sri Aurobindo did not consider a retreat to be a bad thing always. "We live to fight another day": this should be the motto ...
... when the governing chivalry, the Kshatriya caste, in its pride of strength was asserting its own code of morals as the one rule of conduct. We may note the plain assertion of this stand-point by Jarasandha in the Mahabharata and Valmiki's emphatic and repeated protest against it through the mouth of Rama. This ethical code was like all aristocratic codes of conduct full of high chivalry and the spirit ...
... necessary to veil his consciousness so that the work may be done, the Avatar does it or rather the Divine in the Avatar does it. The other thing is also quite possible. Krishna could have killed Jarasandha as he did Kansa. Why did he not do it instead of fighting eighteen unprofitable battles, running away to Dwarka, and then getting J killed by others? About the wrath of the sannyasis, I also meant ...
... parading of one's capacity or virtue, was the work to be done and its success. He would cite the example of Sri Krishna in the Mahabharata story; Sri Krishna had no intention of being caught by Jarasandha and he fled to Dwarka in order to make ready for the adversary. That is why Sri Aurobindo did not consider a retreat to be a bad thing always. "We live to fight another day": this should be the ...
... The discussion between the brothers and Krishna regarding the desirability of the Rajasuya Sacrifice is very revealing on an intellectual and political level.* In the later conversation with Jarasandha, some lines at least stand out: Is there a man in all the world whose mind Like thine is violent, like thine is blind?... For what is Indra's heaven, what Paradise? heaven in ...
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