With God on their side, the Pandavas naturally emerged victorious, the evil Kauravas being totally annihilated. When the means are pure and God is the goal, victory is assured – this is the message of the Kurukshetra war.

Unlike Rama, Krishna did occasionally reveal His Divinity, but by and large He very much lived like a normal person. Even when He invoked His Divine Powers, it was always for the benefit of others. Krishna was ever smiling, was always in a state of Divine Bliss, and constantly in the service of others.

Swami says that the main purpose of the Krishna Avatar was to bequeath to humanity the priceless gift of the Gita, and to tell man how he can earn the love of God. The simplest way is to get firmly attached (emotionally) to the Personal God, spend all of one’s time thinking about Him, and do everything as a loving offering for Him. God in turn will shower His Grace, protect, and confer all the blessings that one could ask for and also the blessings that one does not even know one should ask for!