Vedic Siksha

Guru Dronacharya spiritual master of Kuru (Pandwas and Kaurvas) were always glorifying Arjuna about his focus and his energy in the right direction and being a good disciple in His Gurkul. But Duryodhana felt jealous of Arjuna and his talent. Once Duryodhana came to Dronacharya and started accusing him of favoring Arjuna and ignoring the rest. To prove him wrong, Dronacharya placed a wooden bird on a branch and decided to put everyone through a simple test. He gathered all his disciples and asked them to strike the eye of the wooden bird. But before doing this, he asked each one of them a question. He first called and asked Yudhisthira, "What do you see there?" Yudhishthira replied, "I see a wooden bird, the branch and the tree, the leaves moving and other birds." Everyone else who followed also mentioned the same thing i.e tree, branch, bird, leaves etc. and Dronacharya asked them all to keep your bow & arrow down. When it was Arjuna's turn, he...