No Victory without violations

I was so attracted to the Kshatriya race and the traditions followed by them. Ever since i started reading Mahabharata, The principles they follow amaze me a lot. Even though there were many notable things there were certain things which is nagging me. I met no one so far who could clarify me those nags. It was told in mahabharata that Yudistira the just, meaning that he is well known for his judgements and he will not slip from justice. There were two scenarios which is nagging me in this aspect. First, Yudistira would never have been victorious if it wasn't for his lies which took the life of drona and secondly when kunti was feeding poison for the nisadha mother and children at varanavratha, what was his justice doing at that time.

There could be many number of reasons why they should die, but the way they have died in the hands of kunti and pandavas were not justified and yet he was called yudistira the just. It was also called that Arjuna the victorious warrior ever in the field of battle field. Why then he was not able to defeat Bhisma without the help of shikandin. He also attacked a person who has dropped his weapon. As far my knowledge it is not been considered as the qualities of kshatriya. Not only that he also killed two other persons in the war without following the dharma definied for kshatriya (viz. karna and Burisravas). Though it was satyaki who killed burisravas in the battle field, it was arjuna who first cut his hand when he is not fighting with him.

Reading further, when karna spared yudistira his life, he was angry at arjuna for not killing karna. But when Dhuriyodhana was saved by Yudistira during their gandarvas attack. He resolved to cast away his life rather than angering towards yudistira. Even he would not have been victorious if not for his lies which caused drona to cast away his life. Considering all these facts, as Balarama said that just because of one bad quality (extremely bad) you are not considering the good qualities residing in him. where as the Pandavas were never spoken about their bad qualities which is on the other extreme near to good.

Not only in Mahabharata, even in ramayana, Rama defeated valli without following the war rules. if it weren't that incidence Rama would never have gained the vanara troops and we may never know whether rama would have succeeded in his quest.He sent sita away upon hearing the words of his people. He also claims it as Raj Neethi. But doesn't that mean that he has slipped his justice for an women. again people started tales about the incident, there could be hell lot of reasons we may never know but with the revealed info so far, it occurs to me that there is no victory without small violations.

The same thing is what happening in the present world and present raaj neethi and only difference is that now people are exploring new ways to justify themselves and always try to be victorious by violating everything. if the same continues there will come a day where violation is the one and only source of survival and when such time comes we may never know that it was start of Armageddon