Deliverance of Jagai and Madhai

Dadi: "Guddu, you know the Mahabharata is full of questions, right?"

Guddu: "It's definitely complicated!"

Dadi: "One of the saddest moments is when Draupadi's five sons - brave warriors, children of the Pandavas - are killed in their sleep. Have you ever wondered why that happened?"

Guddu: "That was by Ashwatthama, right? After the war ended?"

Dadi: "Yes. But the sages had a deeper explanation. They said those boys weren't just random victims - they were paying off an ancient debt."

Guddu: "What debt? They were just children during the war!"

Dadi: "Not in their previous lives. Let me tell you. The sage Markandeya was asked this very question: "Why were these brave boys, protected by Krishna himself, killed so helplessly?""

Guddu: "What was his answer?"

Dadi: "He said to ask the four wise birds at Vindhyachala mountain! Strange answer, right?"

Guddu: "Birds answering questions about the Mahabharata?"

Dadi: "These weren't ordinary birds. They were sages themselves, transformed by a curse. And they revealed the secret."

Long ago, in the time of King Harishchandra, there was a powerful sage named Vishwamitra who was doing intense meditation in the forest.

Guddu: "The same Vishwamitra from Ramayana?"

Dadi: "The same! Now, Harishchandra was hunting nearby when he heard cries for help - "Save me! Save me!" He rushed toward the sound."

Guddu: "Was someone in danger?"

Dadi: "It was an illusion! A demon called Vighnaraja - the lord of obstacles - had created the sounds. And when the king got close to Vishwamitra's meditation spot, the demon entered his body!"

Guddu: "Possessed!"

Dadi: "Exactly. Under the demon's influence, Harishchandra started screaming insults at Vishwamitra. The sage's concentration was shattered. His decades of accumulated spiritual power - gone in an instant!"

Guddu: "That's awful!"

Dadi: "Five divine beings called the Vishwa Devas - guardians of the five directions - saw what happened. They condemned Vishwamitra: "Your anger destroyed knowledge that could have helped the world!""

Guddu: "That was brave of them."

Dadi: "Brave but risky. The enraged Vishwamitra cursed THEM: "Since you've criticized me, go be born as humans!""

Guddu: "Oh no!"

Dadi: "The five devas were terrified. They begged for mercy. Vishwamitra softened a little: "Fine. You'll be born as humans, but you'll have no attachments. You'll remain unmarried. And you'll return to heaven quickly.""

Guddu: "Wait... five divine beings, born as humans with no attachments..."

Dadi: "You're connecting the dots! Those five Vishwa Devas were born as the five sons of Draupadi - each fathered by a different Pandava."

Guddu: "Prativindhya, Sutasoma, Srutakarma, Satanika, and Srutasena?"

Dadi: "You know your Mahabharata! Yes. They were warriors, but they had no families of their own. They fought bravely, but their fate was sealed by that ancient curse."

Guddu: "So when Ashwatthama killed them in their sleep..."

Dadi: "It was the universe completing the cycle. Their human births ended, and they returned to heaven as divine beings once more."

Guddu: "That's so tragic but also... makes a weird kind of sense?"

Dadi: "Karma works in mysterious ways, beta. Those boys weren't victims of random violence. Their souls had a journey to complete. Ashwatthama was just the instrument."

Guddu: "But Ashwatthama still did a terrible thing!"

Dadi: "Absolutely. He paid terribly for it too - cursed to wander the earth in agony for thousands of years. His crime was still his crime, regardless of the cosmic plan behind it."

Guddu: "So everyone answers for their own actions?"

Dadi: "Always. The Vishwa Devas answered for interrupting a sage. Ashwatthama answered for killing sleeping boys. Everyone carries their own karma."

Guddu: "These stories are like puzzle pieces that fit together."

Dadi: "The whole universe is one great puzzle, beta. We just see tiny pieces of it."