A Summary of the Srimad Bhagavata Maha Puranam: 7.4 - Swami Krishnananda
========================================================== Wednesday 19, November 2025 18:40. A Summary of the Srimad Bhagavata Maha Puranam Discourse 7: Discourse 7: Sri Krishna's Kurukshetra Lila - 4. Swami Krishnananda. ======================================================================================================= In the Artha Shastra, which was the political science of the day, there are four ways prescribed to approach a contending party: sama, dana, bheda and danda. We do not suddenly attack the enemy, even if we despise them. We always try to pacify and calm them, and plead for proper sense to prevail in the mind of the enemy, saying that it is not good to have war—neither is it good for them, nor is it good for us, because it will end in mutual destruction. From that point of view, Sri Krishna told the Pandavas' Yudhishthira, “The earlier messengers that you sent have not brought any good results. It was only an exchange of ideas from both sides, but nothing ma...