The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgita -1.7. Swami Krishnananda
======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 08/10/2019 Chapter 1: The Plight of the Pandavas :- 7. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The external forces, the objective forces, are the Kauravas. The forces that are subjective may be likened to the Pandavas. So the Mahabharata is a war between the subject and the object. Now, what this object is, is also very difficult to explain. It may be a pencil; it may be a wristwatch; it may be one single item in this world that we may call an object. It may be one human being who may be in the position of an object. It may be a whole family, it may be an entire community, and it may be the whole human set-up, the entire mankind or the whole physical universe—it is an object in front of us. The irreconcilab