Courtesy : Smt.Dr.Saroja Ramnujam
Bhagavat gita - a perusal
chapter 1- post 1
Panchajanyam Hrishikesah- Lord Krishna sounded his conch which was music to His followers but sounded the death knell to His foes. The one who played the flute in Brindavan enchanting the whole world with His music, blew His conch in Kurukshetra, stunning the Kaurava forces into silence.
Panchajanya the conch of the Lord, is pranavasvarupa, represents Omkaara, and hence synonymous with nadhabrahmam, as pranava, the syllable OM is the source of all sound. Om ityekaksharam brahma, Brahman the Absolute Reality synonymous with syllable OM, says the sruti. When the Lord touched the face of the boy Dhruva with the Panchajanya he became eloquent. Such was the power of Panchajanya.
At the outset of the Mahabharata war Lord Krishna blew His conch in response to the conch blown by Bhishma, who wanted to hearten Duryodhana as the latter was a bit jittery but not enough to make him see sense. This scene was described to the blind king Dhritarashtra by Sanjaya, his charioteer. Sanjaya had been invested with a divine vision by the sage Vyasa, which enabled him to visualize the battlefield as if on a TV screen
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