Bhagavad gita Chapter 1,verse 6 english and hindi poetic translation with lessons
In the fifth verse of chapter 1, we went through the listing out the names of powerful Pandava warriors who cheated Dronacharya and Kaurava kingdom by forming the pact with the enemies. Continuing from where he left on the previous verse, duryodhana list out the names of some more powerful Pandava warriors who had betrayed Kaurava Empire by joining the opponent forces.
Original Sanskrit verse
च्शुय्नमाधुय विक्रान्त उत्तमौजाश्च वीर्यवान्।
सौभद्रो द्रौपदेयाश्च सर्व एव महारथाः॥१-६॥
English Transliteration:
yudhamanyushcha vikraanta uttamaujaashcha veeryavan |
saubhadro draupadeyashcha sarva eva mahaarathaaha || 6 ||
English Translation:
There are the mighty Yudhamanyu, the very powerful Uttamauja, the son of subhadra and the sons of draupadi. All these warriors are great chariot fighters.
Word to word translation
veeryavaan: gallant
yudhmanya: Yudhamanyu
uttamaujaaha: Uttamaujaaha
saubhadraha: son of Subhadra - Abhimanyu
draupadeyaaha: sons of Draupadi
sarva, eva: everyone
maharaathaaha: mighty warriors
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My Hindi poetic translation
पराक्रमी युधामन्यु और उत्तमौजा जैसे अत्यन्त शक्तिशाली,
सुभद्रा तथा द्रोपदी के पुत्र - ये सभी हैं बलवीर महारथी ।
My English poetic translation
There are the powerful Uttamauja,
Yudhamanyu like gallant warriors
Sons of Draupadi and son of subhadra
All of these are mighty chariot fighters
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Lessons/message from this verse
This verse is again very similar to the previous two verses that glorify some of the immensely powerful warriors of the pandava army. Since all these verses are very similar except the names of warriors, learning’s from these verses are more or less the same. Therefore, all the morals of the previous two verses are applicable to this verse. Let us revise the morals we learnt in the previous two verses. They are as follows:
1) Praise enemy intelligence and heroic skills to coerce the warriors in your army burn in rage and revenge.
2) Praise the enemy to ensure your army doesn’t underestimate the enemy prowess
3) Even the strongest seek refuge of the powerful experienced warriors
4) Choose the name of your enemies carefully to invite strong response from your fighters
5) Never believe your close relatives and best friends blindly as they may cheat against you for supremacy and monetary benefits
6) Try and try again to convince your commander to fight on your side
7) Always keep yourself focused on your objective
For the detailed explanation of above morals along with its applicability to software industry, kindly go through this link
Additionally, I can point some more learning’s from this verse. To understand the morals correctly, let us first have a brief summary on all the warriors named in this verse.
Subhadra - Sister of Lord Krishna, her son ‘Abhimanyu’ was the youngest and most talented warrior of those times. He decided to enter the ‘Chakravyuha’ military formation even after knowing that he may not come back alive. He fought bravely and died a ferocious death after defeating veteran warriors like Dronarcharya and karna. His son ‘Pariksita’ later became the king of vibrant hastinapur kingdom.
Abhimanyu-the most talented warrior of his times
Yudhamanyu: Born in a royal Panchala kingdom, he was a valiant warrior whose main task was to assist arjuna in the war. His chief responsibility in the kurukshetra war was to protect arjuna troops from the kaurava warriors. In Mahabharata, He is exclusively mentioned as the guardian of arjuna who kept protecting and accompanying him till the end of the war. After the end of the war, he was killed deceptively by Ashwatthama in night time when he was sleeping serenely in the pandava camp.
Uttamauja: Brother of Yudhamanyu, he assisted Yudhamanyu in his role of guarding arjuna from Kaurava warriors. His primary responsibility was to protect the chariot wheels from getting destroyed from the powerful arrow blows of the Kaurava warriors. He fought with powerful Kaurava warriors like Angada, Dronacharya, Kripacharya, Karna etc.
Draupadeyah - Daughter of Panchal king ‘Drupad’, she was the shared wife of five pandava brothers. She had five sons- ‘Prativindhya’ from Yudhisthira, ‘Srutasoma’ from Bhima, ‘Srutakarma’ from Arjuna, ‘Satanika’ from Nakula and ‘Srutasena’ from Sahadeva. All of them were killed by Asvatthama after the end of the war when they were sleeping peacefully in the pandava camp. Asvatthama was sent by duryodhana to kill the five pandava brothers but he completely messed up to brutally assassinate the five Pandavas sons.
To understand the lessons of this verse, kindly note the below classification of warriors
Overall, Duryodhana mentions seventeen Pandava warriors in subsequent five verses of chapter 1. All these seventeen warriors were called as mighty-bowed as they had the skills to fire extremely powerful arrows from their mighty bows. Such mighty-bowed warriors are broadly classified in the order of their prowess as
eko dasa sahasrani yodhayed yas tu dhanvinam sastra-sastra-pravinas ca maharatha iti smrtah amitan yodhayed yas tu samprokto ‘tirathas tu sah caikena yo yudhyet tan-nyuno’rdha-rathah smrtah
Maha-ratha: He can fight alone with 11,000+ bowmen and remain undefeated.
