Know More About Bhima

He Never Violated the Words of Krishna

1.      Avatar of Mukhya Prana(Vayu), the next Brahma-in-line

2.      Amongst Pandavas, he represented “Jnana” or knowledge.

3.      He was extremely well-built, handsome, intelligent and righteous

4.      When he was very young, he slipped from his mother’s clutches and fell on the Shatha-shrunga mountain. The mountain broke into hundreds of pieces.

5.      In the Mahabharata, he was a main hero (apart from Lord Krishna, of course).

6.      He never violated the words of Krishna even once.

7.      In spite of his enormous strength and knowledge, he was the epitome of humility. In the Udyoga parva, when Lord Krishna collects the opinion of the Pandavas before approaching the Kauravas, Bhima is made to give a description of his own capabilities to everyone (by Krishna). At the end of Bhima’s narrative (which is overwhelming for any other warrior), Krishna tells him that his capability is actually 1000 times more than what he has mentioned!

8.      He was the first person to attack at the commencement of the Kurukshetra war. He was also the last person to engage in combat, having killed Duryodhana.

9.      The Mahabharata describes that when the war commenced, he gave such a fierce and loud roar that horses and elephants standing there passed out.

10.    During the wax palace episode, the minister in-charge appointed by Duryodhana to kill the Pandavas wanted to set fire to the palace when all the Pandavas were asleep. After six months, he went ahead with his plan anyways because he realized that Bhima never slept!

11.    During the war, he killed six out of eleven Akshouhinis fielded by the Kauravas.

12.    Before the war, during the forest exile of the Pandavas, Yudhishthira gives up hopes of any post-exile rule and comforts himself with forest life. He relents from the thought of war. Arjuna does the same just before the commencement of the war. Yudhishthira is brought back on track by Bhima’s advice. Lord Krishna does the same to Arjuna. Bhima, though, never once is confused about the necessity of war.

13.    Lord Bhima had 24 wives, 20 of whom were daughters of Vasudeva (father of Lord Krishna)!

14.    Out of the 5 Pandavas, the first to marry was not the older Yudhishthira, but Bhimasena, the second Pandava. He married Hidimbi, a Rakshasi, upon Sri Vyasa’s instructions, in accordance with his dharma of not violating the Lord’s words (Krishna/Vyasa/Parashurama) even once!

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