1. Barbarika, better known as Khatu Shayam Ji today is a mystic hero of epic Mahabharta.
2. He is known as 'Teen Baan Dhaari' because he was blessed with three arrows that would every time come back in his quiver after having hit the enemy.
3. Grandson of Bheem and son of Ghatotkach through his wife Naga princess Marvi, who later came to be known as Ehlawati, Barbrika was an invincible warrior.
4. His mother had blessed him and advised him to always help the loosing side. A champion of the underdogs, he was bound to help kaurvas at the end as they were bound to lose the war through their unwise, greedy and unjust policies.
5. Krishna saw through this and in the form of a brahmin asked this invincible warrior for charity.
6. When enquired by Khatu Shyam ji as to what the brahmin desired, Krishna asked him to pierce all the leaves of a peepal tree after having concealed one leave under his feet. This was a child's play for the young warrior but to his surprise his arrow after having pierced all the leaves on the tree started going around the brahmin as a leave was concealed under one of his feet.
7. Barbrika immediately realised that the brahmin was not an ordinary one and requested him to reveal him self.
8. At this Naryan revealed him self and his purpose. Thats when Krishna asked him to fight for the Pandvas. The young man replied that as per his word to his mother he shall fight only for the losing side.
9. Trikaal darshi Naryana at this asked Barbrika that in that case he should sacrifice his head as the battle requires the sacrifice of a great warrior before it gets rolling. Seeing Narayan him self asking , Barbrika readily agreed.
10. He cut his head and gave it to Lord krishna but also asked him a boon that after being cut, his head be placed at the highest point in Battle ground and he be blessed to see the complete battle.
11. "So it shall be", said Krishna and also blessed Barbrika that in Kalyuga he shall be revered as god and any looser will win back his losses if he prays to or meditates upon Barbrika.
12. Today Barbrika is known as Khatu Shayam Ji and is a powerful wish fulfilling deity for the pure hearted.
13. At the end of the battle of Mahabharta when the contemplative exercise of who did what , and who was right or who was wrong was being carried out, Krishna advised all present to seek these answers from Barbrika's head.
14. They went to where the head was placed and after paying due regards asked as to what did the great Selfless warrior, who out of devotion to dharma made the sacrifice see.
15. He replied.................. "All that I saw was Krishna as Naryana cutting the heads of millions of enemy warriors and Draupdi as Kali drinking their blood. It was only a drama managed by Narayan and his Maya to teach this world some lessons to cleanse the evil in human mind" . Maharishi Vedvyaas ji is famous for hiding great esoteric truths in his stories, the truth hidden here is that all the world that we see around us is nothing but a play betwen Maya/Illusion and eternal Consciousness, which can only be actually seen by an awakened consciousness. Maya is represented here by Kali/Draupadi, Eternal Consciousness is represented by Krishna/God, and the awakened soul is represented by Barbrika. The red ribbon around Barbrika's neck signifies sacrifice, or blood flowing from a willingly severed neck, as concious surrender, flowing towards Eternal Truth/Shiva/Kaarak Action/ Karma here, let's call it Krishna for our ease of understanding , the eternal as suggested by Maharishi V.V .Ji, and, Maya/Kali/illusion/Shakti/Kaaran/Cause, here, which we may call Draupadi for our ease of understanding, as suggested by Gurudev, but the concious realisation of great truth and great illusion within the unison is what matters here, and it is thus the grand gyaan Yoga, without which, all bhakti yoga is nothing more than a sham or a hypocrisy.
16. This painting by me, shows Barbrika's head on a hill representing a great yogi, watching the game of death played by Krishna and Kali symbolically represented here by a peacock Feather and the eyes of Mother Kali.......................
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©✒Guru Balwant Gurunay.⚔
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