An Employee with Five Bosses
In the Mahabharata, Draupati had five husbands, the Pandavas. Arjun, one of the Pandavas, won the hands of Draupati in the competition of archery. Draupati`s exaltation had not bound, because she was going to be the wife of the most valiant and vigor archer and warrior in the world at that time. Later, she realized that she is not the wife of one husband but five husbands, the Pandavas. She was aghast, and in this indignation, she remonstrated lord Krishna. Lord Krishna pacified her, saying, do not blame anyone, if you want to blame someone…., blame yourself. You got exactly what you wanted to get. Lord Krishna elucidated …. In your previous life, you did a severe penance to lord Shiva and had asked for a husband with fourteen distinct qualities. Getting those fourteen qualities, what you had asked for, in a man in this mortal world is not possible at all. That`s why, you got five husbands, who, all together, possess those fourteen qualities. She understood, ...