Ati-ratha: He can fight alone with innumerable bowmen and remain unbeaten
Rathi: He can fight alone with 1,000+ ordinary warriors and remain undefeated
Try and try again to reach you goal
Over the last few verses, duryodhana kept calling out the names of great warriors of pandava army to instigate dronacharya but maintaining his patience, dronacharya was not agitated. When duryodhana finished listing out the names of all Maha-Rathas and seeing that his goal is not yet achieved, he started listing out the names of Ati-rathas to continue with his task of infuriating dronacharya. Additionally, he honored Pandava warriors with great qualities. For EX. Attribute vikrantah meaning ‘Heroic’ is honored to both Yudhamanyu and Uttamauja. Thus, He did not stop trying and pursued different tactics to agitate dronacharya. So the moral of this verse is “TRY ...TRY but DON’T CRY” till your task is complete.
How this point is applicable to software industry? (One example)
This moral can be used during appraisal. During appraisal, you should list out your achievements to convince manager to give a good rating and exceptional salary hike. If you feel that the manager is not convinced, you should try to assure him by bringing in more arguments and justification to support your claim. If he is still not satisfied, exaggerate your achievements and showcase on how you performed better than all other colleagues. Continue saying your exceptional qualities and great achievements as long as your manager is not tired of listening to your ‘emotional atyachar’ and makes up his mind of showering the salary hike and promotion you were looking for.
Appraisal jokes
Exaggerate the truth and mix up your words beautifully to accomplish your goal
By repeatedly mentioning the great archers cum chariot fighters of Pandava army, he tried to convey his inability to cut down the arrows shot by such warriors. He intentionally left out the names of five pandavas who were more skilled than the seventeen listed Maha-Ratha as the fame and mastery of the five Pandavas were known across the whole Aryavarta(Indian subcontinent). Duryodhana was afraid of losing to pandava warriors including the five pandavas and kept his hope on dronacharya to kill all such warriors. So, by using the word ‘sarve’ meaning ‘all’, Duryodhana intentionally called all warriors as maha-rathas despite of the fact that many of them were ati-rathas. He exaggerated the skills of Pandava warriors to instigate the fighting mood of Drona so that he single-handedly defeats all these seventeen Maha-Rathas.
How this point is applicable to software industry? (One example)
Already in previous point, I gave an example on exaggerating of truth for good appraisal. For this point, let us consider the very common exaggeration of truth executed wondrously by upper IT management to attract new clients. They often show the good statistics of their company and hide the bitter truth of their company to attract shareholders, client, employees, investors, partners etc. To attract new projects or new clients, upper management would boast high on successful projects but would avoid revealing any detail on failed projects. They would overstate several facts like use of latest technologies and tools despite of the fact that they might not even be aware of the latest technologies and tools used in their field. They would inflate their profits, projects, revenues etc to allure fidelity and trust of the clients, shareholder and investors. For EX: Consider the case of “Satyam computers” where the management fooled all the investors and shareholders by overstating their revenues and profits. Management would do anything to bring profit to the company. Such an act of upper management is very crucial for the cumulative growth of the company but sometimes, they just cross the limits of exaggeration.
Satyam Computers (India four largest software exporter of its era) fraud case
Shoot one arrow to achieve three goals
Since duryodhana was insulted in Draupadi marriage ceremony where he was very confident of winning draupadi as his lawfully wedded wife and given the fact that after the marriage with the five pandavas, draupadi insulted duryodhana many times in their daily affairs, Duryodhana dislike draupadi very much. Out of his immense dislike, he pointed out the five sons of draupadi so that dronacharya do not miss the opportunity to exterminate the five pandava sons whenever he gets the chance to do so. Therfore, by naming the five sons of Pandavas, he shot three goals with one arrow. They are:
1) Avenge the insult sparked off by draupadi
2) Take revenge of enmity and mutual conflict with the Pandavas
3) Remove the obstacles that lies in the path of winning this war
How this point is applicable to software industry? (One example)
In annual presentation of any software company especially during the downtimes, management would highlight their lower performance compared to performance of other major IT companies. Presentation may have many statements where they would strike three or more goals with a single statement. For EX: Consider the following point “Continuous lower revenues and profit margins fir few more quarters may force the management o take some tough actions.” I can draw out four major messages from this single point of the management. They are
1) Lower profits may force the management to terminate less skilled employees. Termination of employees would give company some extra margin in profits.
2) Employees need to perform well and work extra hard to keep their job in the company. This would result in extra output and thus extra profit at the same cost to the company.
3) Less skilled employees would switch to some other job or company. This is good to the company as it is in their best interests to not retain non-profitable employees and employees’ leaving on their own is better than firing employees as the latter brings bad name and reputation to the company.
4) Don’t expect good salary hike and promotion this year.
Salary hike jokes
Conclusion:
Thus, in this article, we saw the various spiritual messages and vital philosophical lessons in chapter 1, verse 6 of bhagavad gita. In next article, I will write on various lessons and several spiritual messages from chapter 1, verse 7 of bhagavad gita
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