ย https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljzJAMZQCLo
The Kauravas and the Pandavas belong to the lunar dynasty that was initiated by the legendary Pururavas, son of Mercury (the planet controlling wisdom) and Ila (wife of Manu, the power of intuition). The legendary king is given the charge of earth and he does help Indra win the battle between the titans and the gods). That’s when destiny brings him in contact with the heavenly Urvashi whom he saves from the demon Keshi. The two fall in love and are married. But the condition is that the day Pururavas sees her in utter nudity she will have to return to heaven.
Pururavas is deep in love and after a long inner journey is able to secure the boon of forever happiness in the heavens with Urvashi. The Divine Mother reminds him of his task of governing the earth which is the chosen place for the heroic souls. But Pururavas choses heaven instead. That’s when the Divine Mother grants him his chosen boon but cautions about the consequences.
‘Thou then hast failed, bright soul; but God blames not
Nor punishes. Impartially he deals
To every strenuous spirit its chosen reward.
And since no work, however maimed, no smallest
Energy added to the mighty sum
Of action fails of its exact result,
Empire shall in thy line and forceful brain
Persist, the boundless impulse towards rule
Of grandiose souls perpetually recur,
And minds immense and personalities
With battle and with passion and with storm
Shall burn through Aryan history, the speech
Of ages. In thy line the Spirit Supreme
Shall bound existence with one human form;
In Mathura and ocean Dwarca Man
Earthly perfectibility of soul
Example: son of thy line and eulogist,
The vast clear poet of the golden verse,
Whose song shall be as wide as is the world.
But all by huge self-will or violence marred
Of passionate uncontrol; if pure, their work
By touch of later turbulent hands unsphered
Or fames by legend stained. Upon my heights
Breathing God’s air, strong as the sky and pure,
Dwell only Ixvaacou’s children; destined theirs
Heaven’s perfect praise, earth’s sole unequalled song.
But thou, O Ila’s son, take up thy joy.
For thee in sweet Gundhurva world eternal
Rapture and clasp unloosed of Urvasie,
Till the long night when God asleep shall fall.”
Ceased the great voice and strong Pururavus
Glad of his high reward, however dearly
Purchased, purchased with infinite downfall,
With footing now divine went up the world.’
If we see the lineage it is always a fractured lineage unlike the Suryavanshi kings to which Lord Rama belongs. The Pandavas and the Kauravas ard the extreme results of this fracture when Sri Krishna comes and ultimately closes the line that places personal joys and ambition over the greater work upon Earth.
This of course is the shortest version without going into all the details.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
