change in life and in her case she got forced to marry the five brothers. This sudden and unexpected change in her life made her unhappy. She questioned this and resented why it had to happen to her. She did not desire it, she did not want it. So why did it happen? One day Krishna arrived at her place and she put the fault on to Him. She felt it was Krishna who desired it. She knew Krishna as God. So she asked Krishna why He desired this to happen, that she had to marry five husbands. Sometimes when we do not understand why we suffer we generally put the blame on God. We say this is my fate or this is what God wants, what can I do? We never realize as we forget easily, that it is we who on some previous occasion created the cause that brought this effect now. Krishna rightly did not accept the blame put on Him. He said Draupadi you forgot something. Krishna then gave her a flashback of her past life where she saw that she was worshipping Lord Shiva very fervently. When Shiva pleased with her austerities gave her darshana ( appeared before her) and asked her to make a request for any boon she may desire. She desired a husband who had to have five qualities. She died early in that life and this desire could not be satisfied in that life. So that desire was getting satisfied in this life. Since no man with all those five qualities was found so as the next best alternative she got five husbands who each had one of the qualities. So Draupadi understood that it was her own immature desire that brought on to her this effect in this life. Thereafter, she was at peace with herself and she served the five husbands so well that never any jealousy sprang up in the minds of the brothers. Draupadi is one of the most admired and respected lady in Indian culture. 

In time, when Dhritarashtra became old and wanted to retire to the forest to spend the later part of his life there the dispute between the Kurus and Pandus over the rulership of the kingdom reached a climax. Dhritarashtra knew he had to give the kingdom to Yudhisthira the eldest son of his brother Pandu. He resented this idea. He felt he was rejected from being the king because he was blind why should now his son be rejected. He therefore thought that his son deserves to be the king. In ancient India the property of a father was never divided equally between his children like the present system developed in the west. India was an agricultural land so dividing the land would lead to less and less productivity. The land was therefore, given generally to the eldest son or just in case the eldest happens to be undeserving then it was given to the most deserving son. The king's duty was to give the kingdom to the eldest son or to the most suitable candidate available. In this case Yudhisthira the eldest of the cousin brothers was also the most deserving. The king therefore, got involved in a conflict of duty. His duty as a king demanded that the kingdom be given to Yudhisthira the most deserving but he wanted as a father to give the kingdom to his eldest son. He decided on an alternative and divided the kingdom in two parts and gave one part to his children and the other part to the children of his brother. Although wrong, it was still a wise solution. Duryodhana the son was however not happy with this. He desired the whole kingdom. As time passed the five brothers being good rulers their kingdom expanded. This developed anger and jealousy in the heart of the hundred brothers. They time and again planned to destroy the five brothers but always failed. They finally concocted a cunning scheme, a fraudulent game of dice. Through a clever plot hatched by Duryodhana and his wicked uncle Shakuni who was an adept in trickery and deceit, Yudhisthira was defeated in throw after throw, finally losing his kingdom, then himself and his brothers, and then their