Abhimanyu picked up a chariot wheel and fought with that. You are not supposed to kill an unarmed person, but the Kauravas thought, “Even if he is just 17 years of age, he causes too much devastation.” They felt they must put an end to Abhimanyu and attacked him. In the middle of the chakravyuha, with no one else to support him, he killed many key people of the Kaurava army. Bhima and Yudhisthira tried to follow him to save him, but when Abhimanyu went into the center, immediately, the chakravyuha closed again. Many years later, when the Kaurava army formed itself into a chakravyuha and was about to slaughter the whole Pandava army, Abhimanyu, 17 years of age but already a great hero, broke like a furious arrow through the chakravyuha, because he knew how to penetrate it. But Arjuna did not talk about how to come out of the chakravyuha. When his wife Subhadra was pregnant with Abhimanyu, Arjuna spoke in the presence of his unborn son about how to penetrate a chakravyuha, and even in his mother’s womb, Abhimanyu grasped it. Arjuna used to be the only one of the Pandavas who had this knowledge. One such formation, called chakravyuha, was almost impossible to penetrate, unless you knew its intricacies. There were intricate strategic formations in which the warriors fought. Sadhguru: What Krishna did in the battlefield was not just deceit – it was absolute treachery.
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