Wisdom Munches 12: From heir to spare: Origin of Duryodhana’s envy
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thank you and we look at the story Duryodhana had understandable grievances he was expected to be the next king and then the Pandavas came back and the Pandavas came back then suddenly his position became insecure in these systems in the royalty the person from the next generation who is expected to be the king is called the heir h-e-i-r, heir and then many times a king would want to make sure that there is some successor the king would try to have more than one children so there would be one heir and there would be another spare so if something happens to the heir then the spare is there so what happened was the spare’s position is very insecure who doesn’t want to be the king but do you want the heir to die so that you become the king hell no, the spare should be the well wisher of the heir so Duryodhana was the heir and then when the Pandavas came back Yudhishthir happened to be older than him so he suddenly started thinking, have I become the spare now so his concerns were understandable now Yudhishthir never claimed that he should have the full kingdom now it was understood that they are also princes they should also have some kingdom and there could have been an amicable division of the kingdom but Duryodhana’s insecurity which is again understandable that got the better of him now he is born in a royal family he wants to be the king, that’s fair enough so motivation, I want to be a king I want to have a kingdom but what about the morality he decided that when he was basically just a teenager that is the time he came up with a whole conspiracy to poison Bhima he thought Bhima is the most dangerous person among them because Bhima was physically his equal or even slight superior in prowess so he decided that I will eliminate him this is a deadly thing to try to do the Pandavas came back from the forest because their father had passed away and the sages in the forest said that you are all young children and your mother is the only guardian for you now so that forest is filled with dangerous animals you can’t stay there it’s safer to be in the kingdom little did the sages who brought them back to the kingdom know that in the palace