Every one knows that Guru Dronacharya had some mission on his mind while he took the charge to teach Pandavas and Kauravas. He wanted to take revenge from his friend Drupad. But while doing so he has done something which a Guru/Teacher should not supposed to do. To make Arjuna as the worlds best in Archery, he taken the biggest Gurudakshina from Eklavya.

My questions is what he did was right or wrong? Being a teacher how could he does this adharma? Please discuss it.

Every one knows that Guru Dronacharya had some mission on his mind while he took the charge to teach Pandavas and Kauravas. He wanted to take revenge from his friend Drupad. But while doing so he has done something which a Guru/Teacher should not supposed to do. To make Arjuna as the worlds best in Archery, he taken the biggest Gurudakshina from Eklavya.

My questions is what he did was right or wrong? Being a teacher how could he does this adharma? Please discuss it.

In today's context what Drona did was very unfair since he was robbing a talented person of what was due to him.But again we see such things happening even today in different ways of course ! Taking the time and the life style that existed those days I would think that , giving importance to royalty was considered a duty since the royal families took care of their wards and they should be shown as being tough or rather tougher and more talented than all others... Drona probably did what was expected of him but as Krishna said ' every action has a reaction, so in the end all the actions right and wrong beget similar reactions- a right for a right and a wrong for a wrong ! The way Mahabharat ends speaks for justice and this very rule of nature from which none of us can get away..

Everything is fair in war, as per great war of Mahabharat, the wishes of Lord Krishna exists, and the way he wanted to run the war, is testimony of different directions the war being fought, if Arjun was not secured from Ekalabya and later on Drona, might have been the war won by Kauravas, who are incidentally supporters of evils as the epic says.

Everything is fair in war, as per great war of Mahabharat, the wishes of Lord Krishna exists, and the way he wanted to run the war, is testimony of different directions the war being fought, if Arjun was not secured from Ekalabya and later on Drona, might have been the war won by Kauravas, who are incidentally supporters of evils as the epic says.

I fail to understand what was virtue or eveil in Mahabharat war. This was simply a land dispute or an internal family war. There is nothing on which there could be any public interest at large. The simple royal family war has been blown out of all proportion to sacred religious war or crusade or Jehad. Moreover, Mahabharata is just an epic and not history.

Everything is fair in war, as per great war of Mahabharat, the wishes of Lord Krishna exists, and the way he wanted to run the war, is testimony of different directions the war being fought, if Arjun was not secured from Ekalabya and later on Drona, might have been the war won by Kauravas, who are incidentally supporters of evils as the epic says.

I fail to understand what was virtue or eveil in Mahabharat war. This was simply a land dispute or an internal family war. There is nothing on which there could be any public interest at large. The simple royal family war has been blown out of all proportion to sacred religious war or crusade or Jehad. Moreover, Mahabharata is just an epic and not history.

Yes. Epic is an entirely different proposition. It cannot be History with so many additions and deletions with the time.

Everything is fair in war, as per great war of Mahabharat, the wishes of Lord Krishna exists, and the way he wanted to run the war, is testimony of different directions the war being fought, if Arjun was not secured from Ekalabya and later on Drona, might have been the war won by Kauravas, who are incidentally supporters of evils as the epic says.

I fail to understand what was virtue or eveil in Mahabharat war. This was simply a land dispute or an internal family war. There is nothing on which there could be any public interest at large. The simple royal family war has been blown out of all proportion to sacred religious war or crusade or Jehad. Moreover, Mahabharata is just an epic and not history.

Yes. Epic is an entirely different proposition. It cannot be History with so many additions and deletions with the time.

Thank you. Moreover, was there any greater pubic interest or was this simply a dispute on land or share of power in royal family? I feel this was simply a family dispute and so mahabharat war was not a crusade or dharmayudh.

Every one knows that Guru Dronacharya had some mission on his mind while he took the charge to teach Pandavas and Kauravas. He wanted to take revenge from his friend Drupad. But while doing so he has done something which a Guru/Teacher should not supposed to do. To make Arjuna as the worlds best in Archery, he taken the biggest Gurudakshina from Eklavya.

My questions is what he did was right or wrong? Being a teacher how could he does this adharma? Please discuss it.

In today's context what Drona did was very unfair since he was robbing a talented person of what was due to him.But again we see such things happening even today in different ways of course ! Taking the time and the life style that existed those days I would think that , giving importance to royalty was considered a duty since the royal families took care of their wards and they should be shown as being tough or rather tougher and more talented than all others... Drona probably did what was expected of him but as Krishna said ' every action has a reaction, so in the end all the actions right and wrong beget similar reactions- a right for a right and a wrong for a wrong ! The way Mahabharat ends speaks for justice and this very rule of nature from which none of us can get away..

Exactly..also we have to take note of the fact that Dronacharya stood by his given word , he had given word to Arjuna that he will make him the greatest archer in the world and it was within his dharma to remove all obstacles that lay in the way of Arjuna remaining the greatest archer in the world. Such things happen even today in different forms, different contexts too! And to err is only human, even if it a Dronacharya in the great epic or some humble person from the modern times.